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Electrician
Veterans Health Administration · Tulsa, Oklahoma · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
Only U.S. citizens can apply, unless the agency cannot recruit qualified citizens. The job is open to the public and to career transition candidates, including displaced federal employees with CTAP or ICTAP eligibility.
Experience: No specific number of years is required. You must show training or experience of enough scope and quality to do the work, with detailed descriptions on your resume. Applicants are rated under the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.
Education: This job does not have an education requirement.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current State-issued Journeyman or Master Electrician license
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 6 days (November 9, 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 against the minimum requirement, which usually appears as question 1 of the online questionnaire. Applicants who pass are rated on six job elements, including troubleshooting, reading electrical drawings, and knowledge of electrical equipment. The agency will not assume experience that is not clearly written on your resume.
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 two pages or less, because longer resumes make you ineligible.
- Describe your electrical work in detail, including dates and hours per week, since the agency will not assume your experience.
- Make sure your Journeyman or Master Electrician license is current, since it is required for this job.
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