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Police Officer-Combat Arms Training (T32)
Air National Guard Units · Montgomery, Alabama · Closes in 24 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, Federal employees - Competitive service, National Guard and reserves, The public.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. You must be a member of the Alabama Air National Guard in a grade from SSG to MSG, or be eligible to join right away.
Experience: You need 1 year of experience at the GS-7 level, meaning work that gave you knowledge of laws and law enforcement and responsibility for order and protecting life and property. This can include police work, military police service, criminal investigations, or similar work. You must describe this experience in your own words.
Education: The announcement lists no education that can qualify you. Experience is the way to qualify.
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 24 days (November 28, 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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications. If you are minimally qualified, your resume is compared with your questionnaire answers, and your rating may be adjusted or you may be removed if you rated yourself higher than your application supports.
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 (Secret), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume must show hours worked per week and month and year dates for each job.
- Describe your experience in your own words; copying the announcement or position description may get you disqualified.
- If you are unsure you can join the National Guard, call the Alabama Air National Guard recruiter at (800) 864-6264 before applying.
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