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Employment Opportunities at NARA All About KSAs:  Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Factors
  • Adobe Acrobat PDFAll About KSAs
    This PDF file gives helpful hints on how to respond to KSAs (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities factors) with "winning words" and good written statements to make your federal job application competitive.
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  • All About KSAs by Human Resources Services Division (NHHO). College Park, MD: National Archives & Records Administration, 2002.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.A45 2002 and on the web: Adobe Acrobat PDFwww.archives.gov/careers/all_about_ksas.pdf
  • Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions by Matthew Deluca. New York: McGraw Hill, 1997.
    Available in ALIC: HF 5549.5.I6 D45 1997
  • Electronic Federal Resume Guidebook by Kathryn Kraemer Troutman. Baltimore, MD: Resume Place Press, 2001.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.T75 2001
  • Federal Employment from A to Z by Sandy Harris, ed. Annandale, VA: Federal Research Service, 2002.
    Available in ALIC: JK 692.F4 2002
  • Federal Resume Guidebook, 2nd edition by Kathryn Kraemer Troutman. Indianapolis, IN: Jist Works, Inc., 1999.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.T73 1999
  • Government Job Applications and Federal Resumes Edited by Anne McKinney. Fayetteville, NC: PREP Publishing, 2001.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.G728 2001
  • Ten Steps to a Federal Job: Navigating the Federal Job System, Writing Federal Resumes, KSAs and Cover Letters with a Mission by Kathryn Troutman. The Resume Place, 2002.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.T75 2002
  • The KSA Workbook: A Guide to Presenting your Knowledges, Skills and Abilities, Federal Research Service, Inc. 2001.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.K75 2001
  • The KSA Sampler: A Companion to the KSA Workbook, Federal Research Service, Inc. 2001
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.K75 1999
  • Using Today's ReInvented Vacancy Announcement: A Guide to Finding and Interpreting the Critical Job Details, Federal Research Service, Inc. 2000.
    Available in ALIC: JK 716.M66 2000
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