Economic Assistant (Part-Time)

Qualifications: Applicants must meet qualifications, legal and regulatory requirements for the position by the closing date of this announcement. GS-05: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-04 level. Specialized experience is the experience that is in or related to the work of the position being filled which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Examples of qualifying experience may include: Experience using personal computers and applications to perform research or related work that involved collecting, compiling, verifying, analyzing, or reporting data; Cold-calling sales, survey, marketing, retail sales or public outreach work; Interviewer or in-take experience that required detailed record-keeping and/or oral persuasion skills with public contact. Education Requirements: Education substitution: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study with a major in economics, or 24 semester hours of courses in subjects such as business law, statistics, algebra, precalculus, calculus, or economics. Equivalent combination of education and experience are qualifying. Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service. If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum course work requirements for this position.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the U.S. Department of Labor.