How to Display Job Potential for Government Senior Executive Service

This article is about displaying potential for government senior executive service. Becoming a government senior executive is about more than credentials; it's about fitting in and impressing other executives. This article will assist those seeking a position with the Senior Executive Service by providing steps in portraying intangible and soft skills.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Government job
• Desire for government senior executive job

1. 1. Take a close look at the company's strategic plans and develop a script that will allow you to talk about it in detail with other senior members of the organizations

2. 2. Study the strategic goals of the organization and support them; keep your thinking at the strategic level, so that you avoid details that will take you out of the public's eye

3. 3. Learn the organizational structure and the names of key senior officials. Routinely cite key senior officials by name, giving others the impression that you have sway or influence with them

4. 4. Learn what initiatives are important to key senior officials, and find a way to take credit for any progress toward success of these initiatives

5. 5. During meetings, conferences, and other gatherings (especially those attended by senior executives) interject with an innovative idea (without details). Ask questions that make you seem intelligent (even though you don't care about the answer)

6. 6. Exhibit a cool, calm, and collected composure; this will give the impression that you are a professional who has control of his emotions and have the capacity to collaborate with others to accomplish company objectives