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Assistant Grocery Department Manager
Defense Commissary Agency · Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington · Closes in 5 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: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public, Veterans.

Open to U.S. citizens and nationals. The announcement is also open to displaced federal employees eligible under ICTAP within the local commuting area, and to veterans and eligible family members for veterans' preference.

Experience: One year of specialized experience at least equivalent to GS-6. Specialized experience means work such as managing a commissary, supermarket, or a department in a retail food store.

Education: One and one-half years of graduate-level education in business administration, public administration, agricultural economics (food industry management), or a related field. You can also combine experience and education to meet the minimum. Transcripts are required if you rely on education.

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 no more than two pages showing work schedule, hours per week, dates, and duties Transcripts if you rely on education to qualify DD-214 if you claim veterans' preference SF-15 form and documents if you claim 10-point veterans' preference ICTAP notice, most recent performance rating, and SF-50 if you are ICTAP eligible

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 5 days (November 8, 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: HR checks your resume and documents against the qualifications. You also answer an online questionnaire on Commissary Operations, Interpersonal Skills, and Supervisory skills, and your score places you in a best, highly, or qualified category. Applicants are rated ineligible for incomplete packages, encrypted or portfolio files, photos, social media links, personal details like age or gender, or overstated qualifications.

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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:

Keep your resume to two pages or fewer, and list the hours per week, dates, and schedule for each job, or it may be removed.
If you rely on education, upload transcripts from accredited schools; a photocopy of your diploma is not accepted.
If you claim veterans' preference or ICTAP priority, attach the required documents like DD-214 or the ICTAP notice with your application.

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