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Post by zero on May 21, 2010 12:10:23 GMT -5
Anyone received one yet?
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Post by 71stretch on May 21, 2010 12:29:55 GMT -5
Guess not, given the number of views and no responses. If the initial email is just to let you know you are on the cert (as I read here): aljdiscussion.proboards.com/index.cgi I would think that should happen SOON. But if they really are on the interview schedule posted here, the actual scheduling should be happening next week at the latest, I would think.
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Post by milagros on May 21, 2010 12:53:27 GMT -5
Yes, in the past, the initial e-mail was just to tell you that you were on the cert. There were several attachments that needed to be filled out and returned by a certain date. (One of the attachments was the Geographic Availability List.) Then the interviews were scheduled.
June 7 is a little over two weeks away. They could still do it as they have done in the past, or possibly they could collapse the notification and scheduling into one step to save time. Sheer speculation on my part.
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Post by Propmaster on May 21, 2010 13:07:43 GMT -5
Oh my GOODNESS. Could you have maybe titled the thread, "Any Emails from SSA yet?"
I was so disappointed that people were reporting e-mails and I hadn't gotten one (until I clicked it open - but that 1 second of time was VERY disappointing!)
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Post by tricia on May 21, 2010 13:12:49 GMT -5
Propmaster, a lot of people are pulling for you. You've been in this process a long time.
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Post by maxlaw on May 21, 2010 13:19:10 GMT -5
Propmaster, a lot of people are pulling for you. You've been in this process a long time. [/size]I know I'm pulling for him. And Zero. And you, and many others. It's funny how many people I've developed a rooting interest in just from reading the story of their struggles.
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Post by ALJD on May 21, 2010 13:40:13 GMT -5
Oh my GOODNESS. Could you have maybe titled the thread, "Any Emails from SSA yet?" I was so disappointed that people were reporting e-mails and I hadn't gotten one (until I clicked it open - but that 1 second of time was VERY disappointing!) Fixed. Please don't accidentally stress out fellow board members.
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Post by george007 on May 21, 2010 14:01:35 GMT -5
Hopefully thick skin isn't a qualification.
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Post by hope on May 21, 2010 14:16:24 GMT -5
Propmaster, I felt the same way you did--this will be my fourth time on the cert if I make it and my heart dropped when I saw the title as well...maybe those of you who feel we need thicker skin will understand when you've sat through three rounds of hires with decent scores but no calls.
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Post by zero on May 21, 2010 14:36:39 GMT -5
Oh my GOODNESS. Could you have maybe titled the thread, "Any Emails from SSA yet?" I was so disappointed that people were reporting e-mails and I hadn't gotten one (until I clicked it open - but that 1 second of time was VERY disappointing!) Fixed. Please don't accidentally stress out fellow board members. It's late on a Friday afternoon. I figured everyone could use a good jolt.
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Post by lawdog98 on May 21, 2010 15:13:09 GMT -5
Now we all can appreciate how the claimant's must feel waiting and hearing only the cold silence screaming back at them.
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Post by Propmaster on May 21, 2010 15:23:49 GMT -5
Now we all can appreciate how the claimant's must feel waiting and hearing only the cold silence screaming back at them. Amen.
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Post by 71stretch on May 21, 2010 15:24:36 GMT -5
I've about talked myself into taking a break from the waiting game until next week. I've got a lot to do this weekend, decisions to write, laundry to do, sunshine to enjoy.... now we will see if I can stick to it and NOT check this site. I check my email anyway, but....
Happy waiting, everyone, however you choose to get through it!
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Post by doodlemom on May 21, 2010 15:24:44 GMT -5
I'm still a little confused on the process from here on out. If someone could explain, I would be very grateful. If we make it onto a certificate, does that mean we absolutely will be having an interview in Falls Church? Or does getting on the certificate mean there is a "chance" of being interviewed? If you do get the Falls Church interview pursuant to the cert, then the next step is an offer or no offer?
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Post by hurrywait on May 21, 2010 15:33:09 GMT -5
If you get on the cert, and haven't already been interviewed by the agency, you will be interviewed. If you were on a previous cert, and were already interviewed, you will not be interviewed again.
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Post by redwhiteblue on May 21, 2010 15:33:35 GMT -5
My understanding is that if you make it onto the certificate, you will get an agency interview unless you have already been on prior certificate with the same agency and already had the agency interview.
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Post by doodlemom on May 21, 2010 15:35:46 GMT -5
OK, thanks for clearing that up
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Post by milagros on May 21, 2010 15:37:28 GMT -5
Yes, if you make it on to a certificate, then you will be interviewed in Falls Church. (Unless, of course, you have already been interviewed by SSA/ODAR.) After the interview, then the next step is offer or no offer. (And as for taking a break from this site---I can quit any time I want to. )
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Post by ladyatlaw on May 22, 2010 13:04:35 GMT -5
Yes, if you make it on to a certificate, then you will be interviewed in Falls Church. (Unless, of course, you have already been interviewed by SSA/ODAR.) After the interview, then the next step is offer or no offer. (And as for taking a break from this site---I can quit any time I want to. ) I pray to make it onto that illustrious Cert as well, fellow hopefuls. Milagros...I love your sense of humor!
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Post by diceman on May 24, 2010 13:32:51 GMT -5
I had almost forgotten about this site and certainly thought it was safe to read my e-mail again and then . . . an e-mail from Bob Gehlken. I really shouldn't complain, but I've been getting these e-mails for a couple of years. "We are pleased to inform you that OPM, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then a few months later - thanks but no thanks. I'm beginning to wonder whether there is a Bob Gehlken, and whether there really is an SSA, or maybe it's all a cruel hoax. Maybe my plane has crashed on an island in the Pacific and I'm really a neurosurgeon, or the caretaker of some source of polar-bear nourishing bright light. Or maybe I'm a counterintelligence type who is about to foil yet another terrorist plot. Am I just ranting or do I need someone to throw cold water on me so I wake up out of this dream?
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