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Sales Store Clerk Positions Open A substantial demand for Sales Store Clerks exists throughout U.
Human Resource Assistants
In Demand
The field offers good advancement and a career
path into professional level positions. Candidates at the
entry-level can qualify without previous job experience.
The latest list of vacancies contains some 367 listings for
Personnel Assistant, GS-0203, throughout the U.S. These include
listings from the Department of Agriculture, Justice and Navy.
Qualifications And
Requirements
A current vacancy announcement describes the duties of
Personnel Clerks and Assistants as follows: "Incumbent is
responsible for processing the full range of personnel actions
and performing related technical and clerical functions. Serves
as the organization's liaison to the Human Resources office.
Monitors, coordinates, and provides information to facilitate the
human resources activities of the work unit. Receives, verifies
proper documentation and processes personnel actions and
information, assuring all regulatory requirements are met and
that records reflect up-to-date information."
No Job Experience
Qualifications for the Personnel Clerk and Assistant are
the same as for other clerical positions. Candidates can be
qualified at entry level without relevant experience by taking
the written clerical exam or by showing relevant skills on their
resume.
At mid-level GS-5/7 candidates can qualify by documenting general
experience in Human Resource work.
At the higher level GS 7/9 candidates qualify by documenting
their specialized experience in the field.
General experience is any clerical or office experience that
provides the basic skills and knowledge to perform the duties of
the position to be filled. In this case general office work
skills.
Specialized experience is experience that provides skills and
knowledge related to the duties of the particular position to be
filled, in this case, human resource work such as that of an
interviewer or application clerk. For all practical purposes
specialized experience means experience working for a Federal
Agency in personnel.
In all cases, education and experience may be combined to meet
experience requirements.
How to Apply
Applicants at the entry level, GS-1 through GS-4, do no
need to have job experience, but may need to take the clerical
exam.
As a result, candidates may need to visit the Agency with the job
to take the test. While a score of 70 is passing, a candidate
should score at least 85 to compete effectively for positions. If
a candidate is found to be qualified by an Agency with
direct-hire authority, he or she may be hired on the spot.
No Exam
Applicants at mid-level, GS-5, do not need to take the
clerical exam. Candidates should scan this website for current
Personnel Assistant, GS-0203
vacancies. These candidates should have
some job experience in the personnel field, or, at least,
well-developed and certified office skills including keyboarding
and office automation skills.
These GS-7 candidates may also cold contact Agencies in the
geographical area in which they wish to work to inquire about job
openings. Candidates should look in local phone directories under
“U.S. Government” to learn what Agencies are located in
a particular area. Cold calling these Agencies may produce an
active lead. When calling the candidate should ask to speak to
the Personnel specialist who handles personnel openings.
Qualifications at GS-7 listed in a current vacancy announcement
are as follows:
Knowledges, Skills and Abilities Required:
1. Knowledge of general functions of the personnel office to
refer visitors to the proper unit, e.g., union problems to the
labor relations unit, or applicants to the employment office.
2. Ability to use personnel forms and procedures to process a
full range of types of official personnel actions.
3. Knowledge of personnel record keeping procedures to maintain
files of personnel regulations, directives, and references.
4. Knowledge of a body of standardized personnel rules,
procedures, or program operations to perform or explain a range
of procedures in support of a personnel specialty or program
area.
5. Ability to follow the flow of requests from origin to
completion and the functions of the various personnel divisions
in relation to the requests.
Candidates may also visit:
Dept of Agriculture
Department of Navy
Dept of Justice
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