About Federal Career Experts

Federal Career Experts provides training, consulting and individual counseling in the retirement and career transition areas.  Federal Career Experts has helped individuals and government agencies in these areas since 1996.

Click here to download our Capability Statement.

Retirement Planning Seminars for Federal Agencies

FCE offers varying lengths of federal pre-retirement seminars for different audiences.  Seminars can be from one to three days in length and can be for the following groups:

• Mixed CSRS and FERS pre-retirement

• CSRS pre-retirement

• FERS pre-retirement

• FERS mid-career retirement

• Special category employees (e.g., law enforcement, firefighters, etc.) either CSRS, FERS or mixed

• Early career benefit/retirement seminars

Special discount for early and mid career retirement seminars. In response to the concerns voiced by the Office of Personnel Management that employees are not receiving enough retirement and financial planning information early in their careers, Federal Career Experts is reducing the cost of early and mid career retirement seminars. For the remainder of fiscal year 2008, FCE is offering a discount of $250 per day of instruction on all early and mid career retirement seminars.

Career Planning and Career Transition Assistance for Federal Government Agencies

Within the areas of Career Planning (for employees staying within an agency or the government) and Career Transition (for employees leaving an agency or the government due to restructuring, RIFs, etc.) FCE offers services at many levels:

• FCE experts can help an agency design a career development or career transition program for one office, or for an entire agency

• FCE can design agency specific career development or transition seminars of varying lengths, depending on the needs of the agency.  We can also use off the shelf materials for basic outplacement topics.

• FCE can provide individual career development or outplacement counseling, either on-site or via phone and email

Click here to download the pdf of "The Career Planning Process."

Career Planning for Individuals

Federal Career Experts is your one-stop source for quality career advice if you are a federal employee or want to become one.  FCE can help you if you are:

• A current federal employee seeking advancement or new opportunities within the federal government

• A current federal employee interested in exploring options outside of the federal government

• A individual interested in seeking federal government jobs

John Grobe, President of Federal Career Experts

Our President, John Grobe is a retired federal employee with over 25 years of experience in federal human resources.  He has designed and managed career centers for federal agencies and is the contributing editor of the FEDweek books The Federal Employees Career Transition Handbook and The Complete Guide to Writing a Federal Resume.  In addition, John provides outplacement services to private sector employees as an adjunct consultant with one of the big three private sector outplacement firms. John managed the retirement program in a 3,500-employee office of a large federal agency for many years.  Since his retirement from federal service, he has designed pre-retirement seminars for clients and has delivered hundreds of pre-retirement seminars.  He is the author of Understanding the Federal Retirement Systems (published by FPMI) and a frequent contributer on retirement and career issues to the fedsmith newsletter.