Your steps to apply

Maintenance Worker
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Clarks Hill, South Carolina · Closes today

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: The public.

The job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S., and you must prove citizenship.

Experience: Paid and unpaid experience counts, including volunteer work. Your resume must show you can do common maintenance, repairs, and replacements of parts without more than normal supervision. Candidates are rated against Federal Wage System qualification standards.

Education: Education can be used to qualify, and transcripts are then required. Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Foreign education must be evaluated by a private organization as equal to U.S. accredited education, or receive full credit at a U.S. accredited college.

Licenses and certifications:

Valid civilian driver's license, which you must obtain and maintain

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 two pages or less showing employer, job title, start and end month and year, and hours per week Brief job descriptions showing you can do the listed tasks, written in plain language without acronyms Proof of U.S. citizenship Transcripts if you qualify through education Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration if you are a male born after December 31, 1959 Cover letter (optional)

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes today (November 5, 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: Human Resources reviews your resume and supporting documents against the listed qualifications. Eligible applicants are referred to the hiring manager, who may hold interviews. If you inflate your qualifications or make errors or omissions, you may lose consideration.

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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:

Make sure your resume shows the hours per week for each job, or your application may be marked incomplete.
If you qualify through education, include official transcripts from accredited schools only.
Send everything to the email address in the announcement. Fax and other alternate applications are not accepted.

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