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Nursing Assistant – Community Living Center
Veterans Health Administration · Fargo, North Dakota · Closes in 5 days
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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, Federal employees - Competitive service.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Veterans' preference does not apply, and the agency also lists current permanent VA and other federal employees as eligible.
Experience: For GS-3, you need six months of general experience that shows you can learn nursing assistant skills. For GS-4, you need one year of experience as a nursing assistant or in another medical field, such as licensed practical nurse or hospital corpsman. For GS-5, you need one year of progressively responsible experience at the GS-4 level in nursing care.
Education: One year of education above high school with courses related to nursing assistant work meets the basic requirement, as does completing an intensive nursing assistant training program of less than one year. For GS-4, you need two years above high school in nursing, health care, or a related field. For GS-5, you need a four-year program with 24 semester hours of health care courses, or a bachelor's degree.
Licenses and certifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required; training is provided
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 5 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, based on your application, resume, and supporting documents, which will be verified. Missing information, errors, or omissions may make you ineligible or lower your rating, and the VA may run pre-employment reference checks.
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:
- Send a long-form resume or CV; the two-page resume limit does not apply to this job.
- If you use education to qualify, send transcripts showing your name, school, program, total credits, and date conferred.
- Answer every question in the online questionnaire and send the written KSA responses, because missing items can lower your rating.
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