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Meatcutting Worker
Defense Commissary Agency · Bremerton, Washington and 2 more · Closes in 246 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: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Military spouses, The public.

The job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen or national, or owe allegiance to the U.S.; a Permanent Resident Card alone does not qualify. Career transition candidates and military spouses are also listed as eligible groups.

Experience: The announcement does not list a set number of years. Qualifying experience includes working in a retail meat department trayng, wrapping and weighing meat for sale, cutting, trimming and boning meat, and using hand tools and powered meat cutting equipment. Paid and unpaid experience, 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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume of no more than two pages, uploaded as a PDF Resume showing your work schedule, hours worked per week, employment dates, and duties Resume showing your name, address, contact information, and for each job the title, employer name and address, and dates by month and year Most recent SF-50 showing current position title, pay plan-series-grade, tenure, and position occupied Assessment questionnaire answers Supporting documents for each eligibility you select, per the DLA documentation list

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 246 days (June 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

This is an open-continuous announcement with an initial cut-off date 14 days after it opened. Applications received after that date are considered only if more vacancies are added later.

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 how well your experience matches the job, using a job element method with one screen-out element. Applicants who clearly fail the lowest acceptable level of that element are rated ineligible; incomplete resumes, overstated qualifications, photos, social media links, or personal details such as age or race on the resume can also lead to ineligible ratings. Hiring managers may interview selected applicants.

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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:

Your resume must list hours worked per week for each job and state whether the job was part-time or full-time, or it may be treated as incomplete.
Keep your resume to two pages or less, because longer resumes are removed from consideration.
Submit your most recent SF-50 and any eligibility documents from the DLA list, and allow several hours for the virus scan before the 11:59 PM Eastern deadline on the cut-off date.

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