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Medical Support Assistant (Office Automation)
Military Treatment Facilities under DHA · Offutt AFB, Nebraska · Closes in 10 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Only U.S. citizens may apply. The job is open to the public.
Experience: One year of specialized experience. This means scheduling patient or provider appointments, using office software to enter or retrieve data, and doing receptionist work. The announcement says this experience is typical of the GS-4 level, one grade below this job.
Education: Four years of education above high school from an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college, or university. You can also combine education and experience, as long as the total reaches 100 percent using the formula in the announcement. Education from a foreign school must be evaluated by a recognized private organization or receive full U.S. credit. Transcripts are required if you use 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 10 days (November 13, 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: Your full application package (resume, supporting documents, and questionnaire answers) is reviewed to see if you meet the qualifications. Missing information or incomplete packages can lead to an ineligible rating, and inflated qualifications can remove you from consideration.
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:
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, and list hours per week for each job.
- Attach your transcripts if you want to use education instead of experience, or your education will not count.
- Re-select any extra documents in the online application, or your application may be marked incomplete.
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