Michael Blakelock, the director of hiring, recruitment and talent at the U.S. Department of Education, advises prospective employees to log on to www.USAJOBS.gov. If you are a military veteran, also check out www.fedhirevets.gov.
1. Taper your résumé to the job you are applying for. One of the most common mistakes that applicants make is that their résumés are very generic or nonspecific. And when, as Blakelock says, they receive between 500 and 5,000 applications on the regular basis, a generic résumé is easily and immediately discarded.
