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[quote=Anonymous][quote] you bring up another great point.  When I applied, they promised they would take your real world experience into account when deciding your starting salary/grade.

That's another lie they tell you. Everyone starts at GS 11-1 whether you have one year of litigation experience or 20 years of litigation experience.  I have heard of a few exceptions for people who worked at SSA.  they may start at GS-11 but at a higher grade level.  If you do not have that specific prior experience you will start at GS 11-1, despite what they promise during the recruitment process. [/quote]

The position they hire is GS-11, but steps are negotiable [i googled it when I was job searching]. At BVA, I had to ask after I got the tentative offer and was told the process. I asked for a higher step than I got, but I did get several steps. The final offer included the additional steps. I did not work at SSA but did have experience writing rulings in another agency.

That said, my experience is the majority of the job is file review and notation with much less time writing. Judges want their opinions to be very similar, it makes it easier to process them quickly. The judges are also writers themselves, so they mostly need someone to fill in the blanks about procedural history and evidence in the file and boilerplate and they can tweak it. The snippets are there for a reason.

The job wasn’t horrible but I found the files deadly dull and/or depressing and I did not need to stay long to know I did not like the work. it’s great for the highly independent who want to work from home or live someplace else and make a good salary while having a lot of freedom to structure their time once they know how to quickly and efficiently work the file and plug and chug. It can be done, you just might not want to do it.
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