About DraftFederalResume

The method: the announcement, not a template

Most federal resume advice is generic — a format, a page count, a list of action verbs. That advice cannot tell you whether you qualify, because qualification is decided against one specific document. For most federal jobs there is no series-specific requirement at all; the gate is one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade, described in the announcement in the agency’s own words.

So the product works in that order:

1. Read the announcement you are applying to and extract its specialized experience statement, its stated requirements and its exact terminology.
2. Check the resume against that list and report, requirement by requirement, what it evidences and what it does not. This is the free compatibility scan.
3. Ask you about the gaps that look like unstated experience, rather than writing something to fill them.
4. Generate a two-page, OPM-compliant resume that reuses the announcement’s own wording where reusing it is what qualifies you.

That last point is a real federal exception to ordinary resume advice: USAJOBS tells applicants to use the language of the announcement, so swapping in a stronger synonym can cost you the qualification. It is the opposite of what a thesaurus-driven resume tool does.

How the guides are sourced

Every guide, pay table and eligibility checker on this site names the statute, regulation or agency publication behind each figure, with the date the source was last checked, at the bottom of the page. That is not decoration. Federal hiring guidance circulates as second-hand summaries, and the summaries are frequently wrong in ways that change the answer:

• The protected veteran categories are quoted from 38 U.S.C. §§ 4211 and 4212, which is how you can see that the 10% disability threshold nearly every ranking page cites belongs to a different paragraph of the statute.
• 32 CFR 117.10 contains no expiration period for clearance eligibility and no reinvestigation interval, so this site says the regulation sets no expiry date instead of repeating a number it does not contain.
• VEOA sits at 5 U.S.C. § 3304(l) — it was subsection (f) until the 2024 amendments redesignated it, so older guidance points at a subsection that no longer carries the text.
• Where no official source exists, the page says so. USAJOBS defines only five job statuses, so there is no official glossary for most application statuses; DoD has published no 2026 AcqDemo table, so the AcqDemo ranges are labelled as derived and the derivation rule is stated.

Guides are written and checked line by line against the primary source before publication, and the review date shown on each page is the date that check was last done.

What this product will not write for you

Since OPM’s Merit Hiring Plan took effect on 27 September 2025, every competitive-service announcement at GS-05 and above carries four 200-word free-response questions, and the applicant must certify that they used neither a consultant nor AI to write the answers. The drafting tool detects those four questions and declines them:

“USAJOBS asks you to certify — under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, the false-statements statute — that no consultant or AI wrote your four Merit Hiring Plan essay answers. So we will not draft them. OPM says they are optional and not scored, and tells agencies to treat them like a cover letter. Be aware that the questions are being challenged in court, and applicants have reported announcements that would not let them submit with the field blank — so check whether the one you are applying to actually accepts an empty answer. Either way, write them yourself, briefly, and spend your effort on the resume.”

The detection is deliberately biased toward refusing. A false positive costs you one answer you write yourself; a false negative invites you to certify something untrue on a federal application. It also costs this product a feature its competitors advertise, which is the point: the essays are optional and unscored, so drafting them is all downside for the applicant.

The same principle applies elsewhere:

• The AI is instructed not to fabricate experiences, numbers or outcomes, and not to invent keywords that are not in the announcement. Gaps become questions to you, not filler.
• There are no review counts, star ratings or named success stories on this site, because there are no verified ones to publish. A self-declared rating with no reviews on the page is a structured-data policy violation and FTC exposure under the 2024 fake-reviews rule.
• The pay tools state which official table they use and when that table took effect, rather than presenting a figure with no vintage.

What happens to the resume you upload

A federal resume carries more personal detail than a private-sector one, so the short version, with the privacy policy as the authoritative statement:

• Your personal data is not sold.
• Card details never reach this site. Payments are processed by Polar, and no card or financial information is stored on our servers.
• Resume text is processed by OpenAI and Anthropic models to generate the resume, and is not used to train their public models.
• The application runs on Vercel with data stored encrypted in Supabase.
• The pay calculators and eligibility checkers are different: they compute entirely in your browser. Nothing is submitted, stored or tied to an account, which is why they need no sign-up.
• You can ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of your data — see the privacy policy for how.

Corrections

If a citation on this site is wrong, or a rule has changed, that is a defect worth reporting and it will be fixed and the review date updated. Federal hiring rules move — the RIF retention order changed in September 2026 and the Merit Hiring Plan changed the shape of every announcement in 2025. Send it through the contact form, which is the only channel; there is no support phone line.