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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Memphis, Tennessee · Closes in 338 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Federal employees eligible under career transition programs (CTAP or ICTAP) also get selection priority.
Experience: No specific length of experience is required, but you must show training or experience of enough scope and quality to do the work. Describe your duties clearly on your resume. Applicants are rated under OPM Federal Wage System standards for this WG-4 grade.
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 338 days (September 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
Applicants are referred in the order received, and referral cut-off dates occur every two weeks, so applying early may matter.
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 first answer an online questionnaire, and the screen-out question is checked first. Applicants who meet minimum requirements are rated on job elements such as dexterity and safety, interpreting instructions, materials, technical practices, working without more than normal supervision, and work practices. Applicants with missing 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:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, or you will be ineligible.
- Describe your food service duties clearly, with dates and hours per week, because VA will not assume your experience.
- Make sure your ID is REAL ID compliant and plan for the flu vaccine requirement before you start.
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