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Automotive Worker Supervisor (Automotive Worker Foreman)
Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System · Terre Haute, Indiana · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
This job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Career transition program (CTAP or ICTAP) eligible federal employees may get selection priority if they meet the rules.
Experience: The announcement does not give a number of years or a grade level. Your resume must show enough training and experience to do the duties, including supervising and working with prisoners.
Education: If you rely on education, it must come from a school accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of 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.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 2 days (November 6, 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: Your application is rated with online assessment questions into Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified, and then your resume and documents are checked. You must reach Barely Acceptable on Ability to supervise and Aptitude for work with prisoners, and earn at least half the total points. Missing skills on your resume can lower your score or make you ineligible.
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 start and end dates in MM/YYYY format and hours per week for each job, or the experience may not count.
- Describe your supervision and work with prisoners in detail, because missing these skills can lower your score.
- Send all documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on 11/06/2026, and name files without special characters like % or #.
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