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Correctional Treatment Specialist (Specialty Treatment Program Specialist – Life Skills)
Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System · Coleman, Florida · Closes today

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, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).

This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S., and you must meet the Selective Service requirement.

Experience: You need at least 1 year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (GS-10). Examples include helping people build skills for independent living, leading individual and group sessions for adults, or working with adults who have serious mental illness. Qualifying experience can also include casework in a correctional or criminal justice setting, counseling that required treatment planning, or work treating people who need social rehabilitation.

Education: A degree (or education combined with experience) must include at least 24 semester hours of behavioral or social science courses, such as psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, or criminal justice. You can also qualify with three years of graduate study toward a Ph.D. in corrections or a related field, with the basic degree requirement still met.

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, limited to 2 pages, with your name, contact information, and relevant experience Start and end dates in MM/YYYY format and hours worked per week for each job listed College transcripts showing school name, student name, degree, and date awarded, if you qualify through education DD-214 if you claim veterans' preference SF-15 and a VA letter showing your name and combined service-connected rating, if you claim 10-point veterans' preference Most recent SF-50 if you are a current or former federal employee Proof of CTAP or ICTAP eligibility, if you apply under those programs

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes today (November 4, 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: You will be rated on your resume, your answers to the application questionnaire, and USA Hire online assessments covering 11 areas such as attention to detail, stress tolerance, and teamwork. Applicants are placed in Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified categories, and overstating your experience or cheating on an assessment can get you removed.

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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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

List start and end dates as MM/YYYY and hours worked per week for each job, or the experience may not count.
If you qualify through education, upload transcripts from an accredited school with the school name, student name, degree, and date awarded when you apply.
Save uploaded files with plain names such as Resume, DD-214, or Transcripts, without special characters like % or #.

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