Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 11:21     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 11:15     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Just hunker down and write your killer resume.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:53     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


I'm not a fed, but I don't have a resume or LinkedIn because I haven't needed either for over 30 years.


Doing that stuff is insurance. You might never need it, but that doesn't mean you made a good choice.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:48     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


LinkedIn is very 2012.


Why would anyone happy with a federal job spend time on a resume? I spend time on a resume only when looking..


Because successful people move up and do new things within the federal government. That requires updating resume.

+100


And when you hit the top of non appointed positions? You stay there.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:47     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


I'm not a fed, but I don't have a resume or LinkedIn because I haven't needed either for over 30 years.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:40     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Whining about updating your resume?

I hope you get fired.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:27     Subject: Re:IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
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?


That’s not typically the case for most feds. We have to apply elsewhere on usajobs to get promotions. There are not laddered positions. Once I was a gs12 who was so good at her job that I ran the office when my prior gs14 boss retired. I ran the office for 4 years but was ineligible to apply when the job was finally posted. The dumbest, cruelest manager was hired who didn’t know what she was doing. I learned my lesson and never made that mistake again! I got a new job and was a gs13 for exactly 13 months before I got a new gs14 job. And then I took over an office again.

Surely you haven’t been a gs 14/15 for 23 years??? In my agency attorneys also don’t get promotions without applying.

NP, but before I retired last week, I was an attorney who came in as a 12, moved up 3 grades as quickly as my supervisor could promote me, and spent my final 25 years as a non-supervisory GS-15. No applications involved once I came on board, so no need for an updated resume. I know tons of attorneys in the same boat at my agency.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:26     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:There's a difference between having a dream job, being content, and being stupidly complacent.

I had a federal dream job. I had a resume. Came in handy when agency was defunded.

Look. Here are your baby steps.
Do you have written performance reviews? Do you fill out your accomplishments, training, skills?
Get those.
Use them to make a functional resume.
This does not take days or weeks to do.
You should be able to put together one page in a couple of hours. You can make a two page version in a couple more. Do this at home on your own IT.
You are "so busy"? Maybe not for long. Put off a laundry or two and salvage your so called career.
Honestly, this is a stereotype.


Sure, they can and should put together a resume. But the resume is just a sign of the larger issue, which is that they haven't thought about what they would have to do to find a new job and been taking actions over the years to make that easier.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:25     Subject: Re:IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.


And if OP doesn't bother to do one, a thoughtful decision would be they don't care and are asleep at the wheel.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:23     Subject: Re:IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
This is actually how things are supposed to work in a RIF. Not wholesale reduction, but updating everyone's resume and info and then making thoughtful decisions.

IRS is the first agency I've heard of that might actually be following the RIF regs. Praise be.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:22     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
There's a difference between having a dream job, being content, and being stupidly complacent.

I had a federal dream job. I had a resume. Came in handy when agency was defunded.

Look. Here are your baby steps.
Do you have written performance reviews? Do you fill out your accomplishments, training, skills?
Get those.
Use them to make a functional resume.
This does not take days or weeks to do.
You should be able to put together one page in a couple of hours. You can make a two page version in a couple more. Do this at home on your own IT.
You are "so busy"? Maybe not for long. Put off a laundry or two and salvage your so called career.
Honestly, this is a stereotype.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:14     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


LinkedIn is very 2012.


Why would anyone happy with a federal job spend time on a resume? I spend time on a resume only when looking..


Because successful people move up and do new things within the federal government. That requires updating resume.

+100
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 10:14     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


LinkedIn is very 2012.


Yeah but that would be an improvement for OP and if they had even an old one it would have stuff to scrape for a resume.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 09:08     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


LinkedIn is very 2012.


Why would anyone happy with a federal job spend time on a resume? I spend time on a resume only when looking..


Because successful people move up and do new things within the federal government. That requires updating resume.


Not when you are a nonsupervisory GS-15 in a job and office you love but with no desire to have your SES manager’s job (and they weren’t leaving anyhow) and a job that’s specific to your agency. I didn’t have a resume. It’s okay to be content.


Well, you definitely need one now. One for the feds and one for the private sector. Buckle down and get it done.
Anonymous
Post 04/05/2025 07:36     Subject: IRS wants me to provide a resume for use during a RIF???
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hearing a long term Fed doesn't even have a resume makes me go hmmm. I always had one. Do you even have LinkedIn to screen scrape and use for chatGPT?
Make one. Put your publications and presentations in a section. Put your software skills in a section.


LinkedIn is very 2012.


Why would anyone happy with a federal job spend time on a resume? I spend time on a resume only when looking..


Because successful people move up and do new things within the federal government. That requires updating resume.


Not when you are a nonsupervisory GS-15 in a job and office you love but with no desire to have your SES manager’s job (and they weren’t leaving anyhow) and a job that’s specific to your agency. I didn’t have a resume. It’s okay to be content.