Your steps to apply

Animal Packer
Forest Service · Location Negotiable After Selection and 4 more · Closes in 8 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: The public.

The job is open to the public. The listing says U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. may apply, but the conditions of employment require U.S. citizen or U.S. national status.

Experience: No set number of years is listed. You are rated on your ability to do the job, and your paid or unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts if it is relevant. Your resume must show related work with dates and hours per week.

Education: Education cannot replace experience for this position.

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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume of 2 pages or less with personal information, education and work experience Resume must list dates, hours worked per week, job titles and grades for related work College transcripts if you use education to qualify (unofficial copy is fine at first) Proof of eligibility, SF-50 and recent performance appraisal if you claim CTAP, RPL or ICTAP priority

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 8 days (November 12, 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 are ranked on job elements such as working without more than normal supervision, using and maintaining tools and equipment, interpreting instructions, knowledge of materials, and dexterity and safety. Inflated qualifications can lower your score or make you ineligible, and errors or missing information may affect your rating.

Apply on USAJOBS ↗

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 (Other), then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Select the Location Negotiable option if you are willing to work at any listed duty location.
Make sure your resume shows hours per week and exact dates for each related job, and stays within 2 pages.
Submit online by 11:59 p.m. ET on the closing date; hardship applications must be complete by noon ET that day.

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