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Credentialing Program Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Columbia, Missouri · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
Open to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the United States. Also open to current federal employees whose job or agency was eliminated and who are eligible for priority under CTAP or ICTAP.
Experience: You need one year of specialized experience at the GS-6 level, which is work equal to GS-5. Specialized experience means work that gave you the knowledge and skills for this job, such as guiding hospital staff, collecting and tracking data, writing emails, letters and reports, and researching and checking records. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.
Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade.
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 2 days (November 5, 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based mainly on your answers to the online occupational questionnaire. Applicants who do not submit required supporting documents will be ruled ineligible.
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:
- Be clear and specific in your resume and questionnaire, because VA will not assume you have experience that is not listed.
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, and use the USAJOBS resume builder if it helps.
- If you claim career transition priority, include your SF-50 and ICTAP or CTAP documents, or you will be ruled ineligible.
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