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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Grand Junction, Colorado · Closes in 90 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, but applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Because a direct-hire authority is used, traditional veterans' preference rules do not apply, though qualified veterans still get full consideration.
Experience: No specific number of years is required. You must show training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to do this work, described in detail on your resume. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.
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 90 days (February 1, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement that may close without advance notice.
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 occupational questionnaire are first checked against a screen-out question. Eligible applicants are rated on dexterity and safety, following directions, handling weights and loads, reliability, food service aptitude, and work practices. Errors or omissions in your application may lower your rating, and resumes over two pages are removed from consideration.
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, because longer resumes are removed from consideration.
- For each job, list month and year start and end dates and hours worked per week.
- Describe your duties in detail, such as sanitizing, dishwashing, or food portioning, because experience is not assumed from job titles.
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