Federal Retirements Will Spike to 21,000 Claims in January, Opening Civil Service Jobs

Federal Retirements Will Spike to 21,000 Claims in January, Opening Civil Service JobsFederal Retirements Will Spike to 21,000 Claims in January, Opening Civil Service JobsFederal Retirements Will Spike to 21,000 Claims in January, Opening Civil Service JobsWashington, DC (PRWEB) December 19, 2012Retirement claims for federal civil servants will triple in the first month of 2013, compared to the preceding months, according to a Resume Place analysis of data released in early December by the sekretariat of Personnel Management (OPM). The openings eventually created by many of these 21,000 projected January retirements will create new opportunities for federal employment, even in these times of economic uncertainty, says Kathryn Troutman, author of Ten Steps to a Federal Job.With budgets getting cut and more competition than ever for federal job openings, its critical to put your best foot forward, says Troutman. Thats why I strongly advise that if youve found the perfect announcement the one with the right location, right salary, right agency, right specialized experience requirement, do notlage apply for it with your best guess of what a federal resume should look like. Instead, talk to a federal resume writer and coach who will help your application earn best qualified and referred status, and get you the interview.Our experts can help you with your campaignThe federal resume is unlike any other resume that most professionals have written It must be a highly technical, targeted, specific resume that is written for a position posted on USAJOBS. The one-size-fits-all, shotgun approach to writing and submitting federal resumes simply does not work, says Troutman. And the resume youve used in the past may no longer get you the federal job you want today.In the spirit of New Years 2013, Troutman recommends that federal job seekers make eight resume resolutions concrete steps for creating a federal resume thats most likely to yield a better job and a more secure f inancial future. These doable steps are all much more practical and useful than conventional job-hunting resolutions such as sending out five resumes per day.Says Troutman Federal job seekers should make these eight resolutions before they send out one resume in 2013.Resolve to write the federal resume to meet the Office of Personnel Managements exacting classification standards, which are very different from specific occupational series.Resolve to feature in the resume accomplishments that are compelling and easy to find or read.Include every significant keyword that appears in the announcement for the job at hand.Write a detailed, multiple-page resume that covers all of the qualifications included in the announcement.Write my federal resume in digestible sections with selectively bolded type and occasional ALL CAPS to enhance scannability not in excessively bulleted text or huge blocks.Resolve to write a resume that matches the questionnaire for each federal job applied for.Inclu de all of the applicants jobs, even those that didnt last long, regardless of their relevance to the position sought.Resolve to manually copy the federal resume into USAJOBS rather than uploading it, which would likely cause the loss of dates, weekly hours worked, supervisors names and phones, training, and other important information human resources managers will expect to find.These steps and more detailed advice on the federal resume, application and interviewing processes are included in Ten Steps to a Federal Job.Getting your resume right is critical to your career and your familys finances, says Troutman. The average mid-grade federal position could earn you $75,000 a year, plus benefits. With 21,000 retirement claims to be filed in January, the federal government will be offering many opportunities to achieve that kind of success.

