Assessment Questionnaire

About Assessment Questionnaire

This questionnaire collects information about your experience, education, knowledge, and skills in order to determine your qualifications for the position. These questions are managed by the hiring agency, and vary according to their needs.

The Assessment Questionnaire may have any number of sections, and the Navigation Box will list them so you can easily return to any section at any time.

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Instructions for the Assessment Questionnaire

1. Provide answers to the questions in each section as needed, and verify that they are accurate.

2. Click Next to move to the next step along the path, or click Save before taking any other action. Your work is saved when you click Next or Previous.

Figure 1: a typical Assessment Questionnaire

Required Narrative Text Boxes

If you press the Next or Previous in Application Manager, but the page does not change, it is possible that the Assessment Questionnaire page contains required narrative text boxes. If a required narrative text box is left empty, the page will not save until some text is added to each required narrative text box.

To check for required narrative text boxes, click Next. Any required narrative text boxes will be marked with "Required" in red text.

To efficiently respond to the required narratives given the 20-minute timeout rule in Application Manager, the following steps are recommended.  Taking these steps first will satisfy the 'required' narrative text boxes and allow you to save your data as you complete each narrative item.  If the narrative box does not apply to you, simply enter "N/A" or "Not Applicable" into the box.

1. In each narrative box, please enter a letter..."A", for example, so that you can save the answers to the multiple choice portion of the Assessment Questionnaire first.  Do this for the entire Assessment Questionnaire--but DO NOT submit it yet

2. Use View/Print My Answers in the Task Manager on the left to view your questions and answers and the narrative text box instructions

3. Draft your responses outside of Application Manager in Word, Notepad or another program.

4. Log back into your Application Manager account, open the Application Package for this position and select Complete Application Package to continue working on the Assessment Questionnaire.

5. Copy and paste your narrative responses into the appropriate boxes.

6. If a narrative text box does not apply to you, simply enter "N/A" or "Not Applicable" into the box.

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