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Human Resources Assistant
Air Education and Training Command · Maxwell AFB, Alabama · Closes in 5 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Applicants who claim preferences, such as military spouse or veteran preference, are grouped by those claims and must prove them with the application.
Experience: You need experience working in an office doing clerical work, experience following personnel system rules and procedures, experience using office software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, or experience providing customer service. Paid and unpaid work, including volunteer work, counts. The announcement does not name a grade level for this experience.
Education: Education cannot replace experience for this job. Education from a foreign school can count, but you must show proof it is equal to a U.S. education.
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 5 days (November 8, 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 resume, supporting documents, and questionnaire answers are reviewed against the job's qualifications. If you are minimally qualified, your resume is compared with your questionnaire answers to judge your experience level. If it looks like you inflated your answers or experience, you may lose 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:
- Describe your relevant office, personnel, software, and customer service experience clearly on your resume, including any volunteer work.
- Upload proof of any preference you claim, such as a DD-214 or military spouse orders, with your application. Missing documents can make your application incomplete.
- Upload your documents early, because they can take several hours to clear the virus scan before you submit.
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