Supervisor – What does it mean to your case?

Recently, I received a list of questions regarding being a supervisor. Here is that list with comments on what these questions mean to your case.

1. What is your job?
   – Often Social Security will list what you put on your Work History form.
2. Were you a supervisor or lead worker? If lead worker, how much time was spent doing supervisory tasks?
   – This question is to determine if you could be a full time supervisor or if you worked beside your coworkers and give instructions.
3. Did you hire, fire, coach and counsel?
   – If you didn’t have the final say in hiring and firing, or if you have an HR department your answer should be NO.
4. Did you review job applications?
   – Was this a particular skill or did you do it as a group and just looked at the potential candidates resume or application. It will make a difference in your case to detail this information out.
5. Did you interview job applicants?
   – Were you a part of a team or did you do this alone? Did you create the list of questions or have a script? Did you give your opinion or was yours the only opinion as to whether you would hire or not?
6. Did you make hiring or firing decisions?
7. Did you make this alone or was HR the final say on hiring and firing?
   – State what you did or didn’t do
8. Did you complete employee evaluations?
9. Did you recommend wage increases or promotions
10. Were you responsible for making  sure work was done correctly?
11. Did you allocate resources, develop plans, have to travel?
12. Did you plan the work and assign duties?
13. Did you prepare work schedules?
14. Did you do payroll?
15. Did you approve timesheets?
16. Who did you supervise/manage?
    – i.e. store associates, assembly line workers, office staff, etc
17. What type of duties did the employees you oversaw perform?
18. Were you responsible for also performing the same work of the people you supervised?
19. How many staff did you supervise?
20. What was the end product/responsibilities of the workers you managed?
21. Did you control costs?
22. Did you handle customer complaints?

Each of these questions will help determine if you can work one of your past jobs or any aspect of a job from the last 15 years, or if you could do any other job in the national economy. This is a time to be humble and not try to make yourself look like you did more. This is a case where less may be better.

Please feel free to contact the team at Mission Possible Employment Services, Inc for assistance with your Social Security Disability case. We are happy to help you with all your paperwork that will get your case approved.

~ Patty Sexton, Disability Representative