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Supervisory Medical Support Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Columbus, Ohio · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, 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. The agency also says current permanent VA employees at the Chalmers P. Wylie facility and current permanent VA employees are eligible.
Experience: No experience is required for the basic requirements. To qualify for GS-8, you need one year of creditable experience equivalent to GS-7, which the announcement describes as advanced knowledge of managing or leading patient support staff in a clinic.
Education: You need a high school diploma, a GED, or a proficiency certificate from a state or territorial board of education. Only degrees and coursework from accredited schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education count.
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 tomorrow (November 4, 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, and your application, resume, and documents will be verified. Errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible, and reference checks may be done.
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:
- Make your long-form resume or CV specific, with dates and hours per week, because the agency verifies everything.
- If you use education to qualify, attach official transcripts from an accredited school.
- Complete the full online questionnaire and upload all required documents before the deadline, since incomplete packages can affect your rating.
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