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Licensed Practical Nurse (Community Living Center)
Veterans Health Administration · Murfreesboro, Tennessee · Closes in 5 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
Open to the public and to current federal employees of the VA. You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S.
Experience: Experience as an LPN or LVN counts. You need 6 months for GS-4, 1 year at the GS-4 level for GS-5, and 1 more year at the GS-5 level for GS-6. Long term care experience is preferred.
Education: Graduating from an approved school and having 1 year of nursing care experience can qualify you for GS-4. Graduating from an approved school of at least 24 months can also qualify you for GS-4. Schools must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of 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 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using your online questionnaire and documents. Your application and documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.
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:
- Describe your LPN or LVN work in detail, with dates and duties, because the VA will verify it.
- If you use education to qualify, include your transcript from an accredited school.
- The 2-page resume limit does not apply here, but you must still submit a long-form resume or CV.
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