Real Ksas--Knowledge, Skills & Abilities--For Government Jobs: Improve Your Chances of Gaining Federal Employment by Preparing Top-Notch Ksas

by Anne McKinney (Editor)

This book is designed to help people who seek their first federal government job as well as federal employees who want to advance in the system. The process of getting a government job often involves preparing complex applications, and those applications frequently require written statements or "elements" which are called "Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities" or KSAs. In the competitive hiring process, the individual who gets hired for the federal job usually has the best KSAs. This book shows examples of effective KSAs that have worked for real people. The book doesn't simply "tell how" to write KSAs; it actually "shows how" to write KSAs in sample after sample related to multiple fields. This book will do a great deal to make the federal hiring process understandable as it illuminates one of the most complex features of getting a government writing the KSAs or "elements," as they are often called.

193 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003