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FEDERAL EMPLOYEE
RETIREMENT PLANNING SITE
Federal Retirement Network
Site Overview
Contact Information
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Program and Web Design
Author
Introduction
Site
Accessibility
Most
federal employees attend agency sponsored retirement seminars several
years prior to retiring. I attended a retirement seminar in 2002 and I
came back from the briefing with more questions than answers. I was
confused about many things – mostly things that were not covered at the
seminar. I was interested in knowing just what I would have to live on in
retirement – from all income sources, what my wife will have to live on
when I die and most importantly, I was uncertain whether or not I was
financially able to retire and I knew nothing about living trusts or
probate avoidance techniques.
This
site will help you determine what you will have to live on in retirement, what your
spouse will have to live on after you die, benefit options, and
provide survivors with an easy-to-follow checklist to help them through
difficult times, and direct you to other resources to finalize your plans.
This site should get you seriously thinking about your personal situation. You should also
consult an attorney if you have complicated personal or financial
situations, a disabled child that will need care after you die, or if your
estate will be subject to estate taxes.
Originally, this site was hosted on our
Government Jobs Career Center.
Federal Jobs Net was created to help federal government job hunters
find, apply for, and land government jobs. It was expanded to
assist federal employees seeking upward mobility, career
progression, and retirement planning assistance. Federal Jobs
Net also includes
comprehensive Postal employment information,
information about overseas jobs,
law enforcement opportunities, and
detailed information on
Veteran's
benefits, handicapped employment
options, and special emphasis hiring programs.
The original career site was Launched in 1994 by Dennis V. Damp, a career federal employee,
and President of Bookhaven Press LLC. The retirement site was
launched in early 2004 before Damp retired from federal
service in December of that year. He spent 35+ years in government and understands
the federal retirement and employment system from the inside out.
Damp is also the author of the highly acclaimed book,
The
Book of U.S. Government Jobs, that was nominated twice for
"Best
Career Title," by the Benjamin Franklin Awards committee.
Damp founded Bookhaven Press LLC in 1985 to publish
informative and helpful career, business, and finance books.
Bookhaven Press developed companion web sites, including Federal
Jobs Net, in the early 1990s for many of their books and these
sites receive more than 2 million hits monthly. The companion
sites are:
Shipping & Mailing Address: (UPS/FEDEX, etc.)
Bookhaven Press LLC
249 Field Club Circle
McKees Rocks, PA 15136
Phone: 412-494-6926
Fax: 412-494-5749
Email: Bookhaven@aol.com
President & Senior Publisher: Dennis V. Damp
Associate
Publisher: Victor Richards
Office Manager: Mary McGraw
Publicist: Kate Bandos of KSB Promotions, 616-676-0758
Distributor: Midpoint Trade Books, 212-727-0190 (Eric Kampman)
Toll Free Direct Sales Number: 1-800-782-7424.
This number is for direct retail sales only and answers
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Do not call this number to
talk with our staff. The operators can't transfer your
calls.
On-line shopping cart:
http://www.bookmasters.com/marktplc/1orderbookhaven.htm
Purchase orders are accepted from wholesalers,
libraries, and certified resellers. Fax, mail or email your POs.
Quick & Easy Federal Jobs Kit
Dennis V. Damp (born May 19, 1949 in Pittsburgh, PA) is an
author, retired federal manager, business owner, career
counselor and veteran. Dennis attended college at Washburn
University in Topeka, KS, and Robert Morris College, CCAC and
Point Park Colleges in Pittsburgh, PA. Damp’s
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs, was
a three-time finalist for “Best Career” title by the Benjamin
Franklin Awards Committee and a finalist for “Best Career &
Reference” title in 2008 by Foreword Magazine. This title was
also selected for an alternate selection by the
Book-Of-The-Month Club.
Damp is the author of 23 books and a recognized employment
expert. He retired in 2005 at age 55 with 35 years of government
service. Dennis has been a guest on hundreds of radio talk
shows, CNN Cable TV, lectured at universities and colleges,
produced Internet web sites and training videos, and has written
hundreds of articles for national magazines and newspapers. He
is a contributing writer for Monster.com and other Web portals,
and his books have been featured in the Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, New York Times and U.S. News & World Report.
Dennis joined the Air Force in 1968 and spent over three
years on active duty and an additional seven years with the Air
National Guard. He was hired by the Department of Defense (DOD)
after leaving active duty and transferred to the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1975. He spent the remainder of
his career in various positions with the FAA.
With the FAA, Dennis worked as an electronics technician,
training instructor, project engineer, computer-based
instruction administrator, training program manager, program
support manager, and environmental health and safety program
manager. Dennis held numerous supervisory and management
positions and was responsible for recruiting, rating and
interviewing applicants, outreach and hiring. His last
government position was technical operations manager at the
Pittsburgh International Airport's air traffic control tower.
Damp’s books are based on his many years in management where
he was responsible for recruitment, outreach, retention and
career development. His all-new 10th edition of
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs
presents an insider's view of what it takes to go from job
hunter to hired employee, and everything in between, to improve
a job hunter’s chances of landing a high-paying government job.
Dennis expanded this site to include information for
Federal employees and incorporated a
comprehensive federal employee's retirement planning site based
on the research he had to do to prepare for his personal federal
government retirement.
Books by Dennis Damp:
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs -
10th edition
Health Care
Job Explosion - 4th edition
Post Office Jobs
- 4th edition
Dollars & Sense: Safe Investment Strategies for Small
Investors
Take Charge of Your Federal Career
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example, one accessibility standard is that all images have "alternate
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Even if you cannot see our images, the software can read the description
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There are two different guidelines often used when
determining whether a site is "accessible": the US Government Section
508 Guidelines and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This site was built with a template that meets
as many of those standards as possible. It meets all the
Priority 1 standards of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
and all of the Section 508 Guidelines. There are several
exceptions such as rotating ad banner scripts that can't be
tagged.
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are applied without CSS).
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allows the page to degrade functionally even if someone
does not have CSS viewing capability.
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- Images within the page layout have "alt" set in the
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