consultants for your headquarters....

[josh8o]

ok so life for me has been busy as hell....

my flight yesterday was delayed and i got back to sd 35 minutes before my last final. talk about stress.

anyway, i had such a great time at my 2nd interview. it went really well, and i hope i got the position. it was a good experience for me too because i had never been to my fraternity headquarters, and it was a nice treat seeing that i graduate on saturday.
axwhoah: yeah i met him, he is chill. there were 4 of us interviewing, so we all bonded. he missed his flight on the way back too...kinda funny

[suntzu1963]

Thank you to everyone that contributed to the clarification of what exactly the position of "consultant" entails.

[TxAPhi]

I was an ELC for Alpha Phi. We used to call them Field Consultants.


Phi Fact from www.alphaphi.org -
1894 - Alpha Phi became the first women's fraternity to use "traveling delegates," now known as Educational Leadership Consultants.

I had a great time - visited chapters in Missouri, Virginia, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, North Carolina, and Kansas.

[TxAPhi]

Originally posted by josh8o
anyway, i had such a great time at my 2nd interview. it went really well, and i hope i got the position. it was a good experience for me too because i had never been to my fraternity headquarters, and it was a nice treat seeing that i graduate on saturday.

I may have missed it if it was posted somewhere else. How did it all work out Josh?

[TxAPhi]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Would it have been a job I would have loved, damn skippy when I was younger!

It is an experience of a life time. If you show something like that on a resume, any Greek Member will realize, that you are a special person with training and back ground!

All I can say is The Very Best Of Luck if you can get a position like this. It is not easy at all and be very stressfull! Oh, but Rewarding!

I can testify to this. Interviewing for my first job after getting "off the road" with the GM of the division who said, "so you were a 'field frog', i always wanted to do that' -- the rest of the interview went great after that and I was hired the next day. Being a consultant gave me so many real examples to tell of what I had accomplished.

While at that job, I applied for a new position in a different job function. The VP of that area had started a chapter of her sorority at Princeton I believe and had great things to say abot her experience with their consultants. She said she brought me in because the greek experience on my resume impressed her so much. I didn't get that job because it was a more senior level position, but I was invited to interview in that area again and got the inside scoop on positions because of that connection.

I hear stories of some employers being biased against greeks, but I have yet to experience it.

[SDTSarah]

Ooohh....I want to be a TC so badly! One of the girls from our chapter was one, and now she's in Jacksonville helping with our recolonized FSU chapter. I still have another 1 1/2 years to go, though...

[hannahgirl]

One of my good friends and biological sister of one of my chapter sisters will be a Traveling Consultant for Alpha Gamma Delta next year!!! I'm so excited for her!

[TxAPhi]

when you know who your new consultants are post them here if you have a link; if you are going to be traveling, let us know

[BetteDavisEyes]

I wanted to be one but I had way too many other things going on. I heard it's pretty competetive though. You have to be someone amazing to do that kind of job b/c it involves a lot of traveling.

[KSUViolet06]

lI'm applying to be an LC next fall once I graduate. I have a real love and enthusiasm for Sigma and I consider myself to be a very knowledgeable sister (at least for someone who has only been active for a little over a year). I also love traveling and seeing new places. also, since I'm going to be graduating and becoming an alumna, I really want to stay involved.

There's an extensive interview process involved, but I think I'm up to the challenge. I'll update more obviously as it gets closer to that time.

[hoosier]

Very interesting thread, and I'm amazed that so many posters have been traveling employees in the past - it's surely an amazing year or two.

Once, a Phi Sigma Kappa traveling secretary got ambitious, started organizing chapters he was visiting, and got elected Natl. Pres at the next convention. I don't know for sure, but I think the veteran national officers all told him to go to hell, that they would never work with him, and he resigned after about six months.

The Tekes have a special club of past travelers, office staffers, and editors which meets at every Convention for a fun-filled lunch (and initiation of the newbys), and members get to wear a very neat sash.

The Fijis recently hired a chapter officer and IFC pres from Santa Barbara, whose chapter was in the midst of a huge hazing case and lawsuit, and often the best chapter visitors come from small schools and struggling chapters - they aren't as likely to look down on the strugglers like someone from a huge chapter or an huge campus.

The ATOs once had a great guy who visited chapters for them, and was a frequent speaker at interfraternal groups - and he was blind. Told some great stories about having to be the designated driver after some ATO parties.

TKE has "Buckwheat" - a former traveler now making a career as a rush consultant. For $1000 or so, he goes to a chapter, helps them pledge a bunch. He's now old enough to be the father of a college freshman, and still almost passes as a student.

Would like to hear more of your stories.

[33girl]

Originally posted by hoosier
Once, a Phi Sigma Kappa traveling secretary got ambitious, started organizing chapters he was visiting, and got elected Natl. Pres at the next convention. I don't know for sure, but I think the veteran national officers all told him to go to hell, that they would never work with him, and he resigned after about six months.

LOL. How long ago was this?

[ISUKappa]

That's great, Jocelyn! Good luck.

My advice for anyone who is even remotely thinking they would like to serve as a TC/LC/TLC/FC/ELC/whathaveyou is to sit down and really think out this decision. You will most likely be constantly traveling, every week, for nearly 8 months. That's a lot of time spent on planes living out of a suitcase. That's a lot of different chapters and personalities you will be experiencing, and it will be very taxing. You will see things you never thought you would see and hear things (good and bad) you never thought you would hear. You will learn things about the innerworkings of your fraternity, and it will probably not be very glamorous. Some people can handle those things, and that's fabulous.

I was extremely disappointed that after the interviews, I wasn't selected to be a TC. Now that I've been out of college a few years and have a better understanding of myself, I've realized I was not a good fit for the TC position. Yes, I had the leadership experience and communication skills, but I would have absolutely hated constantly living out of a suitcase and that could have affected how well I did my job and my level of fraternity involvement post-traveling.

[Tom Earp]

I lived out of The Proveriable Suit Case for 5 Years.

But while not with My National, I did try to visit some Chapters. What a Grand Time it was! Ment Good, Not So Good, and Really Not Good. But, was just an Alum stopping by!

If only if I had Not been married, I could have done it!

It is an experience of a Life Time to be sure. Do You get burned Out,
Yes.

But, if someone reads Your Resume, they should have the Balls to say WOW! Oh that is a Guy Thing!

Tuff and Fun, But, The knowledge is worth every minute of Your training and what You learned working with People All over!

How do deal with people is one of the Big Door Openers!

[hoosier]

Originally posted by 33girl
LOL. How long ago was this?

'70s