Recruitment Drive

The Recruitment Drive is ACM’s primary recruitment event on the Tuesday after Minerama (usually the first Friday of the semester). Each SIG prepares and presents a 5-7 minute presentation about what the sig does and why students should join their sig.

General Preperation

2 Weeks Before

  • Presentation - Each SIG should develop or update a 5-7 minute recruitment presentation about their SIG.
  • Room Reservation - Reserve the room. We usually use Toomey 199 in Fall and CS 207 in the Spring.

1 Week Before

  • Advertisement - ACM should develop a flyer and hang it around the CS building at least 1 week before the event.
  • Practice - Each SIG should present their presentation to the ACM Executive board to iron out any potential issues and improve their presentation.

Day Of

  • All of the presentations should be shared with the ACM President or other Executive board member so they can be setup for the drive.
  • The ACM President should develop an agenda of when each of the SIGs, ACM, and ACM-W will present their presentations

Agenda

The ACM President should develop an agenda for which SIG will present when. Make sure to leave 10-15 minutes after the event for people to ask questions. Encourage the SIG chairs to stay after the presentations so that students can come up directly and ask questions afterward.

Tips + Tricks

  • Attendance - The recruitment drive attedance varies greatly between Fall and Spring. During Fall, many new students want to become involved in students organizations or old students want to give student groups another shot. ACM and the Committees should heavily prioritize preparing for the Fall recruitment drive to attract new members and set them up for success while they choose to be involved in ACM. Most attendance to the Recruitment Drive is driven through word of mouth (i.e. friends inviting their friends say ‘this looks cool, lets join’) so try to be mindful of that with flyer advertisements.
  • Keep presentations engaging but honest - Having very impressive numbers join ACM through committees is great, but you must be honest with your expectations, what the committee does, and workloads to prevent a massive retention problem. Make some jokes, have some fun, but be very clear with your mission and objectives.

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