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Guest Post: Stop Searching for Your Government Job Title
Today we have an insightful guest post from Ansel Stein
One of the hardest questions when leaving government is also one of the most basic:
What should I search for?
If you were an intelligence analyst, you search for intelligence jobs....
As part of your five-year career plan, include 30-day market test.
Too many aspiring former feds stay frozen because they believe they can only take concrete action after first identifying the perfect second career. Even though all of you have been saying “perfect is the enemy of the good” since your secon...
Cross-Functional Is Cash
Former feds often interpret cross-functional work as coordination. Tech employers use it to describe change management, operational leadership, responsible AI, technical execution and business transformation. When cross functional comes up...
“Has Anyone Worked Here?” Is the Wrong Question
A recruiter reaches out, and your first instinct is to ask an online group for help with due diligence. Wrong instinct.
Asking a broad, open-ended question makes it obvious you aren’t willing to do independent digging. You’re asking stran...
3 Signs of Transition Struggle
Most of the time, I want to write about the right moves to make when leaving USG for tech or another competitive industry. Aren’t there plenty of things not to do as well? So I’ll share some of the main mistakes I see.
These errors are ty...
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