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Rangeland Management Specialist
Bureau of Land Management · Burley, Idaho and 5 more · Closes in 4 days
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Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
Open to U.S. citizens and nationals, and to career transition eligibles (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL). Status candidates and Field Unit Local Hiring eligibles can also apply under separate announcements, and you must apply to each one separately.
Experience: For GS-7, you need 1 full year of experience comparable to GS-5 that includes public land grazing work, range inventory with field data collection, or grazing plan development. For GS-9, you need 1 year comparable to GS-7 in range inventory and monitoring and in helping develop range management plans. For GS-11, you need 1 year comparable to GS-9 leading range inventory and monitoring, working with comparable lands, and developing range management plans.
Education: You need a bachelor's degree or higher in range management or a directly related field with 42 semester hours: 18 in range management, 15 in plant, animal, and soil sciences (at least one course in each), and 9 in related resource management subjects. For GS-7, one full year of graduate study in range management or a related field can qualify, or a bachelor's degree in a qualifying field with top third class standing, a 3.0 GPA (or 3.5 in your major), or honor society membership. For GS-9, a master's degree or two years of progressively higher graduate study can qualify. For GS-11, three years of progressively higher graduate study or a Ph.D. can qualify.
Licenses and certifications:
- Valid driver's license, which you must keep throughout employment
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 4 days (November 9, 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: Applicants are rated in Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified categories based on the resume, the application questionnaire, and a Structured Resume Review. You will be assessed on compliance inspection, interpersonal skills, planning and evaluating, rangeland management, and technology application. Overstating experience, false statements, or cheating on an assessment may 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 be two pages or less and state full-time or hours per week for every job, or that experience may not be credited.
- If you use education to qualify, submit transcripts showing name, school, grades, credit hours, majors, GPA or class rank, and degree date; typed course lists are not accepted.
- Apply separately to each announcement you want considered, and attach DD-214 if you claim veterans preference.
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