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Nursing Assistant (Rehabilitation)
Veterans Health Administration · Palo Alto, California · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
This job is open to the public, but only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. may apply. It is also open to current federal employees of the hiring agency.
Experience: Six months of general experience that shows you can learn nursing assistant work qualifies you for GS-3. For GS-4, you need one year of specialized experience as a nursing assistant or in another medical field, such as practical nurse or health technician; for GS-5, you need one year of progressively more responsible experience at the GS-4 level.
Education: One year of college courses related to nursing assistant work can qualify you for GS-3, and so can an intensive job-related training course of less than one year. Two years of college with health-related courses qualifies for GS-4. A bachelor's degree, or a 4-year program with 24 semester hours of health-care courses, qualifies for GS-5. Education must come from a school accredited by the U.S. Department of 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 6 days (November 9, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This job will close when 50 applications are received, which may happen before the stated 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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your online questionnaire, resume and supporting documents. The agency verifies your information and may run reference checks. 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 past job clearly with dates and duties, because the agency will not assume your experience.
- If you use education to qualify, attach official transcripts from an accredited school.
- Make sure you can work a 12-hour night shift with rotating weekends and holidays before you apply.
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