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Psychologist (Pcmhi)
Veterans Health Administration · Phoenix, Arizona · Closes in 58 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
This job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Non-citizens may be hired only when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
Experience: You need at least 2 years of experience as a professional psychologist, including 1 year at the GS-12 level. You also need skills in applying psychological treatments, giving professional consultation, and knowing clinical research. This job is graded at GS-13.
Education: You need a doctoral degree in psychology from a program accredited by APA, PCSAS, or CPA, with a specialty that matches the job. You also need a completed internship accredited by APA or CPA. Other paths exist, such as a doctoral degree in any psychology area plus an approved re-specialization program, or certain older degrees, but they have strict rules.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current, unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or D.C.
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 58 days (December 31, 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 listed. Your application, resume, CV, and supporting documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.
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:
- Include a license, a long-form resume or CV, and a transcript in your package, and submit it by the deadline
- Be ready for fast steps: interviews within days, references within 3-5 days, and pre-employment tasks within 3 days of a tentative offer
- If you use education to qualify, send transcripts and make sure your schools are accredited by a U.S. Department of Education-recognized agency
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