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Materials Handler (T32)
Army National Guard Units · Fort Mc Clellan, Alabama · Closes in 24 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: National Guard and reserves, The public, Federal employees - Competitive service, Federal employees - Excepted service.
Open to the public, including U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. You must be a current Alabama Army National Guard member or eligible for immediate membership in a compatible military grade from PFC to SGT.
Experience: You need specialized experience in receiving, packaging, and preparing items for shipment, compiling reports, warehouse planning, and setting up and rotating storage locations. You must describe this experience in your own words. The announcement does not state a number of years.
Education: Education substitution is not considered for wage grade positions.
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 24 days (November 27, 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 and supporting documents are checked against the minimum qualifications. Minimally qualified applicants are compared with their questionnaire answers, and ratings may be lowered if your self-ratings are not supported. Failing to provide all required information may result in an ineligible rating or a lower score.
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 (Secret), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Write your experience in your own words; copying the announcement or position description may lead to disqualification.
- Show the month and year, and hours per week, for every job on your resume.
- If you are not sure you can join the Alabama Army National Guard, call an Alabama Army National Guard recruiter at 800-464-8273 before applying.
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