I am reading it now..you know that I respect this person..but I am worried
The thing to remember is that this is not about EVERY application. It’s about the majority.
For every good application received that takes 10 minutes to read, you’ll probably get 10-15 that you can decide on very quickly.
We sometimes forget in this forum (because everyone is so focused/bought in to getting a TC) that not everyone is like our community, and in reality our community is a minority in the applicant pool. There will be thousands of people submitting applications with little to no interest in law, but going for it because someone told them it was a good career to go into or because the money is good. There will be people applying who do it half heartedly just because they are caught up in all the noise of their fellow students applying, and they are told it is something they should do, rather than analyse whether it is something they want to do. It is the applications from those people that can be decided fairly quickly.
Back in my time, I could easily get rid of about 5% of applicants just because they had copied and pasted their answers and hadn’t changed the firm’s name!!
You ultimately bin applications quickly so you have time and energy to focus on the good applications.