Career Upgrade
The Former FedBreak into AI and tech with strategies that helped former feds land roles at Amazon, Anduril, Google, Onebrief, Palantir, SpaceX, Umbra and other unicorns.
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How to level up your networking
You’re reaching out. Scheduling coffees and calls. And after months, you still have nothing.
Stop blaming yourself. Your system is broken.
Most aspiring former feds track the wrong metrics in the wrong way. You reach out when you think of...
Different Terms
The first post-USG job out is rarely the last one. The market will take you in directions you won’t expect or prefer, even. Pay attention to why. Maybe your emotions are wrong. So hone your instincts.
A contact or your subject-matter exper...
The Holding Pattern
Getting the first private-sector role is what many former feds focus on. Fair enough. After all, if you never leave USG employ, what’s the point?
But another worthy effort can arise when six months later you realize the role you landed pro...
Unfiltered Musings
I wanted to share a few recurring thoughts about the transition out of USG. No big thesis or five-step framework. Just topics I keep coming back to.
Unhelpful job reposting
Isn’t it amazing how some formers love to list job openings the...
Do You Have a Plan?
During my nearly two decades in USG, the GS structure did my career planning for me. Grades, steps, time-in-grade, the promotion panel, those illustrious seniors who surely had it all figured out. I moved through the system like everyone el...
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I help ambitious professionals break into AI, even without a tech background. Follow the same strategy that landed roles for former feds at Amazon, Anduril, Google, Onebrief, Palantir, SpaceX, Umbra and other unicorns.
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