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Air Education and Training Command · Luke AFB, Arizona · Closes in 8 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Open to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Certain preference groups, such as military spouses and veterans, get priority, and you must prove any eligibility you claim.
Experience: You must have experience preparing and presenting food in a grill, snack bar, restaurant, club, or similar food setting. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts. The announcement does not give a number of years.
Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade. Education from a foreign school counts only if you show it is equivalent to a U.S. education.
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 8 days (November 11, 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, supporting documents, and questionnaire answers are checked against the qualifications. If you are minimally qualified, your resume is compared with your questionnaire answers, and you may lose consideration if your answers are inflated.
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 clearly describe your food preparation experience, since education cannot replace it.
- Attach proof for any preference you claim, or your application may be marked incomplete.
- Be ready for a background investigation and a pre-employment physical, and confirm you can lift 40 pounds.
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