Recruitment Advice for a New Recruitment Chair?

[AOII Angel]

I agree with AXOrushadvisor. The key is to get comfortable talking to five girls and getting a conversation flowing in that setting. As the week goes on that ratio will get better and allow you to have more natural conversations. You need to figure out how to involve multiple PNMs in a conversation without leaving anyone out.

Secondly, be prepared for heartache. It will happen. There will be women who will cut you JUST BECAUSE you have fewer members than the other chapters. Don't let this get you down. Have confidence in your chapter, in your sisters and in what you have to offer.

I will caution you in the "sell" the chapter arena. Be careful that you don't come off as pushy or desperate. It can be a fine line. Normal conversations are okay during recruitment, but every conversation can be turned at some point to how AEPhi has impacted you in some area. Try to make the sell natural and not forced.

Good luck!

[AnchorAlumna]

Scream, holler and yell to get some help. There ought to be some kind of regional or district or even national/international recruitment expert in your sorority that can give you extra help. Plead and yell until you get it!
Until then, make sure you have up-to-date copies of all your sorority's recruitment handbooks, and read them thoroughly. You (or another officer) probably ought to also have a copy of the NPC Greek Book. You need to study it to understand all the various rules and agreements about how recruitment works.
Good luck to you!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Scream, holler and yell to get some help. There ought to be some kind of regional or district or even national/international recruitment expert in your sorority that can give you extra help. Plead and yell until you get it!

Word, word, and double triple mcword. They're the ones who kept you out for this long, they need to hold your hands AND THEN SOME, not just throw you into the shark tank. (LOL at me typing too fast and it coming out "shart tank")

Call daily, HOURLY if necessary, to get someone to come there (not just over the phone or email) and show you what to do.

One piece of advice that has been given on here is DON'T try to talk to rushees one to one in the first rounds. Keep it in groups to make the difference in size a little less glaring. Also don't bring a chapter from another campus to help in rush, unless they are strictly going to be behind the scenes, helping decorate, hand out refreshments or at the very most briefly welcome the girls; rushees have said over and over again on GC that they sometimes went to chapters in this situation, and ended up talking to a girl not even from their campus for the whole time. They usually cut the group because of it.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Also don't bring a chapter from another campus to help in rush, unless they are strictly going to be behind the scenes, helping decorate, hand out refreshments or at the very most briefly welcome the girls; rushees have said over and over again on GC that they sometimes went to chapters in this situation, and ended up talking to a girl not even from their campus for the whole time. They usually cut the group because of it.

I'm gonna go ahead and qualify this, a bit. If your chapter is looking at a 1:5 ratio, realistically, there are women who aren't going to give your group a chance. If you can identify them and hand them off to women from another chapter, it leaves your chapter members free to get to know the girls who are interested. Alternatively, you can just be sure you are bumping well enough that PNM's meet more women from your chapter than not.