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Supervisory Personnel Security Specialist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Atlanta, Georgia · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.
This job is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. Veterans' preference applies, and displaced federal employees in career transition programs (CTAP, ICTAP, or RPL) may get selection priority.
Experience: You need one year of specialized experience, meaning work similar to the job's main duties, at a level equal to at least GS-13. That experience must include all of these: supervising employees, managing workforce activities, managing or evaluating personnel security and suitability programs, and analyzing personnel security issues and risks.
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 2 days (November 5, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This job will close once 50 applications are received, which may happen before the closing date.
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: Subject matter experts will review your resume to check whether you meet the specialized experience requirement, and you must answer a minimum qualification question. Some applicants may be invited to a structured interview, and qualified applicants are rated Best Qualified, Well Qualified, or Qualified; overstating your experience or cheating on an assessment can get you removed.
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:
- Give exact start and end dates and hours per week for each job, or your experience may not be credited.
- Do not copy the duties or questionnaire text into your resume, because it will not count as proof of your qualifications.
- Keep your resume to two pages and show experience that matches all four specialized experience areas.
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