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Business Systems Analyst
Bureau of the Fiscal Service · Birmingham, Alabama and 3 more · 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.
Only U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals can apply. The job is open to the public, and no prior federal experience is required. Displaced or surplus federal employees eligible for CTAP or ICTAP may also apply.
Experience: You need 1 year of specialized experience at the GS-13 level, which means work equal in difficulty to GS-12. The experience must include overseeing financial system data standards, collection and infrastructure; managing all aspects of a financial system project, including monitoring contractor performance; and analyzing financial system issues and recommending fixes for operational and security compliance.
Education: There are no educational requirements 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.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 2 days (November 5, 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 will be rated on your resume, your questionnaire answers, and a USA Hire online assessment that measures 13 general skills such as teamwork, attention to detail, and decision making. You must meet or exceed a cut-off score of 90 to be referred, and overstating your experience or cheating on the assessment can get you removed.
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:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, or you may be removed from consideration.
- Give month/day/year dates and hours per week for each job, or you may not get full credit for your experience.
- Show each of the three specialized experience areas clearly in your resume and match them to your questionnaire answers.
- Complete the USA Hire assessment within 48 hours after the announcement closes, and aim for a score of 90 or higher.
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