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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its better than doc review and you can still apply for other jobs while working at the BVA or SSA for that matter.  Some folks have transferred from BVA to Office of General Counsel at Veterans or other agenices.[/quote]

BVA is a trap job for doc reviewers. Yes, BVA is better than doc review in terms of salary. But, BVA forces a large percentage of new attorneys to resign within months of starting the job. So these attorneys end up back at doc review, but with the addition of a forced termination on their record. Not a good outcome in my view.[/quote]

I think you are still better off trying it if you can.  Even if you do resign (and that's not a forgone conclusion), you will at least have time on your resume as a (closer to) real attorney than  doc reviewer.[/quote]

Many doc reviewers do take the jump to BVA. Some succeed at BVA but for those who don’t, their future career paths in the federal government are limited as many federal agencies, such as the Postal Service, expressly forbid they hiring of former federal employees who left the government due to termination or forced resignation.[/quote]

If you resign, how would it show up on your record later?  Even with the Trump EO (that probably now has, or will soon be, rescinded), there seemed to be ways around it if you resigned before formal action was taken.[/quote]

Anyone who is forced to resign in lieu of termination has a duty to disclose the forced resignation. This duty applies even when the agency offers the employee  a clean record (which relates to your comment about the Trump EO). If you don’t disclose the forced resignation and the agency finds about it, you can be fired and prohibited from working in the federal government.

http://askthelawyer.federaltimes.com/2013/05/09/by-resigning-you-cant-hide-pending-disciplinary-action/[/quote]

But in the real world . . . [/quote]

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