{"id":208,"date":"2016-11-28T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/?p=208"},"modified":"2017-05-14T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T19:52:28","slug":"failing-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/2016\/11\/28\/failing-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing better"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.<\/em> &#8211; Samuel Beckett,\u00a0Worstward Ho<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>Failing is hard. It&#8217;s even harder when you&#8217;re failing but don&#8217;t know until the last moment.<\/p>\n<p>This can happen when testing for level 3. You&#8217;ve been underprepared in an area that doesn&#8217;t reveal itself until you&#8217;ve submitted your L3 checklist. You&#8217;re working on your pre-event interview, an in-depth process where many aspects of your judging ability are examined. Your interviewer sees you going towards a Major Deficiency, and has no choice but forward their conclusion to the panelists. As a result, during the whole panel, the panelists know you will not be promoted, but still maintain a straight face while interviewing you. In the end, you&#8217;re not promoted, and it dawns upon you that the panel&#8217;s conclusions must have been obvious already in the PEI. You&#8217;re angry. The weeks between the two feel like a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>Is the above fair? Hardly. Is it a common scenario? Not that common, but it has definitely happened a few times.<\/p>\n<p>The main takeaway is that a deficiency was detected early, but instead of giving the candidate a chance to learn, the process blindly goes on. Instead, those weeks between the initial assessment of the deficiency and the panel&#8217;s event could have been dedicated to learning and starting to fix the identified deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why we are slightly modifying the testing process:<\/p>\n<p>If, during the course of the Pre-Event Interview, the interviewer suspects a Major Deficiency, two members of the L3 Panel Lead group will be invited to examine the interview, so as to have as objective an assessment as possible. If a Major Deficiency is found or if 3 or more Minor Deficiencies are found, the candidate is informed and the panel is delayed. In that case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>full feedback based on the information collected so far is provided by the pre-event interviewer;<\/li>\n<li>interviewing can resume at a later point, at least 3 months and at most 12 months from the moment it&#8217;s interrupted;<\/li>\n<li>in order to resume interviewing, the candidate must receive two reviews from L3 judges testifying of progress in the identified deficiencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope this is going to improve experience and let candidates go back on track faster.<\/p>\n<p><em>(note: a previous version of this post mentioned a choice by the candidate to panel immediately or to delay &#8211; this was wrong and been corrected above. Apologies for any misunderstanding &#8211; Daniel)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>Daniel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. &#8211; Samuel Beckett,\u00a0Worstward Ho Hi all, Failing is hard. 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