{"id":26083,"date":"2014-09-28T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=26083"},"modified":"2014-09-28T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T13:55:31","slug":"is-your-aegee-local-the-master-of-recruitment-share-your-best-practices-with-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/09\/28\/is-your-aegee-local-the-master-of-recruitment-share-your-best-practices-with-the-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your AEGEE local the \u201cMaster of Recruitment\u201d? Share your best practices with the Network!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s September, the new academic year has just started, and this means that the recruitment season has just started too! Several AEGEE locals are making big efforts and organising lots of activities for fresh members and international students who can become potential AEGEE members, many of them starting from mid August already.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Organising such activities requires a big dose of creativity and innovation, as well as PR campaigns on social media, taking care of logistics, and much more. For all those locals that are working hard on recruiting new members, we have a special prize. AEGEE-Europe is now looking for our Master of Recruitment<\/strong> throughout the Network!<\/p>\n

Holger Schmitt, Network Director of AEGEE-Europe, is launching this new competition in cooperation with the Network Commission and The AEGEEan. Following the example of The AEGEEan\u2019s Local and Member of the Month awards, he came up with the idea of this recruitment competition. \u201cMany locals have developed a very structured and exhaustive strategy how to recruit members. Now it is the time to highlight your concept, your activities and share it with all AEGEEans\u201d, he stresses. Therefore, The AEGEEan is now looking for successful and innovative recruitment strategies that AEGEE locals have been using from August until October.<\/p>\n

According to our Network Director, the recruitment strategies will be used as best-practices in order to develop a toolkit for recruitment strategies which will provide alternative ways of recruitment, which will be divided into categories, depending on the human resources available and the size of the local. Based on his experience as a board member and Network Commissioner, Holger highlights the three steps needed for recruitment:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1- Motivation:<\/strong> Get them interested by telling how awesome AEGEE is and explaining all the opportunities AEGEE has to offer<\/p>\n

2- Communication:<\/strong> Give them a flyer, card, invite new members to the next meeting, activity and make sure they are on the mailing-list, Facebook group and they like your Facebook page.<\/p>\n

3- Integration:<\/strong>\u00a0Keep constant contact and give them a small task to fulfill in order to ensure that they will stay and want to contribute<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would suggest to locals to send their most unique and fun activity description with pictures and combine it with explaining what kind of communication, initiatives and integration steps are used in order to recruit new members\u201d, he explains. Therefore, we would like to know which are your tips and the activities that your AEGEE local<\/strong> carries to recruit new members? Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n

Are you interested? Here’s how you can take part, then!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A first open call was sent to our mailing list ANNOUNCE-L, and in order to apply, you should se send a description of your recruitment strategy with nice picture or videos to aegeean@aegee.org<\/a> containing the following information:<\/p>\n