Voices from Overseas Institutions
I typically use the Open Schedule, so that I can meet with more students. However, I would use the closed schedule more if I had the option to adjust the length of time for the meetings (ie. 10 minutes max).
Unfortunately, I did not have the capacity to accept meeting requests from all the students who asked for one, as the quantity was so high.
Thanks a lot to Harden and his team for the quick support and good service
I am very pleased to join this PHD workshop which was prepared professionally. It gives you a long enough promotion period to drive interest from the market and attract right the audience. The online digital meeting platform has been well developed for institutions to collect useful data before the interviews, so the institute can select students prior to the workshop. Will attend again!
We received a lot of interview requests (+250) from students who sometimes were not interested in coming to Belgium.
For only 18 interview slots, it required a lot of time to go through the files and select the best candidates.
The timeslot available was too short as there were more enquiries that we can take. As such, we can only answer to of the enquiries via email.
Wish to have records of recruited CSC-phd students
Calling the sessions interview sessions is a bit misleading as we do not actually interview the student. It is more of an information session where students can ask any question they might have. Calling them interview sessions suggests that we are going to ask them questions and interview them which didn't happen.
Also there needs to be more space for more delegates to be inputted into the system as we had 4 different delegates across the 2 days.
Also the delegates were receiving email notifications to book people onto appointments. Due to the volume of booking requests, being notified via email is not ideal as it does clog up inboxes. We were logging in and assigning candidates to the agenda throughout the build up to the interviews
A more detailed manual for the iSchedule System would be helpful.
1. There were a few applicants who failed to attend the interview and a couple of last-minute cancellations. It would be helpful if the organiser is able to minimize such occurrences by imposing some restrictions or assist with sending reminders to those who signed up for the interview slots going forward.
2. Allow us to search for candidates more easily based on their area of study
When accepting students for open agenda it would be good to assign a general timeslot (for example, 15.00 to 15.30) so that we can manage the number of visitors throughout the event.
Sometimes the candidates attend to the meeting at the same time even if it is not the planned time.