Recruitment is a Relationship Business

       My last and final session at NGLA was definitely one to remember. @TinaRaeVan gave her presentation on Dynamic Recruitment and gave super helpful tips that all of our organizations at BSU can use! I refer to her as @TinaRaeVan because that is her Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter and she wants everyone to follow us, she also gave us her personal phone number and had us text her.

    She talked about how recruitment is all about human interaction; she said that people join people. The three most important things about recruitment are first impression, what we talk about, and how we talk about it. We first talked about the five most important things about first impressions. In order to make a good first impression you need to have a good handshake, eye contact, smile, body language, and attitude. After learning first impression we discussed that during recruitment it is important to talk about what they want to talk about.

   We then got into the Five F-Words to use in recruitment. The Five F-Words are family, fun, favorites, future, and from. If you use these topics to start conversations than the conversation will seem less structured and more meaningful than regular recruitment conversations. Another important aspect to asking questions at recruitment is just simply 'asking good questions'. Tina believes that open-ended questions are the best type of questions you can ask. If you start off with an open ended question, there will be good connection points and it will help bring the conversation more to life. Below I attached some open-ended phrases that can be good conversation starters.

I LOVE TINA and RECRUITMENT TIPS!!