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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Battle Creek, Michigan · Closes in 6 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 the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Federal employees whose job was eliminated may get priority under career transition rules (CTAP or ICTAP).
Experience: No set number of years is required, but you must show training or experience that fits the work of a Wage Grade 2 Food Service Worker. Describe your duties, dates, and hours per week clearly on your resume, because the agency will not assume your experience. Volunteer work can count.
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 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 answers to the online questionnaire are checked first, starting with a screening question on minimum qualifications. Applicants who meet the minimum are then rated against the job's listed elements. Applicants who do not submit required documents will be 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, and list dates and hours per week for each job
- Clearly describe any food service, cooking, cleaning, or volunteer work, since experience is not assumed
- Submit your resume and complete the questionnaire by 11:59 PM EST on 11/09/2026, or your application will not be considered
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