by Matt Mattson When you look around your campus, do you see success stories? Or do you see the same-old, same-old Greek organizations doing what they’ve seemingly always done? Look around closely at other organizations on your campus? Are they inspiring? Do they challenge your concept of excellence? Or are they just fighting to survive? Read More
by Woody Woodcock Watch this video from www.TheFunTheory.com… This seems to have clear applications to organizational recruitment. For those of you who have been a participant at a Dynamic Recruitment Workshop from Phired Up in the past, raise your hand if you laughed a lot and though it was awesome. Keep your hand up. Now Read More
by Matt Mattson Several members of our team, including me, just read the book Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard. The author, and founder of the company Patagonia, suggests that companies “Tell the people you care about most the good work that you’re doing. That’s what this blog is. I’m proud of our company Read More
by Matt Mattson I got an E-mail recently from a member of Delta Chi Fraternity’s expansion staff (professional fraternity recruiter). There are two great lessons in his E-mail, so I’ll start this blog post by just sharing what he wrote. From: Justin Sherman {Delta Chi HQ} Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:18 AM To: Matt@PhiredUp.com Subject: Greetings! Matt, Hope Read More
by Matt Mattson Your level of recruitment intensity is the difference between an average chapter and a championship chapter. Do you approach recruitment with the Eye of the Tiger? There are chapters that are “survivors,” and there are chapters that are “champs.” Which will you be? Will you be the one who chooses a level Read More
by Matt Mattson During a chapter-specific meeting I had before my program this weekend (we love doing these, by the way), the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Wyoming came up with a great idea that I wanted to share. There are a thousand ways to adapt this idea to your organization. For further inspiration, Read More
by Matt Mattson There it is. That’s my super double secret, world changing, record setting, mind blowing recruitment strategy for 2010. Be Nice to People. At least for a week. Now, we think you should be nice to people all the time. In fact, that’s a major part of being socially excellent. But I wanted Read More
by Josh Orendi Most people think voting happens with a secret ballot or a show of hands in a chapter meeting. This may be true for official orders of business, but there’s a much more obvious and more powerful voting process that’s happening every day. Members – college students in particular – vote with their Read More
The Phired Up team is always reading other blogs, following experts in other industries on Twitter, and looking for outside inspiration. We recently came across a great post from the world of corporate recruiting that really proves that… 1. Social Excellence works. 2. People join people. 3. All the stuff we teach undergraduate college student Read More