IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???

[Anonymous]

This.

[Anonymous]

I meant THIS to hunkering down and writing killer resume.
If OP gets unemployed, having a resume will be a bit of comfort. Better than procrastinating under stress.
People may reach out. You want a resume when they ask for one to pass on to their contacts. You want a resume when you let people you know from those conferences etc. that you are looking.
There is a purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who do we imagine is looking through every IRS employee's resume? i think that is the bigger issue. Feels like I waste of time. Like the weekly 5 bullets. It is not hard or time consuming but there is no purpose.

Right! Absolutely no purpose whatsoever for a remainder of life spent unemployed.
Even unemployment benefits require one to be seeking employment. Hard to make a case you are doing that with no resume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who do we imagine is looking through every IRS employee's resume? i think that is the bigger issue. Feels like I waste of time. Like the weekly 5 bullets. It is not hard or time consuming but there is no purpose.

Right! Absolutely no purpose whatsoever for a remainder of life spent unemployed.
Even unemployment benefits require one to be seeking employment. Hard to make a case you are doing that with no resume.

I do not think OP is saying they will never need one in life! Though they did say they were close to retiring so maybe not. Do all 100K IRS employees need to carve out time in the next week to present a resume to their current employer is a different question. My guess is there will be more clarity next week

[Anonymous]

You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

Yeah they have plenty of time, isn’t April a slow month?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

For those of us who have the job we want it’s a pointless exercise. When a job opens up that I am interested in I write a resume for that job framing and highlighting the experience relevant to that job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

For those of us who have the job we want it’s a pointless exercise. When a job opens up that I am interested in I write a resume for that job framing and highlighting the experience relevant to that job.

At any given point you should be employable in case you need to leave or you're let go.

Or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

For those of us who have the job we want it’s a pointless exercise. When a job opens up that I am interested in I write a resume for that job framing and highlighting the experience relevant to that job.

At any given point you should be employable in case you need to leave or you're let go.

Or not.

At the point they need a new job, they would write a resume, moron.

[Anonymous]

Just have chatbot do a resume for you, then you can edit it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow what a limited point of view. I have been in the same federal position for 23 years since graduating law school, constantly learning new areas of the law and feel very successful. Nailed my dream job from the beginning, why would I have had a resume before this chaos?

Ignore the jerks. They’re going to criticize anything you say, anyway.

[Anonymous]

Im confused.

Are you just too lazy to work on the resume?

Or are you not sure whether sending in the resume is strategic or not?

[Anonymous]

Normally, if I were applying for a promotion within my agency, I'd put bullets about my specific projects.

If I were applying externally, I would describe my experience in much more general terms.

Which should we do for this? (I have been busy having kids and cancer so I haven't done this exercise in 10 years.)

[Anonymous]

If IRS is asking for resumes, they may be attempting to do the RIF the traditional way. If they do, it will be the very first agency to do so, so that's actually a great thing.

A resume sounds daunting, but isn't with chat GPT, etc. (which can be used for free).

Presumably, the reason for the resume is that they're trying to to find another internal job for you rather than lay you off. In a traditional rif, they could offer you a different job for which you are qualified, rather than just unemploying you. So it's worth doing it. It wouldn't need to be fancy, but you would want to have all of your job skills noted, and all your prior federal jobs noted (because the most straightforward thing would be to offer you one of those).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You should have a fairly up-to-date resume if you are a grown-up who might at some point need to get a job. The point isn't just having the resume, it's writing the resume, looking at jobs you might want, thinking about the gaps in your resume, and being intentional about remedying them. This is a good exercise to engage in periodically.

For those of us who have the job we want it’s a pointless exercise. When a job opens up that I am interested in I write a resume for that job framing and highlighting the experience relevant to that job.

At any given point you should be employable in case you need to leave or you're let go.

Or not.

At the point they need a new job, they would write a resume, moron.

The resume isn't what makes you employable. You figure out what needs to be on the resume and you do the work to get there. Or you don't. Again, up to you.