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Old 02-06-2014, 08:32 PM
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My organization is younger, and recruitment has been outstanding the past two years since we've been founded. We currently have over 50 members, with the goal of receiving an extension from a NPC organization and colonizing with them.

Although I love every sister in my organization, I feel as though we need to switch gears from obtaining a large membership, and focus more on quality of members (as I keep coming by 'quality over quantity' in the recruitment forum). I feel as though this will help ensure my organization remains strong throughout the years.

Just some background information about my campus:
- There are 3 greek life organizations (2 sororities, both local; 1 fraternity, international), totaling a current membership of over 150.
- We are located in Canada (Lethbridge, Alberta).
- Greek life here does not ask for references.
- Our recruitment consists of tabling beginning the Monday of the second week of school (tabling occurs all week), with events happening that week and the week after, and Bid Day being on the Thursday or Friday of the second week of recruitment.
- Recruitment does not include alcohol
- We have Fall and Spring recruitment
- My school has 10,000 students
- We do not have rho gammas during recruitment

Any other comments or suggestions pertaining to quality over quantity are much appreciated!

Thank you for your time!

Here are my questions:

1 - What qualities about a person do you consider to make them 'quality', and how do these qualities benefit the organization? (Please be honest.)

2 - How do you determine if the PNM has these qualities? Do you determine this before or after Bid Day? (and if after, would you vote them out immediately or wait until initiation voting).

3 - Do you 'interview' each PNM? What sorts of questions do you ask? How do you conduct the interview (this seems a bit intimidating)?

4 - What do references consist of? (ie resume, letter from employer, awards received, high school transcript, etc...)

5 - If we were to accept references (which would be new for us), as a way for a PNM to increase the likelihood of receiving a bid, what should we write in our brochures to advertise this?

6 - We currently have a membership of about 50 members. What should we cap recruitment at? (for fall recruitment, spring recruitment, or the year)

7 - Some schools/organizations don't have a spring recruitment. What are your opinions about this? Is it better only having fall recruitment? (In the past we have had large spring recruitment's, but recently they have become small)

8 - When giving out bids, do you also hand out letters of regret? (ie stating that they didn't make the cut this time but that we see potential in them and if they work on.... let's say, doing more volunteering, that they would increase their chances of receiving a bid in the future.)

9 - How do you vote on this if we cap maximum recruitment? Currently we look at about 50 PNMs and vote on whether it is a yes or a no that they would make a good sister.

10 - Greek life is prominent on campus, but has only begun. How do you seek out quality people? Currently we just table.

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