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Nursing Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Battle Creek, Michigan · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency, The public.
This job is open to the public and to current permanent VA Medical Center employees and current permanent employees of other federal agencies. You must be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Experience: Six months of general experience that shows you could learn the knowledge and skills of a Nursing Assistant qualifies you for GS-3. GS-4 requires one year of specialized experience as a Nursing Assistant or in another medical field, such as licensed practical nurse or hospital corpsman, and GS-5 requires one year of progressively responsible experience at the GS-4 level.
Education: One year of education above high school with courses related to Nursing Assistant work, or completion of an intensive, occupation-related training program of less than one year. For GS-4, two years above high school with courses related to nursing or health care. For GS-5, a 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree that included 24 semester hours of health care courses, or a bachelor's degree.
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 6 days (November 9, 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: You are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using your application, resume, and supporting documents, which are verified. Errors or missing information can lower your rating or make you ineligible, and pre-employment reference checks are part of the process.
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:
- You do not need the 2-page resume for this job, but send a long-form resume or CV that shows dates and hours worked.
- If you use education to qualify, send an official transcript. Foreign education also needs a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.
- Make sure your photo ID is REAL ID compliant, since non-compliant driver's licenses are not accepted for onboarding.
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