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Deputy Director, Office of Investment Security
Treasury, Departmental Offices · Washington, District of Columbia · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national. No prior federal experience is required.
Experience: For the GS-15 level, you need one year of specialized experience at a level equal to GS-14, and for GS-14, one year equal to GS-13. Specialized experience means financial research for senior officials, advice on legal, financial, or national security effects of financial transactions, and legal advice on mergers, acquisitions, or corporate documents. You must also have 52 weeks at the GS-14 level for GS-15, or 52 weeks at GS-13 for GS-14.
Education: The announcement does not say education can replace experience. If you rely on education, it must come from a school accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of 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 3 days (November 6, 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 your resume, online questionnaire, and Federal Supervisor Assessment questions covering seven supervisory skills. Qualified applicants are placed in quality category A, B, or C, and a subject matter expert may review your application; a resume that lacks clear evidence can lead to a 'not qualified' result.
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 (Sensitive Compartmented Information), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Give dates as month/day/year and hours per week for each job, or the experience may not get full credit.
- Keep your resume to two pages, since longer resumes are removed from consideration.
- Include clear evidence for each specialized experience area, especially financial analysis and transaction recommendations, since weak resumes can be rated not qualified.
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