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Associate Chief Financial Officer
Agriculture, Rural Development · Saint Louis, Missouri and 1 more · Closes in 35 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, Senior executives, Federal employees - Competitive service, Federal employees - Excepted service.

The job is open to the public, current federal employees, and senior executives who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications. You must be a U.S. citizen or national, or owe allegiance to the U.S.

Experience: No number of years is listed. Your resume must show you meet the five Executive Core Qualifications and two Technical Qualifications, including accounting for federal loan-making work and leading organization-wide financial oversight, internal controls, and audit readiness.

Education: The announcement does not list a required degree. Education is reviewed as part of your total accomplishments, if it applies to you. Schools must be accredited by a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accrediting body to count.

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 2 pages showing all 5 Executive Core Qualifications and 2 Technical Qualifications Transcripts or a course listing, if you rely on education Most recent SF-50 if you are a current or former federal employee or career SES member SES Candidate Development Program certificate, if you completed one Foreign education evaluation, if any education was completed outside the U.S. Remove personal information such as Social Security number and date of birth

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 35 days (December 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: A review board rates and ranks applicants using only the package you submit. Applicants who do not show enough Executive Core and Technical Qualifications in their resume are found ineligible, and resume pages past page 2 may not be reviewed.

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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, then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Give specific examples and results for each of the 5 Executive Core Qualifications and 2 Technical Qualifications in your resume.
Keep your resume to 2 pages using 0.8-inch margins and 11-point font, because pages past 2 may not be reviewed.
Do not send separate Executive Core Qualifications or Technical Qualifications narratives, since the announcement says they will not be accepted.

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