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Are you ready for the Senior Executive Service?

If you’re interested in pursuing a career in Senior Executive Service, this guide is for you.

What is the Senior Executive Service?

The Senior Executive Service (SES) is a position classification in the civil service of the US Federal Government.

The SES consists of executive positions within the Federal Government.

These positions include managerial, supervisory, and policy positions classified above General Schedule (GS) grade 15 or equivalent.

Senior Executive Service positions are found in most Executive Branch agencies of the Federal Government.

About this guide

Written by Nancy H. Segal, a federal human resources training and job search expert. This guide has been designed to teach you everything you need to know about the SES.

Nancy will teach you the components of a successful SES package as well as help you to decide if you are ready to be a government leader.

Although there is no official time-in-grade requirement for the SES, candidates do need to demonstrate possession of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ): Leading Change, Leading People, Results Driven, Business Acumen, and Building Coalitions.

This guide breaks down everything you need to know.

30 years of federal HR expertise

Backed by an extensive career in the federal government, Nancy H. Segal is one of the leading federal job search and career experts.

About Nancy H. Segal and Solutions for the Workplace LLC

Nancy H. Segal is a professional resume writer and federal human resources training and job search expert.

Following her own 30-year federal HR career (much of it at the senior level), she founded Solutions for the Workplace with the aim of providing an HR management perspective to both federal managers and astute applicants to U.S. government positions.

As a professional resume writer, Nancy has authored multiple books on writing federal government resumes and applying for government jobs.

Nancy has unmatched federal career management insight, high standards, and respect for people’s time, and her clients use this to their advantage.

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