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Advanced Medical Support Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Aspinwall, Pennsylvania · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
This job is open to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. It is also open to current federal employees of the hiring agency.
Experience: You need one year of experience equivalent to the GS-5 grade. Qualifying work includes scheduling, canceling, and rescheduling patient appointments, answering phones, greeting patients, and verifying insurance information at check-in.
Education: A high school diploma, a General Education Development (GED) certificate, or a state or territorial proficiency certificate meets the basic 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 in 6 days (November 9, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
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: You will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your application, resume, and supporting documents. All experience is verified, and errors or omissions may affect or remove your rating. You must complete the full online questionnaire, and reference checks may be done.
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, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Make sure your resume clearly shows the dates and hours per week for each relevant job.
- Describe your experience in specific terms, such as the scheduling tasks you did, because the agency will not assume anything.
- If you use education to qualify, attach your transcript, since it is easy to forget.
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