Guides - How to Recruit

Who are your members/potential members?

• Current active members
• Current non-active members
• Alumni members
• People in your classes
• People who have shown interest in your club
• Incoming freshmen/transfer students
• People in your Living Group and other Living Groups
• People in other clubs
• Friends, family, co-worker

How to recruit:

• Write letters to living groups soliciting names.
• Visit living group meetings to promote your club and your club’s events.
• Put advertisements in your school newspaper.
• Send congratulations letters to those who were “nominated” as a potential member.
• Send calendars of upcoming activities and meeting schedules to anyone who returned an “interest form.”
• All group’s correspondence and promotion should contain an invitation to join.
• Send letters to faculty soliciting names.
• Hold public events and start each event with an invitation to join.
• In a high visibility location place a bulletin board with invitation to join group.
• Recruit friends/word-of-mouth.
• Hold public presentation showcasing club activities.
• Attend university recruitment events:
• Vandal Friday, Vandal Transfer Day
• Table at Get Involved Fair/Palousafest.

Recruitment NEVER ends!

• Treat your recruitment and retention efforts as a year long process with many planned programs and activities.
• Have a coordinator, theme, slogan, promotional items.
• Add to every meeting time to update potential member list and recognize member’s contributions.
• Happy members recruit new members!
• Give them something to DO!
• Immediately assign new members to a committee, or give them a job to do
• Create positions with specific job responsibilities
• Create committees or teams to assist with specific assignments.