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Nurse Practitioner – Primary Care Residency Program Director
Veterans Health Administration · Chicago, Illinois · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service, The public.
This job is open to the public, meaning U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Current permanent VA employees are also considered, along with all other candidates.
Experience: You need four years of nurse practitioner experience at the Advanced Practice Nurse IV level, and one of those years must be specialized experience equivalent to Nurse III. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.
Education: You need a post-master's certificate, master's, or doctoral degree as a Nurse Practitioner from a nursing school accredited by ACEN or CCNE. Foreign degrees must be validated by an agency-recognized degree evaluation service.
Licenses and certifications:
- Active, current, full, and unrestricted Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner) license in a U.S. state, territory, or D.C.
- Full and current board certification in a clinical specialty from ANCC, AANPCB, or another nationally recognized certifying body
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 tomorrow (November 4, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
The job may close once 20 applications are received, which can be before the closing date. The announcement text and the listing show different closing dates, so check the official date on the USAJOBS page.
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 listed above, based on your questionnaire and supporting documents. Your application, resume, and CV will be verified, and reference checks may be done; errors or missing information may lower your rating or 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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Describe each job clearly with specific dates and duties, because the agency will not assume your experience.
- The 2-page resume limit does not apply here, but you still need a complete long-form resume or CV.
- If you use education to qualify, attach your transcript; foreign degrees also need a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.
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