Your steps to apply

Materials Handler
Forest Service · Grangeville, Idaho and 1 more · 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: The public.

Open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Under the USDA Demonstration Project, any U.S. citizen may apply.

Education: Education cannot replace experience for this job. Transcripts are needed if you use education to qualify.

Licenses and certifications:

Commercial Driver's License (CDL) may be required for some government vehicles

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 up to 2 pages with personal information, education, and work experience Resume showing dates of work, hours worked per week, and duties College transcripts if you use education to qualify (unofficial copy is fine at first) Proof of eligibility and recent SF-50 and performance appraisal if claiming CTAP, ICTAP or RPL priority

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: You are ranked on job elements such as working with normal supervision, work practices, interpreting instructions, knowledge of materials, and dexterity and safety. Inflated qualifications can lower your score or make you ineligible.

Apply on USAJOBS ↗

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:

Your resume must not exceed 2 pages, or it may be removed from consideration.
Show hours worked per week and exact dates for each job on your resume.
Upload files under 5MB in PDF, Word, RTF, TXT, or image formats. Do not use Adobe Portfolio files.

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