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Administrative Support Assistant (Oa)
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command · Chambersburg, Pennsylvania · Closes today
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
The job is open to the public. Only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. may apply.
Experience: You need one year of specialized experience, which is work like a GS-6 level job. That work includes checking documents for compliance before submission, auditing administrative requests and reconciling records, directing customer inquiries and phone routing, and reviewing outgoing correspondence for formatting and grammar. Paid, unpaid, and volunteer experience all count.
Education: This job does not have an education requirement.
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes today (November 4, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
The announcement closes once 50 applications are received, which may be before the stated closing date.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: After the job closes, your resume, questionnaire answers, and supporting documents are reviewed to see if you meet the qualifications. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility, and an incomplete package is not considered further. If your qualifications appear inflated, you may lose consideration.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Secret), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less and list hours per week for each job, or your application may be marked incomplete.
- Describe your work on document checks, record audits, phone routing, and letter reviews clearly, since the announcement says the agency will not make assumptions.
- Test your typing speed before applying: the job requires 40 words per minute with three or fewer errors on a 5-minute sample.
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