Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
The specialty's credit card, open market, and Federal Supply Schedule purchasing duties directly overlap with civilian procurement of goods and services.
How to prepare: Build a sample procurement package for a facility repair, including a service specification, bid comparison, and purchase order.
What the civilian work involves
- Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.
- Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price and in correct amounts.
- Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Adobe Acrobat