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Printing Specialist
Treasury, Departmental Offices · Washington, District of Columbia · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).
The job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national, and displaced federal employees eligible under CTAP or ICTAP get priority consideration.
Experience: You need 1 year (52 full weeks) of experience at about the GS-7 level in federal service. It must include reviewing printing before final proofs, processing or writing contract orders, working on a project team, and handling printed products from one spot color to 4-color printing.
Education: A master's or equivalent graduate degree, 2 full years of progressively higher graduate education toward such a degree, or an LL.B. or J.D. if related, can replace the specialized experience. Your major must be in one of these subjects: journalism, business administration, English composition, commerce, accounting, printing or printing engineering, graphic or commercial art, industrial engineering, or economics. You may also combine experience and education, but only graduate education beyond the first 18 semester hours counts toward this.
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 tomorrow (November 4, 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your resume, questionnaire answers, and an online USA Hire assessment that measures skills such as attention to detail, teamwork, and stress tolerance. Your rating places you in Category A, B, or C, which decides whether you are referred to the hiring manager, and a subject-matter expert may review your application. Overstating your experience or cheating on the 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:
- Your resume must show month/day/year dates and hours worked per week for each job, or you may not get full credit.
- Keep your resume to two pages, because longer resumes are removed from consideration.
- If you qualify by education, be ready to send official transcripts before any job offer.
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