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Medical Instrument Technician (EKG)
Veterans Health Administration · Los Angeles, California · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
The job is listed as open to the public and to U.S. citizens, nationals, or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. A separate condition says you must be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Experience: You need at least 1 year of experience comparable to the next lower grade, GS-6, that shows you know the job duties. Examples include monitoring several patients on telemetry, recognizing dangerous heart rhythms, and troubleshooting telemetry equipment.
Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade. The announcement says education can only replace experience at the GS-5 level.
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 3 days (November 6, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications. Your application, resume, and documents will be verified, and missing information or errors can lower your rating or make you ineligible.
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:
- Describe your experience clearly and specifically, since the agency will not assume anything.
- Experience is the main way to qualify here, because education cannot replace it at this grade.
- Complete the online questionnaire and upload all required documents before the deadline, or your rating may be lowered.
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