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Consumer Safety Inspector
Food Safety and Inspection Service · Kapolei, Hawaii and 1 more · Closes in 5 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: 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, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Federal employees whose job was eliminated get priority over other applicants under career transition programs.

Experience: For GS-5, you need 52 weeks of experience with regulated foods such as meat, poultry, fish, or eggs. Qualifying work includes food inspector, consumer safety inspector, or inspection aide jobs. Higher grades (GS-7 to GS-9) require one year at the level below, and GS-7 and above also require independent, routine work.

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. At GS-5, education can be combined with experience. Graduate education can count toward GS-7 and GS-9.

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 Resume with name, contact information, education, and work experience Resume must show hours worked per week and dates of employment Resume must not exceed 2 pages Unofficial college transcripts if you use education to qualify DD-214 if claiming veterans' preference SF-15 and proof of entitlement if claiming 10-point veterans' preference Proof of eligibility and SF-50 if applying under CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 5 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: Applicants are placed in Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified categories based on the quality of their experience and seven competencies, including attention to detail, decision making, and dependability. Veterans' preference gives priority within each category. Your resume must support your online questionnaire answers, and inflated or inaccurate information can lower your rating or lead to removal.

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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 show hours per week and exact dates for each job, and stay within 2 pages.
Make your food-related experience clear, because reviewers check your resume against your questionnaire answers.
Upload files under 5MB in accepted formats such as PDF or Word, and avoid Adobe Portfolio files.

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