I am going to agree here as well. I think that applicants should be run through the ringer sort of like the squires for Fortress without actually being inducted or given village access.
The applicant who runs around scouting the enemy, killing mages and assisting in raids and counter raids should get the nod over the guy who knows who ambushed who 10 years ago.

I recently decided to try a rager applicant. I scouted, led ragers to mages, assisted in raids and counter raids and led ragers to the kills that I landed. I was then given an interview that lasted nearly an hour, and the entire hour was on the history of the cabal. There wasn't a single mention of tactics, accomplishments or anything that I thought was important for an applicant.

Is the history important? I have yet to hear a single rager ever talk about the history in detail after being inducted. The only time they talk about it is in the interview where you have to scan through 12 pages of copy/paste text to find the minute detail that the person who is interviewing you picked out.

I decided to delete because the funstick wasn't there for me. The funny thing about it is that I had twice as many mage kills in 1/10th of the hours of the person who interviewed me.