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Environmental Services Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Tulsa, Oklahoma and 1 more · Closes in 89 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).
Open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition candidates (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) and federal employees whose job or agency was eliminated may also apply and have priority.
Experience: No specific length of training or experience is required. You must show training or experience that is broad enough and of good enough quality to do the work, with detailed descriptions on your resume. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts. Ratings follow OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards (WG-2).
Education: This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
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 89 days (February 1, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This open continuous announcement may close without advance notice, so applying early is wise.
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: Applicants complete an online occupational questionnaire, and the first question is a screen-out for minimum qualifications. Those who pass are rated on the job elements and referred in the order received. Errors or omissions may lower your rating or make you ineligible, and resumes longer than two pages cause ineligibility.
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, and list hours per week for each job, since part-time experience counts by hours worked.
- Describe specific cleaning, custodial, or housekeeping duties in each job, because the agency will not assume your experience.
- Check that you have the required resume and any documents that apply to you, such as an SF-50 or CTAP/ICTAP proof, because applicants without required documents are ineligible.
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