Obtaining Prospective Members

Some universities or colleges of engineering will supply information or provide events (such as orientation or campus tours) to help you meet the new students entering school. This is a very good method for obtaining the names of the potential new members. In many cases, a crucial step in the process will be for your chapter and its members to offer assistance with orientation, tours, or move-in day. A moment to talk about Theta Tau at such events should be requested if possible, or flyers handed out if permitted, or failing that, simply wear your letters so that new students see Theta Tau.

Separately, each chapter should maintain an on-going list of contacts and names of each member’s acquaintances who should be considered for membership. An excel file would be the most common manner to maintain such a list today but it could supplemented via a facebook page as well.

The excel record should include each individual’s contact information, number, means, and dates of contacts, and their response, participation, or attendance "history" (i.e., the results of contacts, pledge bids, etc.) The file can be categorized to keep the working list manageable with such designations as: "current rushees," "deferred til next semester," "dropped," "pledged," etc. A detailed excel template is available from the Central Office. Additional recruitment resources are available from PhiredUp, with whom we periodically consult: