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This web site is designed to help new college graduates quickly and easily identify current Federal job opportunities for which they qualify based on education. It isn't a perfect tool; only an aid. To illustrate how to use it, suppose your major is Biology. Below are four easy steps to follow.
Step 1. Find the broad educational field that most likely contains your major. Biology is easy. It comes under Biological Sciences. Click on the broad field.
Step 2. A second web page showing many, but not all college majors in the field of Biological Science should next be linked. While all Biological Science majors are not shown, all that appear anywhere in the Qualifications Handbook for Federal Jobs do. Click on Biology.
Step 3. Displayed next will be a list of current Federal job opportunities that require Biology as one of the qualifying fields of college study. This does not mean that you fully qualify for all of these jobs. Some may have an additional course work requirement.
Step 4. Click on any job of interest to you. Read the vacancy announcement to verify your qualifications, review the duties statement, see what the pay will be, who the employing agency is, the geographical duty station, etc. Follow the indicated application procedures if you're qualified and want to apply. It's important to note the announcement closing date. Federal agencies will generally not accept applications postmarked after this date.
Locating Additional Jobs
Because of the way Federal job qualification standards are written, locating all jobs that require a particular major is somewhat more difficult than indicated above. To illustrate this point continue with the assumption that your major is Biology.
Note on the Biological Sciences web page that Biological Science is listed as one of the major fields of study. Biology as a sub-field of Biological Science meets the initial major requirement for any job listed on that web page too, i.e., a degree in Biology is a degree in Biological Science. But
Biology is also a Life Science and a Natural Science listed under the Science (General) broad field of study, and for that matter is a Science (General) too. From the first web page click on Science (General) to see these options.
This means that a graduate with a degree in Biology should check for jobs listed under Biological Science, Life Science, Natural Science, and Science (General), as well as Biology.
You can then click on the "Any Field of Study" option for a list of jobs that have a bachelor's degree in any field as the only educational requirement. There may still be other jobs if, for example, your degree is in Education. The point is you must search diligently for all options.
Admittedly most biologists would not qualify for all jobs identified through this process due to specific course work requirements of some jobs. Neither would they have serious interest in some of the jobs, particularly those that have nothing more than a general degree requirement. But the purpose of the web site is to allow each biologist, or any other college graduate for that matter, to make that personal choice.
Obviously, the search process applies not only to Biology, but to any college degree. Job identification is simply a matter of finding the educational field or fields where a particular major fits and checking all the possibilities.