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Medical Support Assistant (Advanced)
Veterans Health Administration · Long Beach, 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 open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. are eligible under the announcement's open-to statement.
Experience: To qualify at GS-6, you need one year of experience equivalent to GS-5 level work. The announcement does not describe the type of work for this experience, and its basic requirements list no required experience.
Education: A high school diploma or equivalent. There is no advanced education substitution for this position. Foreign education needs a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency to count.
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).
This job closes when 50 applications have been received, which may happen before the 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using your application materials, questionnaire answers, and USA Hire online assessments. Competencies assessed include customer service, teamwork, reading comprehension, and reasoning. Errors or omissions in your application may lower your rating, and pre-employment reference checks are performed.
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:
- Make your resume specific: list dates and hours per week for each job, since the agency will verify your experience.
- Do not send a 2-page resume limit worry; the agency says the 2-page resume requirement does not apply, but a long-form resume or CV is still required.
- If you receive the USA Hire assessment link after the closing date, you must finish all assessments within 48 hours.
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