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Health Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Salt Lake City, Utah · Closes tomorrow

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: The public, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).

This job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Federal employees whose job was eliminated (career transition programs CTAP, ICTAP, or RPL) also get priority over other applicants.

Experience: You need one year of specialized experience at least equal to GS-3 in the normal career path for this job. Examples include clerical and clinical work in a health setting, using equipment to move or transfer patients, and watching patients and reporting changes.

Education: Two years of college-level study that included at least 12 semester hours in subjects related to the job can qualify you. You can also combine education and experience, but you must meet both the experience and the education requirements. A transcript is required if you use education. Education must come from accredited schools.

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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume, no more than two pages, showing job title, duties, month and year dates, and hours per week for each job Transcript if you qualify through education Cover letter, if you choose to include one ICTAP or CTAP documents if you claim displaced federal employee priority: agency notice, most recent performance rating, and most recent SF-50

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes tomorrow (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 will be rated on your resume, your online questionnaire, and USA Hire online assessments covering clerical skills, customer service, patient care, specimen collection, and technical competence. You must meet or beat the assessment cut score to be considered. Overstating your experience or cheating on the assessment can get you removed from consideration.

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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:

Your resume must be two pages or less and list job title, duties, month and year dates, and hours per week for each job.
If you use education to qualify, upload your transcript, or your application may not be rated fairly.
Describe patient transport, patient safety, and customer service work clearly, since the agency will not assume your experience.

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