How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job, 2nd Edition

PART IIITHE TALKING STAGE

Welcome to the home stretch of your job campaign: the talking stage, which includes interviewing, negotiating your salary, and responding to agency decisions. To get here, you skillfully created a written application that proved that you are a top-tier professional, the cream of the crop, a potential keeper. Now, at last, your paper chase is, for the most part, over.

Instead of depending entirely on what you write, your ability to beat out your final few competitors and then convince hiring managers to give you a top salary will largely hinge on what you say and how you say it during, at most, a few short meetings. Do you feel the pressure build?

But no worries, as the Aussies say. This chapter and the cheat sheets on ...