Your steps to apply

Automotive Equipment Dispatcher
Forest Service · Location Negotiable After Selection and 1 more · Closes in 9 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.

Open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national, or owe allegiance to the United States. You must be at least 18 years old.

Experience: You need 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-4 to qualify for this GS-5 job. Examples include general clerical and administrative work, answering emergency calls, and using computer programs to keep records. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.

Education: A bachelor's degree, or 4 years of successfully completed education above high school, from an accredited business, secretarial, technical school, junior college, college or university. You can also combine education beyond the first 60 semester hours with specialized experience.

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 showing name, contact information, and education Resume showing work experience with duties, hours per week, dates, title, series and grade Unofficial college transcripts if you use education to qualify, with course information Evidence of accreditation if education was completed at a foreign school Proof of priority eligibility and SF-50 if you claim CTAP, RPL or ICTAP priority

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 9 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: Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications are placed in the Eligible category, then rated for the Quality category using your Assessment Questionnaire answers. Veterans' preference applicants are listed first within each category. Inflated or inaccurate information can lower your score or make you ineligible.

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:

Your resume must show hours worked per week and exact dates for each job, and must not exceed 2 pages or you will be removed.
If you use education to qualify, upload your transcripts and make sure the school is accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized body.
Select 'Location Negotiable' if you accept any listed duty location, since pay varies by location and you must submit everything by the closing time.

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