Your steps to apply

Store Worker
Defense Commissary Agency · Mountain Home AFB, Idaho · Closes in 5 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.

The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, a national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Career transition applicants and military spouses of active duty service members also get priority or preference.

Experience: Paid or unpaid work counts, including volunteer work. Experience that qualifies includes handling grocery stock, locating items for customers, rotating stock, using a computer to price and label items, and arranging shelves and displays. The announcement does not give a required number of years or a grade-level match.

Education: You may not use education to qualify for this position.

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, saved as a PDF Resume showing work schedule, hours per week, dates of employment, and duties performed Completed online assessment questionnaire SF-50 showing your current position, if you are a DeCA employee DD-214 if you claim veterans' preference SF 15 if you claim 10-point veterans' preference Documents required for any eligibility you select, listed in the DLA supporting documentation guide

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 5 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: HR reviews your documents and questionnaire score, which is a preliminary measure. Applicants are rated Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified, and those who clearly fail the screen-out element are rated ineligible. The hiring manager may interview selected applicants.

Apply on USAJOBS ↗

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:

Keep your resume to two pages or less, or it will be removed from consideration.
Include the work schedule, hours per week, dates, and duties for every job on your resume.
Do not include a photo, age, gender, or Social Security number on your resume, and do not upload a PDF portfolio.

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