Calm in the Face of Adversity - A Recruitment Advisor's Spring 2010 Story....

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We are full speed ahead on planning and preparing for this upcoming Spring 2010. We now have the format and schedule for Formal Recruitment. Keep in mind that my school follows a deferred recruitment schedule with the Formal Recruitment in the Spring.

About the Recruitment:

* No Frills, No songs, No Dance, No Skits, No Chanting, No Decor
* Women will come and go to houses as they please up until preference day. They can stay at a house for 5 minutes or for 2 hours. They must visit each of the houses at least once to attend preference.
* Release Figures Methodology will not be used this year. There will be hand matching taking place
* 180 PNMs have signed up as interested in Recruitment so far. Official sign ups will begin next week. This is a huge difference from the 60 that signed up to participate in recruitment last year.

The Schedule:

Day 1 : Open House, All organizations will be given a booth for all PNMs to initially learn about each organization

Day 2 : Sisterhood Day, This to me is a strange/awkward day. Since we have no frills it consists of talking to women, scrapbooks and powerpoint videos with pictures.

Day 3: Philanthropy, Pretty self explanatory and allows for an activity related to your cause. All PNMs must have visited all houses before the end of this day to be eligible to attend preference

Day 4: Preference

Day 5: Bid Matching followed by Bid Day


I'm feeling very nervous about this format for recruitment. Also, with PNMs just being able to float back and forth between houses seems that it could look disorganized. Also, without using Release Figures Management, the better recruiting groups will not be forced to drop larger numbers of women and will carry women to the end of recruitment. This to me seems like a set up for PNM Heartbreak. However, all PNMs will be encouraged to rank all of the houses for which they attend preference.

Preparing starts now with possibly a last minute PR in the freshman resident hall and a workshop before everyone returns in January for the work week. I'm going to be on pins and needles now until Bid Day!! When we followed RFM in 2005 we began reaching quota although the numbers for Formal Recruitment were declining making quota a small number and leaving a lot of work left for COR.

More to follow!