Seven Top Tips for Applying to the Senior Executive Service

Seven Top Tips for Applying to the Senior Executive Service Seven Top Tips for Applying to the Senior Executive Service Seven Top Tips for Applying to the Senior Executive Service On the off chance that you have authentic administration aptitudes, profound expert experience, and the enthusiasm to serve your nation, you should seriously think about going after a job in the Senior Executive Service (SES). Be that as it may, this lofty government business is rare; the SES made only 300 fresh recruits for its workforce of 7,900 of every 2013. Since the application procedure is requesting and serious, it pays to get ready the majority of your application ahead of time, at that point simply change those materials to meet the prerequisites of explicit employment declarations when they show up. So this is the ideal opportunity to get ready to go after SES jobs in 2016. Here are my Seven Top Tips for setting up the SES application, particularly the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) that will recount to the accounts of your ability and experience: 1. Plan Your Career Path Survey the Leadership Journey Chart in the 2016 version of The New SES Application. Contrast your resume and the initiative skills related with the ECQs on the diagram. In the event that you see holes, demand work assignments to fill them â€" or make a parallel activity change. 2. Comprehend the SES Selection Process Realize that you are composing your ECQ stories for three crowds: HR, a board from the office where you're applying, and a leading body of current senior officials drawn from different organizations. The last board focusses on official aptitude, not specialized mastery. So your ECQs must concentrate on the initiative abilities indicated on the Leadership Journey Chart. 3. For Each Job, Identify and Prepare the Application's Components Peruse each activity declaration cautiously and note its application necessities. Required archives can change by organization. Configuration 1: Traditional SES Application: The customary SES application incorporates a four-to-six-page official resume that incorporates shots for all ECQ achievement stories; 10 pages of Executive Core Qualifications stories in the CCAR (Challenge, Context, Actions, Results) arrangement; and at least one Technical Qualification explanations of a couple of pages each, if the office requires them. Arrangement 2: Five-page Resume-based SES Application: This application is a resume that boils down the entirety of the ECQs, TQs and conventional resume segments into five pages. This difficult configuration must incorporate slugs that sum up the ECQs and TQs. Different configurations: Candidate Development Programs, Intelligence Community Senior Officer Core Qualification, Air Force SES, Senior Leader, and other unique projects or associations may have their own prerequisites for the SES application. Peruse the declarations cautiously and adhere to directions exactly. 4. Build up a Dozen Accomplishment Stories Set up a rundown of 10 stories for the ECQs and two for the TQs. ECQs are not obligations but rather stories of achievements introduced as brief articles. Your accounts ought to raise your application over the opposition, which is considerable. (For 30 openings in the 2014 Candidate Development Program, the Department of Homeland Security got 5,500 applications.) 5. Draft ECQ and TQ Accomplishment Stories in the CCAR Format SES applications necessitate that achievement stories utilize the Challenge, Context, Actions, Results position. Every one of the 10 stories ought to be around one page made out of four passages in the predefined typographic arrangement. Twofold watch that for every story you've incorporated the test, setting, activities and results; numerous candidates neglect to depict the activities or results. (See my blog entry on CCAR.) 6. Guide Leadership Stories to ECQs After you've made your Top 10 rundown of stories and sketched out every one in the CCAR group, it's an ideal opportunity to plan the narratives to the ECQ initiative capabilities. On the off chance that one of your accounts discusses shaping associations, you could plan it to the administration competency called Building Coalitions. On the off chance that another story centers around staff oversight and compromise, it may represent Leading People. Regardless of whether you compose convincing stories in the CCAR group, should they don't guide to the ECQ authority capabilities, they won't bolster your application in the survey procedure. 7. Finish the Executive Resume, ECQs, and TQs Have you have distinguished the authority skills, composed at any rate 10 stories in the CCAR position, and drafted your resume and profession history? Assuming this is the case, you're prepared to alter your application to meet the necessities of individual employment declarations. Commonly the ECQs need not be adjusted for each activity, however you may need to alter the page aggregate, for instance. You may likewise need to choose one of the TQs you've composed, or draft another one. Edit all application materials before you submit them. Print archives and confirmation them. Peruse them so anyone might hear. Have somebody edited your materials and inquire as to whether they get everything. Update any accounts that are even somewhat confounding. At the point when I compose ECQ bundles for customers, I let them know, As a lay peruser, in the event that I can't comprehend your accounts, they're not prepared. We can't accept the peruser will know anything about your experience, subject matters, or the accounts you are telling. On the off chance that you start now, you will be prepared to go after SES jobs in 2016 with elegantly composed, altered, and cleaned ECQs, TQs, and an official resume. In the event that you need extra help, look at our recently refreshed book (December 2015), The New SES Application, or visit our Services page for a statement. Diane can likewise convey hands-on preparing in ECQ composing at your organization. Diane Hudson (Burns) is a multi-credentialed vocation mentor, official resume essayist and manager, work in posing bureaucratic and non-administrative representatives to enter the government's Senior Executive Service (SES). She is co-writer of The New SES Application, the primary book expounded on the five-page SES government continue and the conventional 10-page ECQ position. Diane is an accomplished coach in Senior Executive Service, ECQ/TQ, KSA and government continue composing points for SES Candidate Development Program applicants. Organization guidance experience incorporates Commander's Leadership Development Program at the Naval Shipyard, Air Force Headquarters, U.S. Armed force Missile Command, FEMA, Defense Acquisition University (Fellows), EPA, PTO, and others. Diane is a teacher for military work availability pros and resigning military; just as train-the-coach at profession industry meetings globally on outplacement and vocation search subjects.