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Meatcutting Worker
Defense Commissary Agency · Fort Meade, Maryland and 3 more · Closes in 245 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: Military spouses, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.

The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen or national, and a Permanent Resident Card is not enough. Federal employees in career transition and military spouses of certain service members may also apply under special rules.

Experience: Experience counts if it involves retail meat work, such as trays, wrapping, and weighing meat for patrons, cutting, trimming, or boning meat, or using hand tools and powered meat cutting equipment. Paid and unpaid work, including volunteer work, can count. The announcement does not state a required 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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume of two pages or less, saved as a PDF, with your name, contact information, job titles, employer names and addresses, dates of employment by month and year, duties, and hours worked per week Your work schedule stated as part-time with hours listed, full-time, or 40 hours per week Supporting documents for each eligibility you select in the questionnaire, as listed in the DLA supporting documentation guide Most recent SF-50 showing your position title, pay plan, series, grade, and tenure if you are a current DeCA employee

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 245 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 your experience matches what the job requires. One critical element, the ability to do the work without more than normal supervision, is a screen-out test, and applicants who clearly fail it are rated ineligible. Applicants who meet the basic requirements are referred to the selecting official, and the agency may interview some 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:

Keep your resume to two pages or fewer, because a longer resume will remove you from consideration.
List your work schedule and hours per week for every job on your resume, since missing hours can make your resume incomplete.
Submit your full package by 11:59 PM EST on the initial cut-off date, 14 days after the announcement opened, to be in the first review.

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