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I don't know what FRSO's onboarding is like, but
's is pretty thorough. It'll take a month at least before you get formally brought into the party. That would be as a candidate member, which is a period of training and education that lasts about a year until you're a full member. The recruitment situation in various branches is different based on their particular needs, so it may be they accelerate you through or you go through a bit of a waiting period because they have tons of people to onboard and need to vet everyone appropriately.
I'd recommend joining the PSL Action Network in the meantime, which a peripheral structure to the party where you support the work, get materials, and are brought in on volunteer opportunites.
Yep, y'all do great work! 🫡
FRSO also has 2 tiers of membership, they divide it as "general" and "cadre," roughly equivalent to action network and full party member. They are very small though, to my understanding.
I wish PSL would contact me a bit more tbh. I signed up for membership a few months ago and the only correspondence I’ve received was a text message asking for my address to send me materials which haven’t come in yet. Maybe I’ll reach back out to them since, up until this thread, I assumed it was normal to move a bit slow.
Definitely reach back out. I think everyone in the party acknowledges this issue in our recruiting - we get more people applying than we can handle, and it inevitably leads to people slipping through the cracks. We've expanded a lot of our recruitment systems and things have gotten much better, but it's still got a ways to go.
It helps for the recruit to be proactive. The best thing you can do is show up to an event and talk to people in person.