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Workforce and Interagency Programs Specialist
National Institute of Standards and Technology · Gaithersburg, Maryland · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL).
This job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S.
Experience: You need 1 year (52 weeks) of specialized experience at the GS-12 level, which NIST calls ZP-III. Specialized experience means work with STEM workforce ecosystems, data and competency modeling and reporting, or building engagement opportunities for technical communities. Paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, counts.
Education: A degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science or related engineering science, such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, or electronics. You can also combine education with experience. Foreign education must be evaluated by an accredited organization.
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).
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: Your application is checked to see whether you meet the qualifications, and subject-matter experts may review the first two pages of your resume. Overstating your experience can get you removed, and applicants are not rated and ranked under direct hire authority. Competencies include education and training, interpersonal skills, technical competence, and writing.
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:
- Show the month and year and the hours worked per week for each experience entry, or it may not count.
- Put your most relevant experience in the first two pages, because only those pages are reviewed.
- You must certify that your four narrative answers are your own words and not written with a consultant or AI tool.
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