French cartoonist illustrates emotional labor

French cartoonist illustrates emotional laborFrench cartoonist illustrates emotional laborOne argument that a husband may lobby back at a wife who wants help with chores is Well, you should have asked me. I would have helped. A French cartoonist named methylendioxymethylamphetamin recently illustrated how this statement deflects responsibility for having to equally plan chores in the first place. Yes, women can ask their male mann an ihrer seites for help, her comic into heterosexual relationships invites us to question. But why is it too many womens burden to have to always ask men to remember things?The mental load of always being stuck being the plannerWhen a man expects his partner to ask him to do things at home, he is not viewing her as an equal partner, he is viewing her as the manager of household chores, Emmas cartoon argues. The man becomes an employee who works for his partner. The partner gets slotted into the nagging role of product manager, whether she likes it there or not.The problem with that is that planning and organizing things is already a full-time job, the comic states. The mental load means always having to remember.And Emmas cartoon argues that women unfairly get stuck with the invisible, unpaid mental load of planning office housework. This is a pervasive issue. In the United States, aboutone-half of women do housework, while only one-fifth of men can claim the same. Australian census data shows thatAustralian women spend up to 14 hours per week doing unpaid domestic work, whereas men spend less than five hours a week doing the same.Emmas comic shows a couple on a couch to illustrate this. The man is obliviously watching television while the worried woman has a thought bubble above her filled with food she needs to buy, clothes she needs to launder, baby booster shots she needs to call about.When partners say, Let me know if you need help, the request may be well-intentioned but it is communicating that the partner does not want to sha re the mental load of planning out chores on the couch.Office housework is a problem tooThis mental load takes a toll on personal relationships. One woman shared her story of how being the household planner hurts families in the long-run by perpetuating gendered work dynamics It is difficult to model an egalitarian household for my children when it is clear that I am the household manager, tasked with delegating any and all household responsibilities, or taking on the full load myself, Gemma Hartley wrote in Harpers Bazaar. I can feel my sons and daughter watching our dynamic all the time, gleaning the roles for themselves as they grow older.This uneven distribution of invisible labor also happens at work. One 2005 study found that working women often do office housework to the detriment of their careers. When they do it, its time-consuming extra work. When they dont do it, their performance review suffers. When women declined to stay at work late or refused to help a coworker out w ith their duties, women got rated 12% lower than a male peer who did the same in their later evaluations.This behavior thankfully can be unlearned. It starts with learning to make these invisible contributions to the workplace and the household visible for all to see. It also changes when men take equal ownership in being the household planner for paying bills and taking time off work for childcare.For things to change it seems clear that men have to learn to feel that their home is also their responsibility, the cartoon concludes. One concrete way this change can happen is through more fathers taking paid parental leave. Study after study shows that when men take family leave, everyone benefits. Women get to return to the workforce more quickly, benefitting the labor market and their own careers. And children get the benefit of having their fathers be involved in their life. One American study found that fathers who took leave were more likely to be involved in their childs life la ter on.

Punitive Articles of the UCMJ - Article 12 - Sodomy

Punitive Articles of the UCMJ - Article 12 - SodomyPunitive Articles of the UCMJ - Article 12 - SodomyText. (a) Any rolle subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficientto complete the offense. (b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall by punished as a court-martial may direct. Elements. (1) That the accused engaged in unnatural carnal copulation with a certain other person or with an animal. (Note Add either or both of the following elements, if applicable) (2) That the act was done with a child under the age of 16. (3) That the act was done by force and without the consent of the other person. Explanation. It is unnatural carnal copulation for a person to take into that persons mouth or anus the sexual organ of another person or of an animal or to place that persons sexual organ in the mouth or anus of another person or of an anima l or to have carnal copulation in any opening of the body, except the sexual parts, with another person or to have carnal copulation with an animal. Lesser included offenses. (1) With a child under the age of 16. (a) Article 125- forcible sodomy (and offenses included therein see subparagraph (2) below) (b) Article 134- indecent acts with a child under 16 (c) Article 80- attempts (2) Forcible sodomy. (a) Article 125- sodomy (and offenses included therein see subparagraph (3) below) (b) Article 134- assault with intent to commit sodomy (c) Article 134- indecent assault (d) Article 80- attempts. (3) Sodomy. (a) Article 134- indecent acts with another (b) Article 80- attempts Maximum punishment. (1) By force and without consent. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for life without eligibility for parole. (2) With a child who, at the time of the offense, has attained the age of 12 but is under the age of 16 years. Dishonorable discharge, fo rfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 20 years. (3) With a child under the age of 12 years at the time of the offense. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for life without eligibility for parole. (4) Other cases. Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 5 years. Above Information from Manual for Court Martial, 2002, Chapter 4, Paragraph 51