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Clinical Lab Scientist (Intermittent Fee Basis)
Veterans Health Administration · Louisville, Kentucky · Closes in 331 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 all U.S. citizens, nationals, and those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Non-citizens may be appointed only when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.

Experience: For GS-9, you need 1 year of experience equivalent to GS-7. For GS-11, you need 1 year of experience equivalent to GS-9. Experience must be clinical laboratory work at the matching level. GS-7 requires no experience beyond the basic requirements.

Education: All applicants need a bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university. For GS-9, a master's degree or 2 academic years of graduate study in medical technology or a directly related science can be used instead of experience. For GS-11, 3 years of graduate study or a Ph.D. or doctoral degree in medical technology or a directly related science can be used instead of experience.

Licenses and certifications:

Generalist certification as an MLS from ASCP BOC or AMT, or Generalist certification as an MT from ASCP BOR or AMT
Specialist or categorical certifications are not accepted for this generalist job

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 Long-form resume or CV with your name, contact information, employer, job title, month and year dates, hours worked per week, and duty descriptions Copy of your MLS or MT certification Transcript if you use education to qualify, with foreign degrees needing an equivalency certificate SF-50 if you are or were a federal employee, showing time in grade Optional accepted documents include a cover letter, DD-214, VA disability letter, and SF-15

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 331 days (September 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

This is an open continuous announcement with referral cut-off dates, starting November 16, 2026, and then on the 1st and 15th of each month. Applications received after a cut-off are referred later, at regular intervals or as vacancies occur.

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 are rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications, based on your questionnaire, resume, and supporting documents. Those documents will be verified, and vague descriptions or missing required information can lower your rating or make you ineligible.

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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:

Your resume must list hours worked per week for each job, or credit may not be given.
If you do not hold a generalist MLS or MT certification, review the non-certified route in Appendix A of the announcement.
If you use education to qualify, send transcripts and foreign degree equivalency documents with your application.

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