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Meatcutting Worker
Defense Commissary Agency · Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona and 4 more · Closes in 245 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public, Military spouses.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen or national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Permanent Resident Card holders are not eligible. Career transition candidates and military spouses of certain service members are also listed as eligible groups that may get priority.
Experience: The announcement does not list a set number of years or a grade level for experience. Qualifying experience includes working in a retail meat department traying, wrapping, and weighing meat, cutting, trimming, and boning meat, or using hand tools and powered meat cutting equipment. Paid and unpaid work, including volunteer work, counts.
Education: You may not use education to qualify for this position.
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 245 days (June 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
Yes, this is an open-continuous announcement with an initial cut-off 14 days after it opened. Applications received after that date are considered only if more vacancies open, and then all applicants are re-evaluated.
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 answer an online questionnaire that rates whether you can do the work, using the job element method. Applicants who clearly fail the screen-out element, which is the ability to do the work without more than normal supervision, are rated ineligible, and overstated qualifications can also lead to ineligible status.
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 list your work schedule, hours per week, dates of employment, and duties, or it may be treated as incomplete.
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, because longer resumes are removed from consideration.
- Choose the eligibility you qualify for and upload its required documents, since you are considered only for the eligibilities you select.
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