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[quote=Anonymous]Speaking from experience—leading people is a really important. Take another look at how you framed your experience there. Upfront you should note the breath of your supervisory experience (within government and private sector). how have your non federal people leadership skills helped you in federal service? Also, how are your results looking for leading people? Hopefully you’re using examples that clearly show how you’ve overcome challenges and setbacks to get people to achieve results. Remember, each ECQ has subcompetencies. With people leadership ECQ boards want to see how resilient you are when faced with challenging people situations. When I applied for SES 3 years ago, I used two strong examples of turning marginal performing employees into near superstars. If you don’t have this experience, you can talk about difficult situations leading people on a collaboration effort (inter or intra agency workgroups). There is always a difficult character or two and plenty of “people” challenges and setbacks.

One of the SES ECQ books I purchased broke down the sun competencies for each ECQ. And I was able to ensure i hit each one.

Another thing—how is your business acumen ECQ? That is usually the hardest competency “to pass.” Most people get that all wrong because they don’t have the actual experience here.

Lastly—remember that most agencies like to hire SES from within. Some hire externally, but I believe most come from within. They like to hire people they know or someone in the SES ranks can vouch for them. Perhaps you can work a strategy at your current agency. If not, doing a CDP might help you. But here’s the thing about CDPs—most are going to pick candidates from within their agency. If you are picked externally, you current organization will have to agree to let you detail over. I’m sure you know where I’m going with this… [/quote]

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