Lily Whiteman is a senior science writer at the National Science Foundation and has worked in six federal agencies, including the White House Conference on Aging and the President's National Partnership for Reinventing Government.

Whiteman is the author of Get Hired! How to Land the Ideal Federal Job and Negotiate a Top Salary. She is also the careers columnist of Federal Times, and a contributor to the Washington Post. She has just published How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job. You can view this book on her web site.