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Physical Scientist – Direct Hire Authority
National Park Service · Orick, California · Closes in 7 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
Open only to U.S. citizens or nationals and to career transition eligibles (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL). Veterans' preference does not apply to this job.
Experience: You need at least one full year of specialized experience at the GS-9 level in the federal service, public or private. Specialized experience means protecting, monitoring, or managing physical or abiotic resources in park areas or similar work in geology, soils, hydrology, air quality, climate, or geomorphology. You must list hours per week for each job on your resume.
Education: A degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. You can also combine course work like this with experience. Three full academic years of graduate study toward a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in a related field also qualifies.
Licenses and certifications:
- Valid driver's license, which you must keep throughout employment
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 7 days (November 10, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This job will close once 100 applications are received, which may happen before the 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: Your qualifications are rated from your resume, your questionnaire answers, and a pass/fail USA Hire assessment covering attention to detail, flexibility, integrity, interpersonal skills, reading comprehension, and teamwork. Overstating experience or cheating on an assessment can get you removed 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:
- Give hours per week and full-time or part-time for every job on your resume, or that time may not be credited.
- Submit all undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and make sure they list credit hours and majors.
- Remove photos from all documents and do not upload Adobe portfolio files.
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