Your steps to apply

Store Associate
Defense Commissary Agency · Hill AFB, Utah and 4 more · Closes in 185 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: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), Military spouses, The public.

This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen or national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition and military spouse eligibility groups are also listed.

Experience: One year of progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that shows you can learn the skills needed for this job. This is called general experience.

Education: Two full years of completed education above high school at an accredited business, secretarial, technical school, junior college, college, or university. You can also combine experience and education to qualify. Transcripts are required if you use education.

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 of no more than two pages showing hours worked per week, dates, and duties Unofficial transcripts if you use education to qualify Copy of your most recent SF-50 if you are a current DeCA employee Written proof from the armed forces if you are on active duty and separating within 120 days Answers to the online assessment questionnaire

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 185 days (April 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

This open continuous announcement has an initial cut-off date 14 days after the open date. Applications received after that date are only considered if more vacancies are added later.

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 answer an online questionnaire that rates your experience in clerical and administrative work, communications, customer service, electronic checkout, safety and housekeeping, and store operations. Applications that are incomplete, use encrypted files, or overstate qualifications can be rated ineligible.

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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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Your resume must show the hours you worked per week for each job, or it may be judged incomplete.
Keep your resume to two pages or less, because longer resumes are removed from consideration.
If you use education to qualify, upload transcripts with your application, since they are required.

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