Recruitment Advice for a New Recruitment Chair?

[AXOrushadvisor]

Wow!, what an opportunity you have and what a challenge. I will try to give you a couple of suggestions.

IMHO, the ratio of 1:5 women to PNM is going to be your biggest challenge. This would be difficult even for a skilled recruiter to pull off. The first thing I would start to do right now is conversation work shops. You might want to have some conversation topics for each day of recruitment. If your President and Recruitment Chair (yourself) wont be tied up with PNM's- and I don't think you should be, you'll have to really be working the room. You might want to split up the Chapter so that your President takes half and you take the other half. Make it a point to go up to every group. It sounds like you might be in a rebuilding phase. If that is the case I would definitely talk about the opportunities PNM's will have to be involved, hold office ect. You will really need to "sell" the Chapter to the PNM's. All this can be done in a conversation workshop and you will probably need to do several. Then you need to practice. If you can arrange to work with another Chapter on campus that would be ideal. Work on picking up 5 people at the door and conversation. If you can get feed back from the group that would be ideal. Figure out what works and what doesn't.

Do the PNM's give you there cards with their group numbers, names and ID number? That is the easiest way to remember who you have talked to. If your first round is short you may not want to do any bumping. I don't think it is to unusual for a PNM to only meet one sister for first round only. Second and third round your groups may be a little smaller so it might get a little easier. Again, this is something you will need to practice to get right.

As far as getting your name out I would put ads in the University newspaper. They can be congratulatory things (graduation of members, other sororities and fraternities winning things ect) Wear your letters all day and every day.

I hope some of this helps you out.