A month-long period of reviewing the application is prohibitive and disappointing.
I agree this is too long, and I’m sad that it was actually longer than this at times. Right now I’m mostly managing to review them within a week, and almost always within 2 weeks. I wouldn’t want to promise to always be able to do this, but it’s much easier now we have a team of people working on advising.
I have an impression that 80k accepted a long time ago that that wait time will just have to be pretty long.
I’m actually really keen to avoid us having long wait times. Career decisions are often pretty time sensitive due to application and decision deadlines. Thinking about your overall career also seems pretty aversive to me, so I think it’s important to capitalise on people’s enthusiasm and energy for doing those occur. Right now we’re aiming to have slots available in the next couple of weeks after we’ve accepted an application, though it might take a few weeks before there are slots that work for a person, particularly if they’re in a very different time zone than us.
O: I have an impression that 80k accepted a long time ago that that wait time will just have to be pretty long.
M: I’m actually really keen to avoid us having long wait times. Career decisions are often pretty time sensitive due to application and decision deadlines.
Agreed on this prioritization, also I think both in principle (and as you noted) in practice, long wait times are highly avoidable. In principle you don’t need that much resources to turn a particularly long wait time to one that is pleasantly short, certain exigencies (eg correlated staff vacation times) aside. The mathematics of queueing theory also might be helpful here.
I agree this is too long, and I’m sad that it was actually longer than this at times. Right now I’m mostly managing to review them within a week, and almost always within 2 weeks. I wouldn’t want to promise to always be able to do this, but it’s much easier now we have a team of people working on advising.
I’m actually really keen to avoid us having long wait times. Career decisions are often pretty time sensitive due to application and decision deadlines. Thinking about your overall career also seems pretty aversive to me, so I think it’s important to capitalise on people’s enthusiasm and energy for doing those occur. Right now we’re aiming to have slots available in the next couple of weeks after we’ve accepted an application, though it might take a few weeks before there are slots that work for a person, particularly if they’re in a very different time zone than us.
Agreed on this prioritization, also I think both in principle (and as you noted) in practice, long wait times are highly avoidable. In principle you don’t need that much resources to turn a particularly long wait time to one that is pleasantly short, certain exigencies (eg correlated staff vacation times) aside. The mathematics of queueing theory also might be helpful here.