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Deputy Assistant General Counsel (Banking & Finance)
Treasury, Departmental Offices · Washington, District of Columbia · Closes in 8 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, The public, Federal employees - Competitive service, Senior executives.
Open to the public, current federal employees in the competitive or excepted service, and senior executives. You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the United States.
Experience: The announcement prefers at least 7 years of professional legal experience in banking and financial services regulation or financial transactions, but this is listed as preferred, not required. Your resume must also show evidence of the Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications described in the announcement.
Education: You must have a first professional law degree (J.D. or LL.B.) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). A college degree from an accredited U.S. college or university is also required, and foreign education must be evaluated by a credentialing agency if you use it.
Licenses and certifications:
- Active member in good standing of the bar of a U.S. state, territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
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 application is first checked for minimum qualifications, then your resume is reviewed for the Technical and Executive Core Qualifications. Highly qualified applicants may have one or more interviews. Missing required documents results in an Incomplete rating, and resumes over 2 pages may not be reviewed past page 2 or may be disqualified.
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:
- Keep your resume to 2 pages and show specific examples for each Technical and Executive Core Qualification
- Do not submit a separate narrative on the ECQs or TQs, since separate narratives will not be reviewed
- Upload both law school and undergraduate transcripts and proof of active bar status with your application
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