List your ideas for Recuitment Events

[jlwinkl]

At my school we have formal and informal recruitment and the events during this are suppose to be sober. It's always hard to have sober events that you can convince freshman to join. So list your ideas for events!!

-Bags and Brats
-Flag Football
-Poker and Pizza
-Once we had a projector outside and watched football
-Info Night
-Pool (obviously more for fall rush)
-Cigars Night
-Bowling and pizza

These are events that I have tried and I feel that the bowling and pizza was the best just because you could easily get one on one time will casually bowling. I had the least success when the entire night was only based around food. Lets be honest most the people rushing are freshman with all-you-can-eat meal plans.

Let me know What else you've tried!

[ScarletBlueGold]

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=115022

Check out this link. I feel like it has some pretty good ideas.

Keep in mind that a good recruitment event has a clear and identifiable "purpose" and a clear and identifiable "audience".

Looking at a few of your events:

- Poker and Pizza
- Pool

(My personal favorite)
- Once we had a projector outside and watched football

While I can tell you that I personally love poker (and pizza!), I have never had an intimate conversation with someone during a game. Remember your NIC 5 steps:

Meet them
Make them your friend
Introduce them to your friends
Introduce them to your Fraternity
Ask them to join

Now the second and third steps (the bolded steps) are what your events are for. Pool has a very strict limit to the number of people you get to meet, and poker isn't much better. Watching football is a good one-on-one activity, but it's going to be hard holding a good conversation while the game is going.

Also, consider your audience. What kind of guys do you want to join your Chapter. Who do you need? Who do you want? My Chapter was looking to get guys more interested in service and philanthropy. We held an event called "service and steak" where we worked together renovating an after-school center for low-income families. Not only was it an inspiring and unique event, but we ended up attracting some incredibly service-minded men into our Chapter.