Federal jobs
Federal resumes that pass USAJOBS the first time.
Civilian resume tools format federal applicants wrong. They strip the hours per week, the supervisor contact, the series codes, and the KSAs that HR specialists are scoring against. They cut detailed work history that federal applicants need to demonstrate qualifications. We don't.
Why most federal applicants get screened out
01One-page formatting. Federal HR specialists score against the OPM qualifications rubric, which credits scope, scale, and detail. Civilian tools cut your work history to fit a recruiter's 10-second skim, leaving you with too little detail for the federal screen.
02Missing hours per week. Every position needs “40 hours/week” (or actual) listed. HR can't credit experience without it. Civilian tools strip this as “clutter.”
03No supervisor contact. Federal resumes need supervisor name, phone, and “may we contact?” for each role. Most tools don't even have a field for it.
04KSAs not addressed. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities listed in the announcement need to map to specific bullets in your work history. Generic AI rewrites miss this entirely.
05Wrong series alignment. A GS-12 announcement scores against the OPM occupational series qualifications. If your bullets don't reflect that series language, you fail the basic qualifications screen.
What ATSHack formats correctly for federal
01Hours per week and supervisor contact preserved on every role, exactly as your source resume has them. Civilian tools strip these as "clutter." We don't.
02Detailed work history kept intact. If your source resume has multiple bullets per role with scope, scale, and results, we preserve that depth in the output instead of squeezing it down to one page.
03Announcement language pulled into your bullets verbatim. If the posting uses KSA phrasing, occupational-series vocabulary, or specific OPM language, we mirror that exact wording in your bullets so HR's keyword screen passes.
04Security clearance level, code references (Title 5, FAR, DoD instructions), and acronyms kept verbatim. Not softened, not paraphrased.
05Refusal to fabricate. We will not invent KSAs, security clearance levels, or experience that isn't in your source resume. The federal hiring process is unforgiving on resume fraud.
Federal hiring systems we format for
USAJOBS, Monster Government Solutions, and the various agency-specific portals (DoD CHRA, VA, USDA, DHS) all read resumes the same way: plain formatting, standard headers, no graphics. Our output passes all of them because we generate a single-column PDF that USAJOBS's resume builder can parse cleanly.
FAQ
USAJOBS has no page minimum or maximum. ATSHack outputs are capped at 2 pages: long enough for HR to score against the OPM rubric, short enough that a recruiter actually reads it. We curate within that 2-page envelope. Detailed sources keep their strongest bullets, scope, scale, hours per week, and supervisor contact; weak filler gets dropped before the page count does. We don't pad with invented detail.
Yes. Paste those fields in your source resume and we keep them on every role. Without those, HR can't credit your experience.
Paste the full announcement (KSAs section included) into the job posting field. We rewrite your bullets to mirror the announcement's language so KSA keywords show up in your work history. We don't do explicit KSA-to-bullet mapping the way a $400 federal resume writer does, but the keyword alignment passes the announcement's qualifications screen.
No. We refuse to fabricate clearance levels, security training, or any other credential not present in your source resume. Federal background checks catch this every time.
For the resume portion, yes. SES applications also require an ECQ narrative, which is a separate document we don't generate. Schedule A disability accommodation letters are also handled outside the resume.
Different scope. Federal resume writers craft a from-scratch document with full KSA narratives, work with you over weeks, and interview you to surface accomplishments. We tailor your existing federal resume to a specific announcement in 60 seconds for $1. If you don't have a federal resume yet, build one from a USAJOBS template first, then come back to us for per-announcement tailoring.
Tailor your federal resume for $1.
Paste your resume and the announcement (KSAs included). Get a USAJOBS-ready PDF in 60 seconds. No account required.
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