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Consumer Safety Inspector
Food Safety and Inspection Service · Wilkesboro, North Carolina · Closes in 21 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 or U.S. national. Men born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with Selective Service or exempt.
Experience: You need at least 52 weeks of experience that gave you knowledge of regulated food products, such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs or other food or drugs. This experience should show sampling, reporting, or making decisions about product standards. Higher grades (GS-07, GS-08, GS-09) need more years and skills in federal meat and poultry laws, HACCP and SSOP plans.
Education: A full 4-year bachelor's degree with at least 24 semester credits in agricultural, biological or physical sciences, food technology, epidemiology, home economics, pharmacy, engineering or nutrition can qualify you for GS-05. You can also combine education with experience. Graduate study can qualify for GS-07 and GS-09.
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 21 days (November 25, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This announcement may be used to fill more vacancies and stays open for future needs. Applications stay valid for 90 days after the closing date.
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 answer an online questionnaire, and your resume must support your answers. Applicants are rated as Best Qualified, Well Qualified or Qualified, based on attention to detail, decision making, dependability, flexibility, interpersonal skills, resilience and self-management. Inflated or unclear resume information can lower your rating or 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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Make sure your resume shows weekly hours and exact dates for each job, since it must be complete and no more than 2 pages
- If you use education to qualify, include unofficial transcripts with your application
- Do not upload Adobe Portfolio files, and make sure each file is under 5MB in an accepted format
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