To apply for an SES position, You'll need to include the following in your SES resume:

Announcement number, and title and grade to which you're applying.

Personal Information, including: full name, mailing address, home phone, cell phone and work phone numbers, e-mail address, Social Security number, citizenship (most federal jobs require US citizenship), veterans preference, highest federal civilian grade held (job series and dates held) and a professional summary written in the third person.

A thorough and detailed Work Experience, including each job title (include series and grade if a federal job, or level in military if a veteran), Your employer's names and address, your supervisors
name and phone number, beginning and ending dates (month and year) (note: some formats require month, date and year), hours per week, salary, duties and accomplishments.

Education, including colleges and universities name,and addresses, your major plus type and year of any degrees received, GPA, total credits and types of credits earned. Also include your High school. Including date of your diploma or GED, high school name, city, state and zip code.

Other Qualifications, including job-related training courses - title, date, course duration and certifications. Also include licenses (include Secret or Top Secret clearance here), job-related skills (languages, computer skills, tools, machinery, typing speed ), job-related honors, awards, and special accomplishments.
Include memberships in professional or honor societies, leadership activities and any public speaking and/or performance awards).

At the core of the SES Resume, the evaluation and the final determinations are the ECQ's (The Executive Core Qualifications).

These describe the leadership skills needed to succeed in the SES. There are five fundamental (ECQ's) Executive Core Qualifications. The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and potential-not technical expertise.

They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions.

The five fundamental ECQ's of the ses resume are:

* ECQ 1 Leading Change
* ECQ 2 Leading People
* ECQ 3 Results Driven
* ECQ 4 Business Acumen
* ECQ 5 Building coalitions

Successful performance in the SES (Senior Executive Service) requires competence in each ECQ listed. The ECQs are dependent on each other, they build on one another; successful executives bring competence in all five when providing service to the Nation.

Along with the SES Resume the ECQ questions must be written in such a way that your competence in each area and your ability to use these skills is shown clearly and succinctly.

You must not falter here or be weak. They (the Ecq's) must communicate strongly and effectively throughout the Federal SES Resume as to how and why you are qualified to be fill a leadership role in the Federal Government.

Did you know that your SES Resume package must describe, in detail and completely focused,exactly how your experience fits into the SES competencies?

Your ECQ's and SES resume must be superior in quality for you to be interviewed for
a Federal Government Senior Executive Position.

Winning over a Federal Qualification Board is no easy trick. Experience in the process, knowledge of Federal Resume requirements and superior craftsmanship in constructing the SES resume and ECQ/PTQ statements that are part of your application are what is needed in order to succeed.

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Federal Government law requires that the Executive qualifications for each new appointee to the Senior Executive Service (SES) be certified by an Independent Qualifications Review Board.

The Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ's) portion of the SES resume, detail the leadership skills a new appointee will need in order to succeed in the SES.

They also reinforce in the minds of the Review Board that the appointee will in fact forward and enhance an SES "corporate culture" within the Federal Government.

The Qualifications Review Board is looking for Individuals who will provide results driven strategic leadership and whose commitment to public service is senior to their personal profession or position within the government.

Qualifications Review Boards (QRB's) are convened in order to provide an independent review of applications for initial career appointees to the Senior Executive Service.

Board members review each application to decide if the candidate's experience matches the requirements of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ's) portion of the Federal Ses Resume. The QRB only reviews the candidates qualifications within the scope of the ECQ's not any other criteria.

The stringency of the SES candidate review process for a federal government job is high, as it should be. One's commitment level when seeking Federal employment is and should be of the highest order and everything in the candidate's application process from SES resume to acceptance of an offer if tendered, must reflect this.

I feel it is the duty of every applicant for the Senior Executive Service to conduct themselves in a professional manner in all aspects of their career including the application process. Therefore I recommend the use of experienced professional federal resume writers when seeking federal government employment. It is important and demonstrates a dedicated attitude.

1. Make your emphasis leadership rather than managerial or technical. They are all important, but leadership is significantly more so

2. Demonstrate your skills and experience in all 5 of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ's).

3.Stick to the Challenge-Context-Action-Result model.

4. Your ECQ's should contain specific, job-related experiences with detailed accomplishments.

5. Your statements should show the Leadership Competencies basic to each Statement.

6. Never address an ECQ by referring the reader to other parts of your application. Each question must be answered thoroughly itself.

7. Do not use the same example for more than one statement.

9. Don't just "list" your actions without putting them into context and noting the accomplishments.

10. Focus your vision on the organization not your personal goals.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Lee Iacocca