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Post by privateatty on Oct 4, 2013 16:30:44 GMT -5
great to see all the SECers representin'. We still don't get how you folks can do it with relatively few recruiting scandals. other conferences need to take a page from your booster support book. I don't quite get observer 53's view that your odds are not that much improved if the person(s) ahead of you for that city get eliminated for whatever reason. Aljfaq is acting on the presumption that he's one of three being interviewed for a particular slot. It doesn't work that way. They don't call it Puzzle Palace for nothing. How many spots, what spots he actually gets considered for, which spots are filled first, 10 point vets, and all the other variables that make the Puzzle Palace what it is play into this scenario. There have been times. I think, when someone has turned down an offer, and the slot ended up not getting filled. That may not happen with this shiny new register, though. And, all this is academic until we know how high his score is. I would agree with everything that you've stated--with the slight caveat that we aren't really going to know what a high score is on this new test without alot of data. And history has shown that it takes alot of participation and polling to get that--and then it has to be extrapolated. For instance, since this is a new scoring system let's say aljfaq reports a 90.32. You report a 91.56. We assume high scores right? But then we have 5 or 6 here who report scores in the 90s (notably more than a few of them are 10 pt. vets who got their bump). So who will end up on what cert is all a guessing game and assumes that OMHA or Labor pull certs which is a mighty big if. Given the present funding climate and SSA's needs being the obvious priority, I think that they will be the only hiring Agency in 2014. Maybe another Agency will hire off the Register and pull a cert, but I think that is only going to happen if there is something more than CRs at the sequester level. Otherwise, Agencies are not going to have the $ to hire new Judges--even to fill retirement slots. Hey, I hope I'm wrong...
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Post by epic0ego on Oct 4, 2013 17:48:13 GMT -5
good analysis privateatty. I hope you are wrong too, but I don't think you are. Medicare Hearings may be able to demonstrate their need for funding since their claimants are not covered by Obamacare and more and more people are covered by medicare. If so, they will need to pull names off the register. For labor, I think it will depend largely upon the 2014 mid-term elections.
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Post by usnrcwo on Oct 5, 2013 8:20:31 GMT -5
Tonight's top ten list: Top ten reasons to take that city on your wide-open GAL you were offered: 10. You can easily find it on a map within 40 minutes. 9. At least two of the nine ALJs there are deemed "essential" during a shutdown. 8. You've already got connections there like that guy you met at a conference 17 years ago that died 16 years ago. 7. There is a Starbucks the next state over. 6. The leeches only bother you when it's not raining. 5. Lurker doesn't have dibs on it. 4. If you say "LBMT" out loud you can be arrested. 3. Four words: "Miss River Mussel Pageant." 2. Average temperature stays at a nice 50 degrees warmer than Room 1350 so if you bring a parka you'll be fine. And the number one reason to take that city on your wide-open GAL you were offered: 1. You got an offer. Just read this and I must say: 3. Four words: "Miss River Mussel Pageant." Made me laugh out loud.
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Post by westernalj on Oct 19, 2013 12:55:07 GMT -5
I wonder if we will see another effect from the increase in individuals on the register who had limited understanding of the ALJ hiring process (in addition to the apparent increase in limited GALs). Does it seem possible that these applicants didn't fully appreciate how long it takes for the register to be created and that the hiring occurs in waves over several years. And thus perhaps more of them will drop off the register over time, because they've found other jobs in which they were equally interested or for other reasons.
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