Federal Resume Builder

For the announcement you paste: its specialized-experience lines and the grades it names, and for each line the words your work history already uses and the ones it does not. It also lists, for each job it finds in your history, the details USAJOBS asks for that it could not find: start and end month and year, hours per week, and series and grade for federal jobs. It compares words, not meaning, and does not assess whether you qualify.

Three tailored versions: one for each of up to three announcements. For each, the system writes your relevant work experience against that announcement’s specialized experience, from the facts you give, in the layout of the template from our free guide. You edit every line on screen, see the page count at the settings USAJOBS suggests, and download PDF and Word. Each version can be written once more for the same announcement; adding any missing details first gives the rewrite more of your facts to use.

It is told to write only from your text, rewording what you wrote in the announcement’s terms. A text check then removes any line that has a number, an acronym or a known tool name not found in your text, and lists it with the reason. Job dates, hours and series and grade come from your own job lines; where your text does not give one, a visible blank such as [add number] is left for you to fill in. The check cannot catch every wrong statement: read every line and make sure it describes your own experience. The hiring agency decides whether you qualify.

OPM’s two-page limit applies to all competitive and excepted service announcements under Title 5, and USAJOBS says it will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages. The builder measures your resume at the settings the USAJOBS Help Center suggests (8.5 x 11 inch page, 0.5 inch margins, 14 point titles, 10 point text) and, if it runs over, cuts the last lines of your oldest jobs first. Every cut line is listed, and you can put any of them back.

No. For announcements graded GS-5 and above, OPM’s Merit Hiring Plan says applicants will be required to certify that their essay answers are their own words, without a consultant or AI. The builder writes the resume only.

The free check reads what you paste on our server and does not store it. When you write a version, your work history, notes and the announcement are sent to OpenAI, whose servers run the writing system, with storage turned off in the request; under its own policy OpenAI may keep requests for a limited time to monitor for abuse. The separate name and contact fields are added to the resume on our server and are not sent to OpenAI; anything inside your history, notes or the announcement is sent, so leave contact details out of those. We do not store the history you paste, but we do save each written resume (which describes your work) on your account so you can open and download it again, until you press “Delete my saved resumes”. Your text is also saved in this browser.

USAJOBS recommends saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages; it also accepts Word files. The Word file lets you change anything later: check it is still two pages or less before you upload it.