<\/p><\/div> Nate Hurley is an L3 judge living in Houston, Texas in USA-South.\u00a0 Nate is the Verification Committee Lead, and tries to make sure that L3 candidates get good and actionable feedback in a timely manner following any submissions to the VC.\u00a0 Outside of Magic, Nate enjoys spending time with his wife, Ayrea, and with their two cats, Jaya and Kiora.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today, we announced a new method<\/a> for submitting Self-Reviews and Checklists to the Verification Committee (VC). \u00a0If you haven’t seen this, you should check it out!<\/p>\n Along with a new method for submitting materials to the VC, I’d also like to talk a little about why self-reviews are a part of the Level 3 Advancement Process, and what we expect in a self-review.<\/p>\n Submitting a self-review is the first official step on the Level 3 Advancement Process. \u00a0It is read by a number of members of the VC, who then vote on whether to accept it or not. \u00a0Let’s look at what the L3 Advancement Page says about a self-review:<\/p>\n Must have written a general (i.e. non-event-specific) self-review in the last 12 months, covering all of the Qualities of Level 3 judges listed above, graded as Strengths or as Areas for Improvement. If that self-review is more than 6 months old, your application must include a brief update indicating progress on the Qualities of Level 3 judges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let\u2019s break that down a little, and I\u2019ll add some points to it.<\/p>\n There are two points where the VC will check your self-review. \u00a0The first time is before you request L3 Recommendations. The second time is when you submit your formal L3 Application, commonly known as the L3 Checklist. \u00a0As mentioned above, the L3 Checklist needs a self-review written in the past 12 months, and with a brief update if it\u2019s over 6 months old.<\/p>\n I hope that this takes some of the mystery away from a piece of the L3 Advancement Process, and I hope that this inspires you to write your own self-review. \u00a0If you have any questions, feel free to reach me at l3.testing.manager@gmail.com<\/a>. \u00a0Otherwise, I look forward to seeing your new self-review<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello and welcome back to the Road to L3 blog posts! Nate is our guest author for this article and he introduces us into one of a couple changes to the L3 Checklist coming in the next little while. Nate Hurley is an L3 judge living in Houston, Texas in USA-South.\u00a0 Nate is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"language":[10],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","language-en_us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/road-to-l3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p> Self-reviews are a great way to benchmark your growth as judge. \u00a0They’re a bit like marking your height against a doorframe; a year or two later, you can look back and see how much you’ve grown. \u00a0However, in the scope of the Level 3 Advancement Process, self-reviews are used to show that you understand your own abilities and that you have a plan for improving them. \u00a0While it is not the only way to show your ability in Self-Evaluation<\/a>, your self-review is one of the primary ways in which you’ll be graded on that quality.<\/p>\n
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<\/p> Must have written a general, non-event-specific self-review in the last 12 months\n
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<\/p> A few other points that should be said:<\/p>\n
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<\/p> Now, all of this sounds like a lot. \u00a0However, a lot of candidates spend a long time \u201cwriting\u201d their self-review without ever finishing it. \u00a0This self-review should *not* be a novel. Starting now, the recommended length for self-reviews is 400 words per section, or 3,600 words overall. \u00a0Self-reviews should be capped at 500 words per section, or 4,500 words overall. We hope that instituting this cap will make writing the self-review easier for candidates, and will make it easier for mentors and members of the VC to give good, efficient feedback to the candidate.<\/p>\n