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Pipefitter
Veterans Health Administration · Salem, Virginia · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
This job is open to the public, but applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition applicants (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) and eligible displaced federal employees get priority over other applicants.
Experience: No specific length of experience is required, but you must show training or experience that is strong enough to do the work. Preferred: 5 or more years of maintenance and repair work in a commercial, industrial, or hospital setting. Applicants are rated under OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards, and no grade level is stated.
Education: This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Licenses and certifications:
- Journeyman plumbing license (preferred, not required)
- Med-Gas certification (preferred, not required)
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 3 days (November 6, 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: First, a screen-out question on the online questionnaire checks whether you meet the minimum qualifications; applicants who do not are removed. Those who pass are rated on job elements such as equipment installation, blueprint reading, measurement and layout, technical practices, troubleshooting, tool use, and working without more than normal supervision.
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:
- Describe your piping, plumbing, or maintenance work in detail on your resume, since VA will not assume experience you do not list.
- Keep your resume to two pages or less; longer resumes make you ineligible.
- Complete the online questionnaire and upload all required documents in one submission before the closing time, because incomplete applications are deemed ineligible.
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