Federal service
Serving again,
in a different uniform.
Federal hiring runs on its own rules, its own resume format, and its own front door. This page lays out what is different, puts your profile into the federal format, and gathers the federal agencies and contractors that post here. Nothing on this page is pulled from anywhere else.
How it differs
One front door
Most federal jobs are posted and applied for on USAJOBS.gov, the federal government’s official employment site. Each announcement lists its own eligibility, documents, and closing date, and those can differ from one announcement to the next.
A longer resume
A federal resume is usually longer and more detailed than a civilian one. Announcements commonly ask for month-and-year dates and hours per week for each position, pay grade or salary, supervisor information, and duty descriptions written out in full rather than as short bullets. USAJOBS offers its own resume builder in the announcement flow.
Veterans' preference
Federal law gives certain veterans preference in competitive hiring, in two categories known as 5-point and 10-point preference. Broadly, 5-point preference covers veterans who served during specified periods or in specified campaigns and separated under honorable conditions, and 10-point preference covers veterans with a service-connected disability and certain other categories defined in law. Eligibility turns on the details of your own service, and the announcement tells you which documents to attach. The official explanation and the current rules are at FedsHireVets.gov and on the veterans section of USAJOBS.gov.
Hiring authorities that exist
Beyond the standard competitive process, there are specific hiring authorities agencies can use. Among them: the Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA), the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA), the appointing authority for veterans rated 30 percent or more disabled, and Schedule A, which covers people with certain disabilities. Each has its own eligibility and is used at an agency’s discretion. They are described in full at FedsHireVets.gov.
Your profile, in the federal format
The same story, laid out the way USAJOBS asks for it
Your MissionReady profile already renders as a clean civilian resume. The federal version adds what a federal application asks for: a header with citizenship and veterans’ preference lines, your clearance, branch, years, and specialties from your record, and a fuller block for each position with dates by month and year, hours per week, pay grade, and a supervisor line. Anything the profile does not hold prints as a dotted line for you to fill in by hand, never guessed.
Sign in with your veteran profile and the button above opens your own federal-format render.
Federal employers here
None yet
Federal agencies and contractors post here the same way every company does. None yet.
Every role on this platform is posted by the company itself. Official federal announcements live on USAJOBS.gov.