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Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Veterans Health Administration · Castle Point, New York · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency, The public, Federal employees - Competitive service.
This job is open to all U.S. citizens, including current permanent VA employees and current permanent federal employees of other agencies. You must be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Experience: You need 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade, GS-11, to qualify at GS-12. Your experience must also show skills such as maintaining lab instruments, developing new test procedures, and training or guiding other staff.
Education: A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university is required. Foreign degrees must be judged equivalent to a U.S. clinical laboratory science degree.
Licenses and certifications:
- Generalist certification as a Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) or Medical Technologist (MT) from ASCP BOC or AMT, or an accepted categorical or specialist certification from ASCP or AMT
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 6 days (November 9, 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 how well you meet the qualifications, and your experience and documents will be verified. Errors or missing information can lower your rating or make you ineligible, and reference checks may be done.
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:
- Make your resume show dates and hours of experience at the GS-11 level and the skills listed in the KSAs.
- If you use education to qualify, send a transcript from an accredited school.
- If you want loan repayment, submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment.
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