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Program Analyst
Joint Activities · Fort Meade, Maryland · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. You must also meet at least one of the employment authority categories listed in the announcement, such as veterans' preference.
Experience: You need one year of specialized experience, which means work directly related to this job. Examples include reviewing publications, policies, and directives for accuracy and compliance, managing a publications program or library, coordinating publication updates, and helping develop standard operating procedures. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.
Education: Education cannot replace experience for this job, so you must qualify using experience alone.
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 5, 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: Your application will be reviewed against the listed qualifications using your resume, questionnaire answers, and supporting documents. Missing information or errors can lower your rating or make you ineligible, and inflated qualifications can cost you 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, a security clearance (Top Secret), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Upload your full resume to your USAJOBS profile as Other Documents, since the two-page limit does not apply.
- Re-select your other documents in the online application, or your application may be incomplete.
- Do not include any classified information in your application, or it will not be considered.
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