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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Fort Meade, South Dakota · Closes in 28 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 only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition applicants (CTAP or ICTAP) who were displaced federal employees get priority over other applicants.
Experience: No specific length of training or experience is required, but you must show evidence of training or experience that proves you can do the work of this position. Describe that experience in detail on your resume, including paid and unpaid work such as volunteer work.
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 28 days (December 1, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement with a first cut-off date of November 13, 2026. Applications received after that date are referred at regular intervals or as vacancies occur, and not all applicants may be considered due to high volume.
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 screen-out question, usually question 1 of the online questionnaire, are checked first; applicants who do not meet the minimum are rated ineligible. Remaining applicants are rated on job elements such as dexterity and safety, materials, tools and equipment, and work practices.
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 the hours per week for each past job
- Describe food service, cooking, cleaning, or patient-meal experience in specific detail, since the agency will not assume your experience
- Submit your resume and any optional documents you have, because applicants missing required documents are ineligible
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