Your steps to apply

Health Technician (Dietetic)
Veterans Health Administration · Miami, Florida · Closes in 3 days

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, Internal to an agency, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).

U.S. citizens can apply. The announcement is also open to current permanent VA employees and to displaced federal employees with career transition priority (ICTAP or CTAP).

Experience: You need 1 year of specialized experience at the next lower grade, GS-4. Examples include hospital food service, tray assembly, using dietetics software, working with regular and modified diets, and using computers and phone systems.

Education: A bachelor's degree, or 4 years of education above high school, with at least 24 semester hours in subjects related to the job, such as nutrition, dietary therapy, food science, or food service management. You can also combine education beyond the second year of college (60 semester hours) with the required experience. Transcripts must be submitted.

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 2 pages, showing job titles, duties, month and year dates, and hours per week Transcript if you qualify through education SF-50 if you are a current or former federal employee Separation Notice (RIF) if you were displaced ICTAP or CTAP documents: agency notice, most recent performance rating, and most recent SF-50 Cover letter (accepted, not required)

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 application, questionnaire, and USA Hire assessment will be rated. The assessment measures competencies such as attention to detail, customer service, teamwork, and stress tolerance, and you must meet a cut score. Overstating experience or cheating on the assessment may remove you 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:

Show job title, duties, month and year dates, and hours per week for each job on your 2-page resume
Attach transcripts if you use education to qualify, since education cannot count without them
Set aside at least 3 hours for the USA Hire assessment and finish it within the deadline

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