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Medical Supply Technician – SPS
Veterans Health Administration · Saint Louis, Missouri · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
The job is open to the public, but the conditions of employment say you must be a U.S. citizen to apply. The agency also encourages current permanent VA employees and current permanent federal employees of other agencies to apply.
Experience: Six months of experience that shows you can do or understand the work qualifies you at GS-3. For GS-4, you need six months of experience as a medical supply tech, operating room or surgical tech, or in another clinical role with sterile processing knowledge. For GS-6, you need one year of experience at the GS-5 level.
Education: One year of education past high school with at least 6 semester hours in health care courses such as sterile processing, nursing assistant, hospital corpsman, or operating room or surgical tech courses qualifies you at GS-3. For GS-4, you need two years past high school with at least 12 semester hours related to the job. For GS-5, you need four academic years toward a Bachelor's degree with 12 related semester hours, or a Bachelor's degree. Your school must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications listed in the announcement. Applications are reviewed in this order: current permanent VA employees at this facility, then other VA employees, then all other applicants.
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, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Describe your experience clearly and specifically, with dates and hours per week, because the agency will not assume anything.
- If you use school to qualify, include transcripts only from schools accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized accreditor.
- Complete the full online questionnaire and upload all required documents before the closing date, or you may be rated ineligible.
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