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Medical Support Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Muskogee, Oklahoma and 1 more · Closes in 330 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service, Federal employees - Competitive service, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job. The announcement says it is open to the public, and current permanent VA and VHA employees are considered first.
Experience: No experience is needed for the GS-3 level. For GS-4, you need one year of experience at the GS-3 level. For GS-5, you need one year of experience at the GS-4 level, doing medical support or scheduling work.
Education: A high school diploma, GED, or equivalent meets the basic requirement. For GS-4, one year of education above high school can replace the experience requirement. For GS-5, two years of education above high school can replace it. Education must come from accredited schools.
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 330 days (September 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement and may close without advance notice.
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 your qualifications, your answers to the application questionnaire, and your USA Hire assessment results. Competencies include customer service, teamwork, reading comprehension, and reasoning, and the agency may check references.
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:
- Your resume must list month and year dates and hours per week for each job, or that experience may not count.
- Experience counts only at the grade it matches, so describe your duties clearly.
- Set aside at least 3 hours for the required USA Hire assessments.
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