Federal Resume Template — 6 USAJOBS-Format .docx (First Federal Job · Military Transition · GS-13 Merit Promotion · VA Nurse Title 38 · 1102 Contracting · 0343 Analyst)

6 fill-in Word templates that already carry every item USAJOBS tells you to include — employer street address, supervisor name and phone, MM/YYYY start and end dates, hours per week, salary, and series and grade. Leave one of those out and an HR specialist can rate you 'not qualified' without reading the rest of the page.

Contact Information and Federal Eligibility

Use the name on your Social Security card; do not add a photo, date of birth or marital status.

Street, city, two-letter state, ZIP — the address you can receive mail at during the hiring process.

Use an inbox you open daily; announcement notices and referral messages go there and nowhere else.

Write it on the first page — most competitive announcements require it and HR should not have to hunt for it.

If you served, use Template 2 instead — claiming preference changes which documents you must attach.

Copy the job title, series, grade and announcement number exactly; write one resume per announcement, never one resume for all of them.

Work Experience — Federal Format (every line below is required)

Include the employer's street address; a city name alone is the most common omission in a first federal resume.

Month and year at both ends, plus hours per week — without hours, a rater cannot credit the experience and may skip it entirely.

Your actual gross pay from your pay stub; 'per hour' is fine if that is how you are paid.

Give a working phone number and answer the contact question; 'N/A' reads as something to hide.

Replace the counts with your own real numbers, and use the same nouns the announcement uses for the same work.

One thing you finished, not a list of responsibilities; use a number you could defend in an interview.

Specialized Experience Statement

Mirror the announcement's 'Specialized Experience' paragraph in your own words wherever it is genuinely true of you — and only there.

Name who the customer is and what they wanted; 'excellent customer service skills' is not evidence.

Show the checking step, not the adjective.

Say what you wrote and who read it.

Education, Certifications and Training

Include the month and year completed and the school's city and state; if you are still enrolled, write the credit hours earned so far.

Announcements with an (Office Automation) parenthetical ask about typing proficiency — state yours honestly.

Course name, hours and completion date; drop anything older than five years unless the announcement asks for it.

Before You Submit — Announcement Checklist

Attach every document the 'Required Documents' tab lists; a missing document usually means 'incomplete', not 'we will ask you for it'.

Read the questionnaire again with the resume open; fix the resume, not the questionnaire.

USAJOBS announcements close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date — a complete application after that is not considered, and there is no appeal for being late.

Name the file with your surname, the grade and the announcement number so HR can match it; USAJOBS accepts .docx uploads as they are.

Get the full version $29

After the first application succeeds, the resume has to change for a situation the free one does not cover: the month you separate and claim 10-point preference with an SF-15, the year you have an SF-50 and 52 weeks of time-in-grade and are competing for GS-13, the day VA asks for your license numbe

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Contact Information and Federal Eligibility

Full legal name: Danielle R. Ortiz

Mailing address: 4218 Hawthorne Street NE, Apt 3B, Washington, DC 20017

Phone and email: Mobile: (202) 555-0143 | Email: [email protected]

Citizenship: U.S. Citizen

Veterans' preference: Veterans' preference: None claimed

Announcement you are applying to: Applying to: Administrative Support Assistant (Office Automation), GS-0303-06, Announcement 26-DEU-12784332

A generic free resume template has no line for supervisor phone, hours per week, salary, or series and grade — the items a federal rater looks for first — so it has to be rebuilt from scratch anyway. This page already has them. Open the file in Word (File ▸ Open) or in Google Docs (File ▸ Open ▸ Upload); menu wording differs by version, and Google Docs may shift fonts and margins slightly, so check the page breaks before you upload.

Work Experience — Federal Format (every line below is required)

Position title and employer with address: Front Desk Coordinator, Cedar Ridge Family Dental, 1190 Market Street, Springfield, IL 62704

Dates and hours per week: 06/2023 – Present, 40 hours per week

Salary: $41,600 per year

Supervisor and permission to contact: Supervisor: Maria Kessler, (217) 555-0198 — may be contacted: Yes

Duties paragraph: Schedule and confirm 60 to 80 patient appointments each week in the practice management system, resolving double-bookings and same-day cancellations without escalating to the office manager.

One accomplishment with a result: Rebuilt the patient recall list after a software migration, restoring 312 lapsed records over three weeks with no duplicate entries.

Repeat this block for each position going back ten years, most recent first. A federal resume is longer than the one-page private-sector resume — there is no page limit unless the announcement states one, so do not cut required lines to save space.

Specialized Experience Statement

Specialized experience at the advertised grade: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level: scheduling appointments, maintaining electronic records, and preparing correspondence for a front-office operation serving the public.

Customer service: Answer 40 to 60 calls per day from patients and insurers, explaining coverage limits and appointment policies to callers who are often frustrated.

Attention to detail: Verify insurance eligibility and demographic data at intake, correcting mismatched policy numbers before claims are submitted.

Written communication: Draft appointment reminder letters and treatment-plan summaries reviewed by the office manager before release to patients.

Raters compare this section against the assessment questionnaire you filled in. If you answered 'expert' on the questionnaire and this section shows nothing, the higher answer is the one that gets discounted.

Education, Certifications and Training

Education: Associate of Applied Science, Business Administration — Lincoln Land Community College, Springfield, IL, completed 05/2023

Office automation and software: Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook used daily; typing speed 45 words per minute.

Training: HIPAA Privacy and Security Awareness, 8 hours, completed 03/2025.

If the announcement lets education substitute for experience, attach an unofficial transcript — the resume alone will not satisfy that requirement.

Before You Submit — Announcement Checklist

Documents attached: Attached with this application: resume and unofficial transcript (this announcement allows education to substitute for specialized experience).

Questionnaire matches the resume: Every answer I selected on the assessment questionnaire is supported by a line in this resume.

Submission deadline: Submitted 11/14/2026, before the announcement closes at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on 11/18/2026.

File name you upload: Ortiz_Danielle_GS0303-06_26-DEU-12784332

This template is complete on its own. Nothing in it is held back, and nothing in it is a sample you must buy something to unlock.

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