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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Coatesville, Pennsylvania · Closes tomorrow
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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, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Displaced federal employees eligible under CTAP or ICTAP get selection priority.
Experience: No set number of years is required. You must show training or experience that fits the work of this WG-2 position, with details on your resume. Applicants are rated under OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.
Education: This job does not have an 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 tomorrow (November 4, 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 answers to the online questionnaire are checked first, and the first question is a screen-out question. Applicants who meet the minimum are then rated on the job's elements based on their resume and answers. The agency will not assume experience that is not clearly written, and applicants without 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:
- Describe each past job's duties, dates, and hours per week, because the agency will not assume your experience.
- Keep your resume to two pages, and save it as a PDF to keep the layout.
- Have a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or state ID ready for onboarding.
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