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Meatcutting Worker
Defense Commissary Agency · Guam, Guam and 2 more · Closes in 246 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Military spouses, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).
This job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen or national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Federal employees whose job was eliminated get priority, and military spouses of certain active duty service members may get military spouse preference.
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, cutting, trimming and boning meat, and using hand tools or 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 246 days (June 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
Yes. This is open continuous with an initial cut-off 14 days after the open date. 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: HR reviews your documents, then you answer an online questionnaire rated on job elements, where failing the lowest level of the screen-out element makes you ineligible. Qualified applicants are placed in Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified categories, with Best Qualified referred first.
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:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, or it will be removed from consideration.
- List work hours per week and dates for every job entry, including part-time jobs.
- Submit the full package by 11:59 PM Eastern on the cut-off date, since uploaded files can take hours to clear virus scans.
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