Everyone is looking for a job or a promotion at some point in their career. Creating a resume that is effective can make a huge difference in your wages over the life of your career. Here are tips for creating an effective, focused resume with the technology used by employers today to in filling jobs.
The are different types of individual retirement accounts (IRA’s) and the requirements for investing in them are different. Here is an explanation.
The plans you have for retirement may be colored by your view of retirement as retiring from something (such as your government job or work). Remember: You are likely to live as long after you retire, as you worked for Uncle Sam prior to your retirement. Look ahead as well as looking back in you retirement planning.
The drop in the value of your Thrift Savings Plan in 2008 may have you worried–especially if you are already retired. recent legislation allows investors to avoid taking the minimum required distribution in 2009. But to take advantage, you need to act sooner rather than later.
If you are not careful in making your regular TSP investments, you could be making a mistake that will cost you a significant amount of money. Highly compensated federal employees should consider making a flat payment to the TSP each pay period. This column explains why this is could be important to you.
To make your New Year’s resolutions more successful, break your resolutions into achievable steps, monitor the completion of those steps and celebrate your small successes. Here are suggestions you can use for small resolutions that will help you move toward the larger goal of finding a better job.
No one lives forever but you will leave survivors. Your federal employee benefits are valuable. What happens to these benefits when you die as a retired federal employee? In some cases, it depends on actions you take to protect those you are leaving behind.
Federal retirement expert John Grobe recently wrote an article read by tens of thousands of readers entitled “What Happens to Your Federal Employee Benefits if You Die While Still Working?” Some readers had questions or wanted more information. Here are answers to some of the more frequent questions. Please read this in conjunction with the previous article on this subject.
Open season will soon be upon us. Retirement expert John Grobe says that this is a good time to look at the “five-year requirement” for federal employee health insurance and life insurance and how this requirement may impact your retirement.
Some readers say they are contemplating leaving federal service before they retire. It could be for a better job, boredom, the boss from Hell or a myriad of other reasons. What happens to your benefits when you leave?
