Rushing Progress: Conversations for the Modern Sorority Woman Kristi & Christiana

Today we are joined by our first guest ever - Michaela!! Michaela joins us for Recruitment Mini-Series episodes 6 and 7 and brings two years of specialized recruitment experience on the chapter side. Over the past two years, Michaela has played an integral role on her chapter's Recruitment Team and has an understanding of the "behind the scenes" processes that happen during recruitment season.
In this episode, join us for a discussion about the pros and cons of COB. If you're thinking "whoa! what does COB even mean?" - we've got you covered! Michaela joins us for a conversations about the COB process, how it may be the right or wrong choice for you, and things to think about with COB during a pandemic year. We hope you enjoy recruitment mini-series #7!

Today we are joined by our first guest ever - Michaela!! Michaela joins us for Recruitment Mini-Series episodes 6 and 7 and brings two years of specialized recruitment experience on the chapter side. Over the past two years, Michaela has played an integral role on her chapter's Recruitment Team and has an understanding of the "behind the scenes" processes that happen during recruitment season.
In this episode, join us for a discussion about legacies and references. What is a legacy? What does it mean to have a reference? Are either of these things ~actually~ important qualifiers during sorority recruitment? Even though fall recruitment is over on most campuses, we wanted to make this discussion accessible for those considering recruitment in the spring, those going through COB right now, and those who did join a chapter this semester and are curious about these terms. We hope you enjoy our recruitment mini-series #6!

Welcome back to our recruitment mini-series! It can seem like all you hear about recruitment from your friends, recruitment counselors, and online advice platforms is a litany of things you should NOT talk about during recruitment. We know this can cause a lot of stress and increased nerves before recruitment - if there are so many topics and things you should be avoiding...what is a good conversation topic? Today, we give our best tips and advice we've gained from our years of recruitment experience to help ease your nerves and give you some conversation topics to keep on hand. As with our mini-series episode about things to avoid discussing, we want to make clear that this episode and our advice is in no way meant to limit you or make you feel like you can only discuss things we mention - this is just supposed to be a recruitment resource to help ease your nerves! Even though recruitment is ending or over on most campuses, COB is still happening around the country and conversations are still important during that process as well! We hope you enjoy this episode and that you feel more confident for recruitment this year or in years to come!

In today's mini-series episode we share our thoughts on whether or not it's "worth it" to go through recruitment during a pandemic. With most campuses either partially or fully remote for fall 2020, organizations like sororities that are traditionally based in social interaction and in-person bonding face a serious issue. With a large portion of normal sorority operations from ceremonies, to live-in member capacity, to Bid Day, sisterhood events, and recruitment itself moved to online-only forums, how sorority women interact with each other has drastically shifted due to the pandemic. How does that impact potential new members? Is it still worth it to go through recruitment when so many of your new member activities will be strictly over Zoom? Should you just wait to go through recruitment in spring 2020, or wait for a form of informal recruitment like COB? (Don't worry, we'll define what COB means in the episode, too!) Join us as we tackle all of these questions and give our advice for fall 2020 potential new members!

Today's episode is tailored towards campuses that offer the option to go through recruitment to incoming freshmen. These campuses often have pledge classes that seem to be mostly freshmen, and of all of the potential new members going through recruitment, a majority may be freshmen. Joining a sorority is often promoted as a way to make friends and get involved in your first semester on campus and as an organization that allows you to adjust to college with a support system of women helping you. But...what happens if you didn't go through recruitment during your freshmen year and want to join a sorority later in college? We share our thoughts on going through recruitment after your freshmen year and give our opinions on if it's still "worth it" for sophomores, juniors, junior transfers, and seniors to go through recruitment. 

Welcome to the second episode of our Recruitment Mini-Series! Recruitment, whether in person or via zoom, is all about conversations - it's how the recruiter gets to know the PNM (potential new member) and vice versa. However, placing so much weight on such short conversations can cause anxiety, stress, and lots of nerves for everyone involved! Every year, from both recruiters and PNMs, the most common questions we hear is "are there things I shouldn't talk about? Will I get in trouble or will I be seen in a negative way if I talk about certain things"? While we disagree with a lot of the rhetoric surrounding conversation topics in recruitment, we did want to address this topic and give our advice and thoughts. Today, we're sharing our thoughts and tips for conversations topics we think should be avoided during recruitment. We dive into the notorious "5 B's" of recruitment (boys, booze, bucks, Barack, bible) that are so often told to recruiters and PNMs as the ultimate "no-no's" of recruitment conversations. But...should all of these topics really be off limit? Do some of them have some leeway in conversation, or should they be avoided at all costs? We hope you enjoy episode two of our mini-series!