Self-nomination is the act of indicating the specific vacancy announcements for which you want to be considered. There are certain steps you must take to nominate yourself for a federal position. As agency requirements may differ, you must carefully follow requirements as provided by each agency.
The following is reprinted from the Defense Finance & Accounting Service Web site.
All applicants must indicate the specific vacancy announcements for which they want to be considered. We call this self-nominating. You will only be considered for the jobs whose announcement numbers you provide in your first resume or by submitting a Self-Nomination form. Before submitting your resume for the first time, or before self-nominating subsequent to submitting a resume, locate the vacancy announcement(s) for Resume Builder position(s) for which you want to be considered.
The federal Resume Builder is an online tool with which you essential build your resume on the agency’s Web site. Certain job vacancy announcements will require you to use the Resume Builder.
For each Resume Builder announcement you'll need the:
- Vacancy announcement number.
- Location(s) of the position(s).
- Grade level(s) being filled.
It doesn't matter whether the vacancy announcement is a one-time announcement or an extended announcement. You need to self-nominate for both kinds of announcements.
There is no need for you to repeat a vacancy announcement number for an amended announcement. For example, if announcement XH-0001-01 has been amended once, it will also be shown as XH-0001-01A on the list of vacancy announcements on the Web site. Do not list both XH000101 and XH000101A; list only XH000101.
There is no limit on the number of vacancy announcement numbers you can submit at one time. You can also submit new self-nominations as often as you wish. All the new self-nominations are appended to the existing data. In other words, new data is added to the old data, which continually accumulates as new self nominations are added.
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