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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Dallas, Texas · Closes in 3 days
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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. You must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Federal employees whose job was eliminated may get priority under career transition programs (CTAP, ICTAP, or RPL).
Experience: No specific length of experience is required. You must show training or experience that proves you can do the work, with details 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 3 days (November 6, 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 occupational questionnaire are checked first; applicants who do not meet the minimum requirement are removed. Remaining applicants are rated on job elements such as dexterity and safety, interpreting instructions, tools and equipment, work practices, and working without more than normal supervision.
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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less; longer resumes make you ineligible.
- Describe your food service work clearly, with dates and hours per week, because the agency will not assume experience.
- Submit your complete package by 11:59 PM EST on 11/06/2026, including all required documents, or you will be deemed ineligible.
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