Federal Employees: Update Your Resume - Shutdown

For Federal Employees who were just furloughed because of the federal government shutdown, this would be a very good time to update your resume.

I suggest filing for unemployment, then updating your resume, and also:

update your list of references.

Another thing - try to get letters of recommendation to add to your personal files.
Oftentimes in our federal careers, we work with people and they move on, and we should have gotten letters of recommendation from them.
If that isn't possible, see if they would allow you to use them as a reference.
Ask for their new address and contact information at their new position/agency/office.

Whenever using others as references, its advisable to give them notice that you're seeking work and that they may be called asking for them as references to you.

FedSmith.com has lots of articles about searching for federal jobs, and here is one link to a post there about itfalls you should avoid when creating a federal resume:

http://www.fedsmith.com/2012/01/18/avoid-these-top-common-pitfalls-your

FederalDaiy.com has articles too.

It offers FederalSoup.com, a discussion forum for active and retired federal employees to discuss current news, etc.

https://federalsoup.federaldaily.com