Vocational Experts
Present defensible job numbers based on Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hypotheticals.
The most recent and accurate data source for such job numbers is the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS). Manual calculations, complicated spreadsheets, and undocumented methodology create unnecessary risk during testimony.
Common challenges include:
- Manual ORS calculations
- Recalculating percentages across multiple RFC factors
- Explaining methodology under cross-examination
- Rebuilding calculations for multiple hypotheticals