Re: Reaping non-advocated applicants
Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:47:21AM -0500, Gopal Narayanan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:52:32PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds like a good idea to me. But what to do with them? I think that
> > > applicants that have not found an advocate after, say, 4 weeks should
> > > be removed.
> >
> > I think that is a bit harsh. My suggestion is to leave them in the
> > queue, and not process them (i.e. hand them over to an AM) until they
> > find an advocate. A weekly/monthly auto-remider might be sent to the
> > applicant reminding them of this situation. Sometimes, it might take
> > an applicant more than 4 weeks to get advocated, and by booting them
> > out, we might potentially turn off a good applicant.
>
> is it really that hard for a "good applicant" to get
> advocated within a 4 week period?
In my understanding someone who applies as NM should know who would
advocate him (his sponsor/mentor etc.). Hence 4 weeks still seem
reasonable to me.
-Ralf.
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