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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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The 100% Federal Employee Has a 0% Tech Transition Strategy
If you are on the SES track and genuinely want it, this probably is not for you.
You are already committed to the unwritten rules: managing up skillfully, waiting out the promotion schedule and staying close to the people who decide who ge...
You’re Afraid of the Wrong Thing
You’re evaluating your transition at your most vulnerable moment. Resistance is at an all-time high. The reasons for staying outweigh the attraction of leaving, mostly because you know all the numbers and timelines of a government career. W...
You're Not Too Late. But You're Wasting Time Copying Someone Else's Move
The market will always seem crowded. You will often feel too late. If only you had left to join Palantir in 2008. Or maybe you could have gotten into Facebook in 2011. Or SpaceX in 2021.
But does living a fantasy get you any closer to your...
More fiction than fact in pension math
How many times have you heard a senior colleague go on and on about how he’s got x millions of pension waiting for him once he retires? That’s why there’s no way he’ll ever leave, unless some mythical defense contractor looking just for him...
The Safest Career Move Is Often the Riskiest
I put a lot of emphasis on revenue-generating roles. Partly because plenty of aspiring former feds instead chase jobs in cost centers. Policy and security may feel like a natural fit because that’s where people with clearances cluster. But...
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