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Federal Pre-Retirement Seminars

 

Federal Career Experts can provide effective classroom based training in the career development and retirement areas.  These courses can be custom designed to meet the needs of any audience.

 

Pre-retirement seminars are available for all types of federal employees, such as:

 

• CSRS (including CSRS Offset)

• FERS (including transferees)

• Special category employees (including Law Enforcement, Firefighters, Air Traffic Controllers and Military Technicians)

 

Our standard seminar is two days long and covers the following information:

 

• Retirement eligibility
• Retirement computations
• Survivor annuities
• Federal insurance after retirement
• Taxes
• Social Security
• Medicare
• The Thrift Savings Plan
• Financial planning
• Estate planning
• Retirement living

 

A one-day seminar would include everything through the Thrift Savings Plan.

 

Longer seminars could include more information as well as individual retirement counseling sessions.

 

Read our capability statement for more info.

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Career Seminars

 

Career development is sometimes also referred to as employee development, or even human capital development and is generally directed towards current agency employees.  Career development is designed to help current employees advance within an agency and improving the agency while improving themselves.  A good career development program can be a retention (and even recruitment) aid.

 

Federal Career Experts can:

 

• Help an agency design and implement a career development program.
• Provide career counselors or consultants on a contract basis.
• Provide training and assistance for agency HR and Training specialists to improve their career consulting skills.
• Deliver high quality employee development seminars to current agency employees.  The seminars can be adjusted to fit the needs of any customer and can contain any or all of the following topics:
  
  
  • Career exploration (including assessment instruments if desired)
  • Discovering and preparing for opportunities
  • Résumés and applications (including automated application systems)
  • Interviewing

 

Career coaching

 

Career transition consists of helping employees who are potentially affected by agency reorganizations make a transition to a new career, a new agency, or the private sector.  Federal Career Experts trainers and consultants are primarily former federal employees who understand the unique needs of federal employees facing transitions.

 

Federal Career Experts can:

 

• Provide career transition or outplacement consultants to work individually with employees.  Based on agency needs, these consultants can be experts in the federal sector, the private sector, or both.
• Deliver high quality career transition or outplacement seminars to agency employees who are potentially affected by an agency reorganization, base closing or downsizing.  Like our employee development seminars, these seminars can be adjusted to fit the needs of any customer and can contain any or all of the following topics:
  
  
  • Career exploration (including assessment instruments if desired)
  • Discovering and preparing for opportunities
    
    
    • The federal job search

    • The private sector job search and how it is different
  • Résumés and applications (including automated application systems)
    
    
    • How private sector résumés differ from federal applications
  • Interviewing
    
    
    • How the private sector interview process differs from that of the federal sector
  • Cover letters and references
  • Salary negotiations
  • Career coaching can be combined with seminars

 

Read our capability statement for more info.

 

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Contact Federal Career Experts and ask for a proposal for the seminars in which you are interested.