Federal HR screens for the announcement's own specialized-experience language, so FedApply rewrites your work history to match the announcement you are applying to, in the federal format USAJOBS expects.
Item 02 · Demonstration
The difference is not style, it is rateability (whether an HR specialist can score your resume against the GS-series grade standard the announcement is written to). Pick a line from a normal resume, press federalize, and see what a federal HR specialist needs it to say.
Pick a line above. These are example bullets, not your resume yet.
Item 03 · The screening desk
Two files on the screening desk. Same person, same jobs, different outcome.
Exhibit A · what most applicants upload
A tight private-sector page: impact verbs, results, no hours per week, no supervisors, none of the announcement's wording. In the private sector this is a good resume.
In a federal HR queue it cannot be rated, so it is screened out before a hiring manager ever sees it.
Stamp shown for illustration. USAJOBS delivers the same verdict politely, by email.
Exhibit B · what the HR specialist must find
HR specialists rate what is written. They are not allowed to infer what a bullet probably means.
Item 04 · Memorandum
Memorandum
SUBJECT: The free USAJOBS resume builder
TO: Anyone comparing it to FedApply
USAJOBS ships a free resume builder, and it is good at what it does: it puts your history into the accepted federal layout. If format is your only gap, use it and keep your $59.
But screening does not happen on format. It happens on whether the HR specialist can find the announcement's specialized-experience language in your resume, with hours per week behind it. The free builder does not read the announcement. Tailoring your experience to it, posting by posting, is the whole product here.
Item 05 · Process record
Routing and transmittal slip
Paste the announcement
Give FedApply the USAJOBS announcement URL and your work history. Plain words are fine; that is the point.
Your experience, in the announcement's language
Every role is rewritten into the announcement's specialized-experience wording: duty statements, hours per week, supervisor lines, KSA mapping, 3 to 5 pages.
You confirm every line
Nothing is invented. You check every duty, date and supervisor before the document is final. It is your record, stated rateably.
Upload to USAJOBS
You get the finished federal-format resume back the same day, ready to upload to the announcement it was written for.
Item 06 · Rate table
$59 per announcement, one tailored resume per posting, since every announcement needs different specialized-experience language.
| Prepared by | Rate | Turnaround | Tailored to your announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human federal resume writer | $149 to $2,500 | Days to weeks | At the top tiers, yes |
| USAJOBS free builder | $0 | Same day | No. It formats; it does not tailor |
| FedApply, agent-prepared | $59 per targeted resume | Same day | Yes. Written against the announcement you paste |
$59 is the founding price and a planned price, not a checkout: nothing is charged today (standard price will be higher after launch). Joining the early list is free, and founding-list members keep the $59 rate when FedApply opens.
Join the free founding list. One email when FedApply opens, with the founding price locked at $59 per targeted resume.
Honest limit: FedApply puts your real experience into HR's language; it cannot invent experience you do not have.