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Post by coolmom on May 13, 2015 10:12:16 GMT -5
While I was given a choice of days for my interview, I was not given a choice of time slots. I was given a time once I picked the day.
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Post by JudgeRatty on May 13, 2015 10:12:44 GMT -5
Just because we had a report of a specific number for one day does not mean that number translates to every other day in the 4 day total.
The actual numbers without extrapolating anything: We had donk report 5 on the 11th, arch reported 4 plus 1 on May 12th, patience reported another 1 on May 12th. Jig reported 5 at a 3:30 session on May 12th. So far we have a confirmed 5 on May 11th (and 5 voted), and 11 on May 12th (and 6 voted) for a total of 16 for the first two days of interviews.
There were only 4 votes for today and tomorrow. IF these are the only people and we captured all for today and tomorrow, we have at least 24 total. I highly doubt we are off by more than a few. Our polls have always been fairly spot on.
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Post by walter on May 13, 2015 10:18:47 GMT -5
I think the number interviewing this week is higher than than. The reports so far are 4 or 5 people interviewing during a given interview time slot. I believe there were 4 interview slots per day for the 2nd cert interviews. So, assuming that remains the same for these interviews, that makes 16-20 interviews per day, for four days, or 64-80 people interviewing this week. Maybe something less than that if the schedule is not full.
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Post by JudgeRatty on May 13, 2015 10:22:26 GMT -5
So, at a minimum there has to be 8 to 15 people interviewed each day. With all due respect to my esteemed friend, this part is not entirely true. They can use local HOCALJs or just not bring as many interviewers in for certain days. The interviewers do not have to stay the whole 4 days, and they all do not have to stay for all sessions. Each group does not have to be equal. There can be 4 in a group and then only have that one group on that particular day. Or they can vary and have 3 time slots with 4 in one and 2 in another. Equal numbers is not something that has to be true.
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Post by JudgeRatty on May 13, 2015 10:27:09 GMT -5
I believe there were 4 interview slots per day for the 2nd cert interviews. So, assuming that remains the same for these interviews, that makes 16-20 interviews per day, for four days, or 64-80 people interviewing this week. Maybe something less than that if the schedule is not full. This interview week is only for those who did not make the earlier certs due to newly added cities for the first time. The size of the group is not even close to the last set of interviews. But hey, I could be totally wrong, but 64-80? No way. We didn't add that many new cities to the cert list to account for that many people who have not interviewed yet. I guess our polls could be completely off by a huge margin, but it would be a first.
Ok, break over, back to work I go!
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Post by Gaidin on May 13, 2015 10:28:47 GMT -5
So, at a minimum there has to be 8 to 15 people interviewed each day. With all due respect to my esteemed friend, this part is not entirely true. They can use local HOCALJs or just not bring as many interviewers in for certain days. The interviewers do not have to stay the whole 4 days, and they all do not have to stay for all sessions. Each group does not have to be equal. There can be 4 in a group and then only have that one group on that particular day. Or they can vary and have 3 time slots with 4 in one and 2 in another. Equal numbers is not something that has to be true. This. When we had interviews before we had lots of people giving progress reports now crickets. I don't really understand why anyone would believe we suddenly reached a pocket of non-board members. Why this set of certs and not others? It just doesn't make sense.
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Post by mikeinthehills on May 13, 2015 10:33:44 GMT -5
While I was given a choice of days for my interview, I was not given a choice of time slots. I was given a time once I picked the day. This is telling. On the second cert interviews, I was offered one of 4 time slots for the day of my interview. Coolmom was just offered a date. I don't think they are conducting 4 (or even 3 or 2 full) sets of interviews a day this week. It just doesn't fit with the polling. The polls may be short some, but they aren't off by a factor of two or three.
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Post by ibnlurkin on May 13, 2015 10:34:34 GMT -5
Any chance candidates were warned off the Board ?
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Post by luckylady2 on May 13, 2015 10:46:22 GMT -5
I had the same as coolmom. Choice of days, then given a time slot
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Post by saaao on May 13, 2015 10:48:08 GMT -5
Any chance candidates were warned off the Board ? I doubt it. The insiders here would have certainly heard about that. And it is not such a drain on resources that only interviewing four to six candidates per day over a 4-5 day period would not be worth the effort.The lack of the choice of time slots this time around would also fit with ODAR setting aside only a half day or so block for interview times rather than full day blocks as had been done for previous hires. I think that it is very likely that OPM only referred a limited number of candidates this time around compared to earlier hiring rounds. While I certainly don't know what their reason is, I can guess at several possible reasons having to do with OPM's logistics and OPM's perception of the integrity of the process ODAR is conducting. Of course who knows. We will find out for sure in a matter of weeks
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Post by ibnlurkin on May 13, 2015 10:49:40 GMT -5
I believe there were 4 interview slots per day for the 2nd cert interviews. So, assuming that remains the same for these interviews, that makes 16-20 interviews per day, for four days, or 64-80 people interviewing this week. Maybe something less than that if the schedule is not full. This interview week is only for those who did not make the earlier certs due to newly added cities for the first time. The size of the group is not even close to the last set of interviews. But hey, I could be totally wrong, but 64-80? No way. We didn't add that many new cities to the cert list to account for that many people who have not interviewed yet. I guess our polls could be completely off by a huge margin, but it would be a first.
