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Food Service Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Big Spring, Texas · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
Open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition applicants (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) who were displaced federal employees also have priority.
Experience: No set number of years is required. You must show training or experience that fits the duties, with clear details on your resume, rated under OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.
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 2 days (November 5, 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: You answer an online occupational questionnaire. The first question screens out applicants who do not meet the minimum, and eligible applicants are rated on job elements such as dexterity and safety, materials, tools, and work practices. Applicants with missing documents or resumes longer than two pages 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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less and show your food service duties with dates and hours per week.
- Answer the first questionnaire question carefully, since it screens out applicants who do not meet the minimum.
- Upload every required document, because missing paperwork makes you ineligible and the agency will not contact you for it.
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