Recruitment - Step 1 (identifying why people join organizations.)
Let's start off my asking yourself one question. Why did you join Student Activities Board, Campus Activities Board, Student Programming Board, etc..? Answering this question should help you partly identify why students may want to join an organization. There were a couple of reasons why I joined the Campus Activities Board at Illinois Central College. I joined Campus Activities Board to simply make new friends and have fun. I was fairly new on campus and wanted to see what all ICC had to offer. There are hundreds of reasons why people join an organization. But knowing just a few of them are essential to have a successful recruitment plan.
People join organizations for reasons such as:
- they want to simply get involved on campus,
- make new friends,
- expore their interests,
- develop skills,
- and have fun!
Once you have identified a few ideas of why students may want to join an organization you are ready to start on a recruitment plan. Over the next few blogs I am going to be talking about the following: How far would you like your organization to go?, Who do you want to recruit?, getting everyone involved, using flyers, posters, etc.., new members meetings, interviewing new members, and having new members setting goals for themselves.
Please chek back over the next few weeks and learn how to successfully recruit new members.
"b" carpenter
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