My way of judging

On how to judge at my unexplored junior 2020

• This article is not so much about the unexplored juniors themselves, but about the technicalities of “how they are dealing with over 100 applications”.
• I don’t think it’s helpful for people on the application side, it’s for people who do similar judging.

document review

• All application documents are in PDF format.
  • Unexplored Junior is a PDF application in the first place.
  • There are a few cases of wrong formatting, so we’ll align them at this point.
• Put your application documents in one folder in Dropbox.
  • Open on iPad and put the whole folder in offline mode.
    • It will now be saved locally on the iPad and not have to wait for a download over the network when opening.
    • Last year I read on the commuter train, so that was another reason to make the network unnecessary.
  • This year I was home for COVID 19, so I was configured to also use a PC as described above.
  • Keep a star on the folder.
    • When you want to see the proposal documents, three taps of “Dropbox Open→Starred→Select Folder” will bring you to the list of proposal documents screen.
  • The proposal documents are sorted by submission ID by name (that’s how the file names are supposed to be, I didn’t make them), so go from the top to the bottom.
    • With Dropbox, it’s two taps to get a full screen view of the PDF.
  • (2021) I work from home and have Wi-Fi all the time, and I was wondering if I could do it directly from GoogleDrive without putting it in Dropbox, but when I open a document and go back to the list, the list reloads and I have to scroll again to open the PDF at the bottom, which is a pain!
    • With a PC, it looked like I could take it offline, but I didn’t know how to do it with an iPad, so I decided to do it again with Dropbox.
• Open the PRIVATE Scrapbox with Porter on your phone and jot down anything you think of on one page.
• PC
  • Used to view things that would otherwise be difficult to see on a PC.
  • First, open a spreadsheet with all the details of each application.
  • Duplicate the sheet for your own use and keep a percentage indication of the progress of the document review.
    • If you have N applications, write k/N in each kth cell so you can see the progress at a glance
• It’s bad enough if you’re pressed for time on the screening deadline and read the later documents in a cursory manner, so read through all of them once first.
  • Then read more about what piqued my interest.
  • You can see in Scrapbox what the application ID number of the one that piqued your interest was.
  • This process selects people to interview by a factor of about 30 (i.e., 3-4).
    • But this year, Seki interviewed more than 10 people, and I think it would have been better for me to do so.
    • In that case, it would be like 10 times the number of application screening, 10 times the number of interviews, and so on.

interview

• View Zoom screen and proposal side by side on a PC
  • I have a gallery view so that everyone’s face is equally visible.
• Interview notes are handwritten in Notability on the iPad.
  • I see, so this story leads here!” or “Is there a gap between these two stories?” It is inconvenient to use a keyboard to record such things in real time.
  • The advantage is that the sound of typing does not enter the videoconference.
• The iPhone is used for doing a little research, for example.
• The person who interviewed me will create a page on Scrapbox and add to it when I email feedback afterwards, because it’s hard to check the process if it’s still in the mailbox.

---

This page is auto-translated from /nishio/僕の審査の仕方 using DeepL. If you looks something interesting but the auto-translated English is not good enough to understand it, feel free to let me know at @nishio_en. I’m very happy to spread my thought to non-Japanese readers.