Recruitment Greek Speak

[ASUADPi]

Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor

Be prepared. Recruitment takes an entire year to prepare. If they are not holding monthly workshops for to get their new members prepared they need to get those on the calender now. Conversation, conversation, conversation. It is all about making the PNM feel warm, invited, welcomed *chosen*. We have a list of topics that the girls can cover every day. Then practice those conversations- pair some of your active members with new members who don't know each other well. If you can pair up with another group that works too.

Was this the type of stuff you were looking for? Is this for your Chapter specific or all the Chapters? If it is for all the Chapters I would do more of a Panhellenic slant to it.

Thank you! That is a great suggestion that I didn't think of. You rock!

[Barbie's_Rush]

Relax.

Be gracious to every PNM. Even if it's obvious she would never fit in with your chapter or even if she's being rude and making it obvious that she's much too good for your chapter.

Smile until your cheeks hurt.

Look PNMs right in the eye when you talk to them.

Be sincere and interested.

Practice your conversation skills. Keep a couple of sure fire questions tucked away in the back of your mind for those times when your brain freezes or the PNM is difficult to talk with.

Really listen to what the PNM is telling you.

[honeychile]

FWIW, the skills you learn to become an ace recruiter are skills that will help you more than you'll ever realize for the rest of your life. I was once at a convention for something totally non-greeek related, and a man said that we all needed to treat the newbies just as we wouild treat a rushee. Afterwards, about six of us spoke to him, and each of us were greeks who had been good at rush/recruitment.

The more sorority women who realize that Recruitment is a Life Skill instead of a once a year stressor, the better they will become at getting what they'd like out of life.