I've never been good at remembering expressions or using them appropriately (e.g. "don't put the cart before the horse," or "don't put all your eggs in one basket"). I'll inevitably screw them up somehow and very confidently say something like "don't put all your eggs before the horse." Well, there's an expression that I should have tried out earlier than later that goes something like "ask and ye shall receive, seek and ya shall find."
It worked for the Bible (or at least so I hear) and it works for recruitment, as evidenced by the fact that this blog has gone from have 2 writers to 6 (soon to be 7) in a little over a week. What was my technique? I started seeking out promising students on Facebook (by looking for student government groups) and asking the leaders to write for the blog (until Facebook accused me of spamming), I sent a mass email to all student leaders at my own college, and I basically started telling everyone I could think of that I was recruiting for the blog. It was the mouse technique that I scoffed at in my last recruitment post, and apparently it works! All this time, I had been focusing on convincing a few people I knew to write and totally forgetting about the many amazing people that I had not met or thought of yet.
The other thing I've learned (or perhaps re-learned because I have a sneaking suspicion that I had already smacked myself on the forehead for this) is that you never know who will be right for your organization. For example, Steve DeSiena (sorry to point you out, Steve), is a perfect fit for this blog, but I honestly never thought to ask him directly because I figured that he was too busy and too funny to want to get involved. The forehead smack came when he responded to a mass email I sent, saying that he was interested AND knew someone else who'd be a good fit (Mike Sharp - who is a perfect addition).
The moral of this blog:
You never know who will hatch out of which egg, so put all the eggs into the basket, stick the basket in the cart, and get the horse to go asking because he'll eventually find what he's searching for. Got it?
P.S. Please welcome Nick Chapa, Steve DeSiena, Mike Sharp, and (soon to publish) Kody Tinnel!
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