Post by wdcsmp on Nov 6, 2007 21:59:51 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing your experience. My feeling is that OPM slapped together a process to come up with a register due to Congressional pressure about agency backlogs. Having done that, I don't think they're going to respond to much of anything from me about how they did it. The right to appeal your rating when they've given us no information on appeable issues is pretty much a sham. You just know there's some scoring mechanism that allowed them to blast through 600 exams and interviews that is less than thorough.
I did notice that the reg on ALJ examinations (5 CFR 930.203(d)) requires personal reference inquiry as a component of overall score, in addition to written demonstration and panel interview. I know they've not made any inquiry to "contact persons" that I listed in my AR, thus violating their own regs in coming up with a score. That, however, isn't going to advance the ball much for me (if at all), given the contacts I listed. The right to appeal one's rating is also guaranteed in the regs (5 CFR 930.203(g)), but the reg gives no guidance on how to appeal.
I did notice that the reg on ALJ examinations (5 CFR 930.203(d)) requires personal reference inquiry as a component of overall score, in addition to written demonstration and panel interview. I know they've not made any inquiry to "contact persons" that I listed in my AR, thus violating their own regs in coming up with a score. That, however, isn't going to advance the ball much for me (if at all), given the contacts I listed. The right to appeal one's rating is also guaranteed in the regs (5 CFR 930.203(g)), but the reg gives no guidance on how to appeal.