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Commissary Contractor Monitor
Defense Commissary Agency · Little Creek Amphibious Base, Virginia · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Military spouses, Veterans, The public.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen or national. A Permanent Resident Card alone does not qualify. Veterans' preference and some career transition and military spouse eligibilities may also apply.
Experience: You need one year of specialized experience at the GS-05 level or equivalent. Examples include doing quality checks and contract monitoring of commissary or retail grocery services, applying grocery store policies to contracts, or monitoring vendors in a retail setting to check inventory.
Education: You may not use education to qualify 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 6 days (November 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: Your resume and documents are first checked for minimum qualifications, then you are rated on your experience and an online questionnaire. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you must complete the USA Hire assessments within 48 hours after the announcement closes, and you are placed in a category of Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. Applications are marked ineligible for missing or unreadable documents, resumes over two pages, photos, personal details such as age or Social Security number, or overstated experience.
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:
- Keep your resume to two pages or you will be removed from consideration.
- List the hours you worked per week for every job, since part-time entries must show hours.
- Complete the USA Hire assessment within 48 hours after the announcement closes if you are asked to take it.
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