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Environmental Services Technician (EVS) – Housekeeping Aid (Leader)
Veterans Health Administration · Shreveport, Louisiana · Closes today
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Career transition applicants (CTAP or ICTAP) and displaced federal employees get priority over other applicants.
Experience: No specific number of years is required. You must show training or experience that gives you the skills to do this work, and you must describe it in detail on your resume. Volunteer work counts.
Education: This job has no education 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 today (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 answer an occupational questionnaire. Question 1 is a screen-out question, and applicants who do not meet the minimum are removed. Those who pass are rated on dexterity and safety, interpreting instructions, leading or supervising, using and maintaining tools and equipment, and work practices. Applicants who do not submit required documents are found 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:
- Give your hours per week for each job on your resume, or it may be judged incomplete.
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, or you will be found ineligible.
- Describe your floor-equipment and cleaning experience clearly, because the VA will not assume what you can do.
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