PS 991

Application for Promotion or Assignment (10/1993)

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This application provides the review committee and selecting official a summary of your education, work experience, and capabilities in specific areas pertinent to the vacant position.

List your education or training and work experience in the spaces provided. Number your entries consecutively in the Reference No. columns, e.g., education or training 1-6, postal positions 7-
10, etc.

The vacancy announcement to which you are responding lists a number of job requirements. In this application you are to provide your qualifications in reference to those requirements.

Your statement of qualification should include a demonstration of the required knowledge, skill, or ability (KSA). All of the requirements should be addressed.

Failure to address each requirement
results in an incomplete application which may lead to your being found unqualified.

Read each of the requirements listed on the vacancy announcement. Consider carefully achievements which demonstrate the KSA specified for that requirement.

Achievements may be either a specific instance or sustained high performance over a period of time.

These achievements may have occurred in all kinds of settings, e.g., paid work in the Postal Service or any other organization, volunteer work, or education or training activities.

For each requirement try to give several examples of achievements that demonstrate that you possess the KSA. Achievements may be best described by telling of a situation or task which needed to be done; stating what action you took; and finally, describing the result of that action. Be sure it is clear to the reader that:

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