Ok, break over, back to work I go!
Interviews are being conducted over four days ... 4 rooms have been reserved for that purpose .... 4 time slots have been allotted ... All time slots and all rooms are not necessarily in use on all four days... on Tuesday all slots were filled for all rooms... On Wednesday and Monday 2 candidates cancelled or did not appear on Thursday the 330 time slot was fully booked....How many people interviewed ? We're drafting the most difficult LSAT logic game question in history !
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Post by JudgeRatty on May 13, 2015 10:50:59 GMT -5
Any chance candidates were warned off the Board ? The board has been THE place to get good intel and this is where intel is routinely reported. Every ALJ in the agency knows about the board including those in headquarters. No one would warn anyone from the board. That's just plain silliness. LOL!
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Post by walter on May 13, 2015 10:59:05 GMT -5
Sratty and Gaidin - I hope you are right. It would be nice to get some further info from the folks interviewing this week as to how many interview time slots per day are taking place.
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Post by sealaw90 on May 13, 2015 11:06:55 GMT -5
This interview week is only for those who did not make the earlier certs due to newly added cities for the first time. The size of the group is not even close to the last set of interviews. But hey, I could be totally wrong, but 64-80? No way. We didn't add that many new cities to the cert list to account for that many people who have not interviewed yet. I guess our polls could be completely off by a huge margin, but it would be a first.
Ok, break over, back to work I go!
Interviews are being conducted over four days ... 4 rooms have been reserved for that purpose .... 4 time slots have been allotted ... All time slots and all rooms are not necessarily in use on all four days... on Tuesday all slots were filled for all rooms... On Wednesday and Monday 2 candidates cancelled or did not appear on Thursday the 330 time slot was fully booked....How many people interviewed ? We're drafting the most difficult LSAT logic game question in history ! Only if we said that three interviewees wore a fedora, one wore a red scarf and two more wore seersucker suits. In which order were they interviewed???
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Post by JudgeRatty on May 13, 2015 11:19:33 GMT -5
Sratty and Gaidin - I hope you are right. It would be nice to get some further info from the folks interviewing this week as to how many interview time slots per day are taking place. Keep in mind these interviews are only for those who had not been interviewed before because they only NOW have a city appearing on the cert list for the first time. A lot of these cities on this list of 62 are repeats and people have already interviewed.
Once we add even more new cities that have not appeared on any cert for this register, those people will be interviewed as well, whenever that happens. But there will be less and less each time interviews happen.
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Post by donk on May 13, 2015 11:30:37 GMT -5
I was also only offered a choice of day and then given the time slot.
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Post by Gaidin on May 13, 2015 11:33:22 GMT -5
While I was given a choice of days for my interview, I was not given a choice of time slots. I was given a time once I picked the day. This and luckylady2 's intel are very telling.
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Post by mamaru on May 13, 2015 11:38:26 GMT -5
I am headed to DC for my daughter's graduation and will arrive a day early. Perhaps I should go station myself in the lobby and conduct exit interviews!
But even that would give us only Thursday, even if I were serious and I'm not. Interviews could be heavier on T, W, Th with M and F travel for out-of-town panels or not. Who knows?
I do agree that the number interviewed each time is going to decrease and we cannot extrapolate from the November cycle.
Good luck to all interviewing this week.
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Post by moopigsdad on May 13, 2015 11:38:39 GMT -5
So, at a minimum there has to be 8 to 15 people interviewed each day. With all due respect to my esteemed friend, this part is not entirely true. They can use local HOCALJs or just not bring as many interviewers in for certain days. The interviewers do not have to stay the whole 4 days, and they all do not have to stay for all sessions. Each group does not have to be equal. There can be 4 in a group and then only have that one group on that particular day. Or they can vary and have 3 time slots with 4 in one and 2 in another. Equal numbers is not something that has to be true. I wouldn't go as far as esteemed friend.....friend yes, esteemed I am not so sure about. LOL! Respect who needs that unless I am wearing a robe, which hasn't happened yet. Now, now we will just agree to disagree on the numbers. Your opinion is as valid as my opinion and everyone know what they say about opinions. So, sratty I accept your opinion, but I do not happen to agree with it.
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Post by mikeinthehills on May 13, 2015 12:00:01 GMT -5
There's nothing like sticking a bunch of lawyers on a discussion forum and throwing out an idle piece of speculation
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