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Meatcutting Worker
Defense Commissary Agency · Dahlgren, Virginia and 6 more · Closes in 246 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. Green card holders are not eligible. Federal employees whose job was eliminated and military spouses of certain service members get priority.
Experience: You need work that shows you can do the job, such as traying, wrapping, and weighing meat in a retail meat department, cutting or boning meat, or using hand tools and powered meat cutting equipment, at a level comparable to WG-5. Paid and unpaid experience counts, and the announcement does not state a set number of years.
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).
This is an open continuous announcement with an initial cut-off date 14 days after it opened, and applications received after that date are considered only if more vacancies open 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 you can do the work, and you must clearly meet the lowest acceptable level on the one critical element to stay in consideration. HR places qualified applicants into Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified groups, and the Best Qualified group is referred first. Applications are rejected for being incomplete, using encrypted or portfolio files, including photos, social media links, or personal details like age or Social Security number, or overstating or falsifying qualifications.
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 and list work hours per week for every job, or it may be removed.
- If you already work for DeCA, include a recent SF-50 with your application.
- Submit your full package by 11:59 PM EST on the cut-off date, and allow extra time because uploads can take hours to clear virus scanning.
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