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Post by deadwood on Sept 20, 2007 13:12:53 GMT -5
Were your verifiers contacted? Neither mine, nor my friends' verifiers have been contacted.
I'm curious as to how the verifiers, if at all, fit into the scoring. Seems to me that the verifiers should have been calculated into who made the initial cut.
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Post by nonamouse on Sept 20, 2007 14:44:26 GMT -5
I doubt that they will contact these people unless they are considering giving an offer. It would be a massive effort to contact 6 times 650 or whatever number advanced to SI and WD.
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Post by judicature on Sept 20, 2007 19:48:05 GMT -5
did everyone use 6 verifiers? I had some repeats in different areas.
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Post by chieftain on Sept 21, 2007 10:00:29 GMT -5
I used six. Considered repeats but wanted to have as many people contributing something positive as possible, in the event that they were contacted. I don't think it makes much of a difference now.
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Post by southerner on Sept 21, 2007 11:05:09 GMT -5
I had 6 different verifiers. No one has been contacted at this point.
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Post by lawandorder on Sept 21, 2007 12:40:35 GMT -5
During the ALJ application process which started back in May 4, I immediately completed my application over the weekend and thereafter started contacting my potential verifiers, among them, federal judges, prosecutors, and capital partners. I had a hard time trying to get hold of them and trying to gather info. as to where they could be located. But, ultimately, I was able to speak to each one of them, and they all kindly endorsed my application. By the time I spoke to my last potential verifier, the announcement was closed. I could not get my application in, and was left out. Looking backwards, I now regret that I let a day or two go by while waiting to get a response from a potential verifier rather than submitting my completed application. Thus, I missed the train. I guess I learned my lesson.
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Post by privateatty on Sept 21, 2007 15:08:12 GMT -5
lawandorder:
Alot of us feel your pain. There has been no quarter shown. The many years of litigation necessary to advance has ill-prepared us for what we have witnessed and experienced. A bit ironic in the face of being a future SSA judge. Maybe there is a method in this?
Those that got through had greased the skids (i.e. anticipation) or floated a kite on a string or did not take voicemail for an answer. Too much pent-up demand. Good luck and keep the faith. There will be another round.
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Post by deltajudge on Sept 30, 2007 17:25:24 GMT -5
As a few of you know I am a retired ALJ. I applied under the old announcement 318 back in 1974. It was somewhat involved and complicated. You had to list all the cases you had been involved in and the Judges and lawyers you were involved with for the last 7 years. You also had to detail the issues in selected cases, giving the participants. The agency sent out vouchers to these people to evaluate you. A lot of them sent copies to me of what they had submitted. I was in the Atlanta region and having passed the first level, went to Atlanta for my interview. I went before a three person panel, one was a representative of the civil service (now opm), a local lawyer and the other an SSA ALJ. That was fun, I probably should have been a little more careful fielding their questions, but I passed and got on the register. One thing I found out, being a Worker's Comp Judge, which I was before then, is there are a lot of folks out there that don't like you. Lawyers that is.
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Post by deltajudge on Sept 30, 2007 17:42:15 GMT -5
I forgot to say that after you sent your application in, they scheduled a 3 hour test for you before your interview. They would have a local civil service employee to monitor it it, and the test was basically an appellate brief on a point of law.
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