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Quality Assurance Specialist
U.S. Marshals Service · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · Closes in 3 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Special authorities, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Land and base management, The public, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans, Federal employees - Competitive service, Military spouses, Peace Corps & AmeriCorps Vista, Family of overseas employees.

You must be a U.S. citizen or national. The job is open to the public, but the agency also accepts applicants through special paths, such as current or former career federal employees with competitive status, veterans under VEOA, and people eligible for non-competitive hiring authorities like Schedule A (a hiring path for people with disabilities).

Experience: You need one year (12 months) of specialized experience at or above the GS-12 level in federal service. Specialized experience means work that gave you the skills for this job, such as running an aircraft quality program, monitoring maintenance for defects, evaluating quality programs, and investigating quality problems to recommend fixes.

Education: This job has no education requirement, so you qualify through experience.

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.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume showing employer, month/year dates, hours per week, job title, duties, and federal pay plan-series-grade if federal Cover letter (optional) SF-50 showing competitive status and time-in-grade, if you are a current or former federal employee Most recent performance appraisal, if you are a status candidate Incentive awards, if you are a status candidate DD-214 showing honorable service, if you claim veterans' preference SF-15 Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference, if you claim it Copies of FAA certificates, if you want credit for them

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: You are rated on your resume, the occupational questionnaire, and USA Hire online assessments that measure 13 skills, including attention to detail, reasoning, and teamwork. Overstating your experience or cheating on an assessment can get you removed from consideration.

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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/year dates and hours per week for each job, or that experience may not count.
Only the first two pages of work experience are reviewed, so put your aircraft quality work there.
Attach copies of your FAA Mechanic and Inspection Authorization certificates, or they will not get credit.

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