Sandra Yeaman

I agree entirely with Bob’s statement about not trying to use too much of SharePoint right away. At my agency we all go a SharePoint site collection allocated with the “advice” that “you can do ANYTHING with SharePoint.” But that is a guaranteed way not to anything well.
One of the most well-regarded SharePoint gurus in our area, Dux Raymond Sy,…[Read more]

I set up a Telework Diary list on SharePoint to record what I do each day. I am one of many teleworkers in my office, but only one of two staff members who telework exclusively. I hope our managers encourage others who telework to contribute to the Diary, a record of just what does get done when staff members are out of sight.

It’s that “I’ll just wait til he’s back in the office” comment that I worry about. I have been an on-premises staff member for three years, but I’m about to transition to working from the West Coast four days a week. I will be taking every opportunity to remind my colleagues that I am still around, even if they can’t see me. I hope to use…[Read more]

On May 7, at the Ronald Reagen building, the Excellence in Government Conference will include a FailFaire to focus on just that topic – that the government needs to recognize that great successes often happen only after a few failures. Speakers at the session, Driving Innovation in Risk-Averse Environments, include Richard Boly, Director of the…[Read more]

I’m a dozen years late in getting around to it, but I finally finished First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, summarizing the Gallup Organization’s 20-year effort to interview managers on what they do that makes them great. The paradoxes above dovetail nicely with the…[Read more]

Khaled,

Thanks for the opportunity to provide feedback on your updated resume. Your experience is very impressive indeed.

My assignment is to evaluate your resume against the guidelines of the Federalize Your Resume webinar. As that webinar emphasized that the language in your resume needs to match language from the vacancy announcement of…[Read more]

Edward,

You have done a lot of good work to capture not just your duties, but your accomplishments. While it may look as though I made lots of suggestions or changes, that’s because I turned track changes on before making some editing adjustments. There are few true suggestions.

I used Word’s formatting features, mostly setting specific tab…[Read more]

Hmmmm. They recommended you remove the objectives section? Did they say why? It’s the absence of an objectives section that I have frequently advised be corrected.

Tyhisha,

Can you save your resume in .doc format and upload it again? My Mac interprets the .docx file as a zip file so I can’t open or save it.

Sandra

Alexa,

I’m working from home this week which makes it a bit more complicated to access resumes on GovLoop (or more correctly, I haven’t figured out how to do it outside my State account), so I’ll do what I can as quickly as I can, but it might take me until next week. Just so you know.

Sandra

Tyhisha,

I’m working from home this week which makes it a bit more complicated to access resumes on GovLoop (or more correctly, I haven’t figured out how to do it outside my State account), so I’ll do what I can as quickly as I can, but it might take me until next week. Just so you know.

Sandra