The Stars Are Lined Up for Military Spouses 3rd Ed: Federal Job Search Guide for Military Spouses - Paperback

Kathryn Troutman is an American author, consultant, and career trainer who assists jobseekers interested in working for the U.S. government. She is the founder and president of The Resume Place, Inc. (est. 1971), a service business located in Baltimore, MD, that consults on, writes, and designs federal resumes. Troutman has been presented in the media as an expert on the Federal resume, Senior Executive Service applications, and Federal career consulting in general. She has published nine books on these subjects and is known in Federal hiring circles as the "Federal Resume Guru."

www.resume-place.com was the first Federal Resume Writing website on the Internet - first posted among the first 1,000 websites on the Internet, in 1995. Easily searchable for everything having to do with Federal Resume Writing and Kathryn Troutman

In 1995, as the U.S. government began phasing out the very long Standard Form 171, Troutman wrote The Federal Resume Guidebook, the first ever book on how to write a Federal resume. The Federal Resume Guidebook is now in its 7th edition.

Other Troutman career publications include the Jobseeker's Guide: How to Land Government Jobs for Military and Spouses, now in its 9th edition. The Stars Are Lined Up for Military Spouses, 2nd edition, was selected for Best Military Nonfiction in the Independent Press Awards 2020.