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Heavy Mobile Equipment Repairer
U.S. Army Reserve Command · Maineville, Ohio · Closes in 8 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. You must also be an active member as a Soldier in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Experience: There is no set length of training or experience required. You must show in your application that you can do the work without more than normal supervision, using paid or unpaid experience described in your resume.
Education: This job does not have an education requirement.
Licenses and certifications:
- Class A commercial driver's license (CDL) within 180 days of employment
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 8 days (November 12, 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 are rated on how well your resume, supporting documents, and questionnaire answers meet the qualifications. You must show you can do the work without more than normal supervision, or you will be rated ineligible. If the agency finds you have overstated your experience, you may be removed from consideration.
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 show hours worked per week for each job.
- Describe your hands-on troubleshooting, repair, and preventive maintenance work in plain words.
- Plan to obtain a Class A CDL within 180 days of starting, since it is required.
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