USACE New Orleans Marketing and Recruiting Update

 If you are a member of ASCE, NSBE, SWE, SHPE, AISES, Chi-Epsilon, Engineers Without Borders, ASEE, SAME, SAE, SASE, or any other Student Organization, please contact me if you would like for us to speak at any of your meetings or when we visit your school.    

 

If your school was not on our Fall 2022 schedule, please do not take that as anything other than we must ensure we visit as many schools and organizations as possible every recruiting season.  If you would like to ensure that you are added to the Spring-2023 (and future) schedule, by far the easiest method would be interest from your students (and anyone else you represent) with emails and resumes sent to me.   If your school is receiving this, then we are still very much interested in what your school has to offer.   

 

We have an outstanding Public Affairs office, here are several of their videos regarding our organization:      

                              https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/Media/Videos/

 

Here are just some of the detailed facts about USACE New Orleans:

                              https://www.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/

 

Please also consider connecting and following me on LinkedIn (even if you already have found other employment).   Networking is vital to Federal employment.

                              www.linkedin.com/in/scottgemmill

 

You are always welcome to visit our website to learn more about our organization of 1,100+ total employees in our New Orleans district office alone (34,000+ USACE employees around the world):          

                              https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/

 

Please consider these (free) websites regarding advice on your resume:

               

https://gogovernment.org/

               

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/documents/resume/build/

               

https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/account/documents/resume/

               

https://bsosundergrad.umd.edu/sites/bsosundergrad.umd.edu/files/p_51_terp_guide_sample_resume_federal.pdf

               

https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-careers/tips-writing-federal-resume

 

Modern (free) resume templates: 

                              https://www.canva.com/templates/resumes/     

 

If I am in your area, just let me know and I can most certainly give a presentation on federal resumes or just talk to those you represent.    We are currently giving presentations on federal resumes, federal hiring, and USAJobs during these events:

               

               15-November       Clemson University

               16-November       University of Georgia

               17-November     Georgia Tech University

               17-November       Heavy Equipment College Georgia Campus

               18-November     Mississippi State University

 

Just a reminder in order to be employed by USACE New Orleans, as a Department of Defense agency, we require:

               a) Background Investigation for a Secret Clearance

               b) Drug Test

               c) US Citizenship

               d) Physical (for blue collar positions only)

 

FEDERAL INTERNSHIP/CO-OP opportunities:

USACE can now hire applicants for Internship opportunities without going through USAJobs, please contact me DIRECTLY to apply.     If you are available for Fall or Spring Internships, please let us know immediately.

 

Please consider any of these currently open Pathways opportunities listed on USAJobs:

               https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=pathways        

 

Please consider all these currently open Internship opportunities listed on USAJobs:

               https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=Intern     

      

Also consider applying for any of the Department of Defense's STEM Scholarship programs: 

               http://www.dodstem.us/stem-programs/scholarships                   

 

Please consider working with your respective Career Center staff, who have been invaluable resources for us.     Please utilize their immense talents along with everyone else at the respective Career Centers.    

 

Financial, Administrative, Business, HR, Contracts, Instructional and even Legal personnel should also contact me.   We don’t typically utilize Direct Hire for these positions, so please monitor USAJobs daily for these openings.  When we have these openings on USAJobs, they are filled extremely quickly, and the postings are typically only a week or less.      

 

For those of you interested, all our OPM-approved Positional Descriptions are listed here:               

               

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/classifying-general-schedule-positions/occupationalhandbook.pdf

 

https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/Careers/

               

Finally, let us know if you are a Military Veteran, as there are several Special Hiring Authorities that benefit your candidacy.   We will eventually need your DD-214 (member-4), VA Disability Letter, and an SF-15, but please do not send it to me.   Have it ready if we proceed with your candidacy.   You can complete an SF-15 here:                     https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/SF15.pdf   

 

If you are retiring from the military (medical retirement included), you must satisfy a 180-day waiting period until you are able to start employment with any DOD agency.  Those separating do not have to satisfy the waiting period and can be hired immediately upon completion of terminal leave.  

 

Your federal benefits when you start employment with us, and they start on your first day:

               https://www.usa.gov/benefits-for-federal-employees  

 

FINALLY... We have DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY, if you are interested, please directly submit your information to the following email:

 

               Scott.gemmill@usace.army.mil