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Medical Support Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Lamar, Colorado and 10 more · Closes in 331 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.
This job is open to the public, and you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Current VA employees and other federal employees are also allowed to apply.
Experience: No experience is needed for GS-3. For GS-4, you need one year of experience at the GS-3 level, such as scheduling patients, front desk work, or reviewing patient records. For GS-5, you need one year of experience at the GS-4 level, such as scheduling, referring patients, and documenting health records.
Education: A high school diploma or GED meets the basic education 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 the experience requirement. The announcement does not say education cannot replace experience at these grades.
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 announcement 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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your application materials, questionnaire answers, and USA Hire assessments. The assessments measure competencies such as customer service, flexibility, integrity, interpersonal skills, reading comprehension, reasoning, self-management, and teamwork. Missing required information or submitting errors or omissions may make you ineligible or lower your rating.
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:
- Use the dates and hours-per-week format the announcement requires on your resume, or your experience may not count
- Send a transcript with your application if you use college courses to qualify for GS-4 or GS-5
- Complete the USA Hire assessments before the deadline in your notice, and request accommodations before starting if needed
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