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Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support)
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys · Albuquerque, New Mexico · Closes in 9 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: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.

Open to U.S. citizens and nationals only. The job is also open to applicants eligible through Merit Staffing procedures under announcement 27-NM-13097627-MS.

Experience: For GS-07, you need one full year of specialized experience at the GS-05 level in federal service, such as organizing case information, preparing court exhibits, or verifying citations. For GS-09, you need one year at the GS-07 level, and for GS-11, one year at the GS-09 level, with duties like trial preparation, customizing databases, and managing case discovery.

Education: For GS-07, one full year of graduate study in a related field (such as criminal justice, computer science, law, or IT) toward a master's degree, or a bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement (upper third of your class, membership in a national honor society, or a GPA of 3.0 or higher, or 3.5 in your major). For GS-09, a master's degree or equivalent, two years of graduate study toward one, or an LL.B. or J.D. if related. For GS-11, a Ph.D. or equivalent, three years of graduate study toward one, or an LL.M. if related. Education must come from an accredited college or university. You can combine education and experience to reach 100% of the requirement.

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 of no more than two pages showing job title, employer contact, start and end dates with month, day, and year, and hours per week if part-time List of duties and accomplishments for each job on your resume Unofficial college transcript if you qualify through education Foreign education evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S. DD-214 or other veterans' preference documents if you claim preference, plus SF-15 for 10-point preference CTAP or ICTAP proof of eligibility, SF-50, and most recent performance appraisal if applicable Reasonable accommodation request form if you need one for the online assessment

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 9 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: Your resume, supporting documents, online questionnaire, and a USA Hire competency-based online assessment are rated. Applicants are placed in Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified categories, with veterans' preference applied within these categories. If you rate yourself higher on the questionnaire than your resume supports, your score may be adjusted or you may be removed; overstating experience or cheating on the assessment can also lead to removal.

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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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Keep your resume to two pages or less, because longer resumes are found ineligible.
Include the month, day, and year for each job's start and end dates.
If you qualify through education, upload an unofficial transcript now; an official one is needed before your first day if selected.

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