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Physician- Ophthalmology
Veterans Health Administration · Miami, Florida · Closes in 3 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency, Veterans, The public, Federal employees - Competitive service.

Open to the public, and also to federal employees and veterans. You must be a U.S. citizen, but non-citizens may be appointed if qualified citizens cannot be recruited. Veterans and some of their eligible family members may get veterans' preference.

Education: You need a medical degree (MD or DO) from a school approved for the year you finished. You must have completed an accredited ophthalmology residency and be board certified in ophthalmology.

Licenses and certifications:

Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia
Board certification in ophthalmology

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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume or C.V. (the announcement gives the standard one-page VA Clinical Resume download) Full resume or C.V. without page limit in the Other upload field Most recent SF-50 if you are a current permanent VA or federal employee DD-214 if you claim veterans' preference SF-15 with proof if you claim 10-point preference Proof of eligibility if you claim sole survivorship preference

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 3 days (November 6, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

This announcement may close before the listed closing date if the position is filled another way.

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 basic qualifications listed. Your application, resume and supporting documents will be checked, and errors or missing information may hurt your chances. VA also runs pre-employment reference checks.

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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:

Check the Required Documents section closely because it gives two different instructions for the resume upload field.
If you cannot apply online before the closing date, contact the agency and include CBTC-13102497-27-DRD in the Notes field.
Make sure your medical license is full and unrestricted and your ophthalmology board certification is current before you apply.

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