GS-14 federal employee. Federal career coach. I learned how federal and cleared hiring actually works from the inside, used it to land more than one six-figure offer at a time, and built GovCareer Secrets to teach the same system.
I started on a help desk in Louisiana making $40,000 a year, resetting passwords. No clearance. No connections. No "10+ years of experience." I wasn't a veteran, and I didn't know anyone on the inside.
So I learned how the hiring actually works — which agencies hire, which job series and GS levels to target, how an announcement is scored before a human ever reads it, and what a federal resume has to say to get referred. I earned my Security+, got sponsored, and broke into cleared work.
In my 20s I became a GS-14 federal employee earning $150,000 a year, holding multiple offers at the same time, on full-time telework — which is how I ended up visiting 50+ countries while still working federal. None of that was luck. It was a process, and a process is something you can hand to someone else.
GovCareer Secrets exists because the thing that got me hired was learnable — and nobody was teaching it plainly.
Hiring authorities, job series, GS levels, announcement questionnaires — federal hiring runs on published rules that almost nobody reads. Once I understood how an application is scored, the same steps kept working.
One track for ordinary federal jobs that need no clearance, one for cleared roles, and a coaching program for people who want it walked through with them. All of it is the process I used myself.
Every screenshot on this site is from my own career — offer letters, interview requests, clearance sponsorships. You don't have to take my word for any of it: see the documents.
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