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Medical Support Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Grand Junction, Colorado · Closes in 331 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Competitive service, The public, Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service.
This job is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S., plus current federal employees and current permanent VA employees. Non-citizens may be hired only if qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
Experience: For GS-4, you need 1 year of experience equal to the GS-3 level, such as clinic front desk work, scheduling patients, or using patient data systems. For GS-5, you need 1 year of experience equal to the GS-4 level, such as scheduling and rescheduling patients, referring patients, and documenting health records.
Education: One year of education above high school can qualify you for GS-4. Two years of education above high school can qualify you for GS-5. A high school diploma or GED is the basic requirement for all levels.
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 331 days (September 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement that may close without advance notice, before its listed closing date.
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 your application, your questionnaire answers, and your USA Hire online assessment. The assessment measures skills such as customer service, teamwork, reading comprehension, and reasoning. Missing information or unclear experience can lower your rating, and missing required documents can 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, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- List month and year dates and hours per week for each job on your resume, or your experience may not count.
- Only education from accredited schools counts, so upload a transcript if you use education to qualify.
- Set aside at least 3 hours for the USA Hire assessment, and finish it within the deadline in your notice.
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