Super Recruiter

Did I mention I'm VP of Recruitment for the MBA Association now? High five to me! It's something I've pretty much been doing for the past few months -- organizing classmates to reach out to prospective students via email, lunches, class visits, admissions fairs, and info sessions. I like telling people about the things I love, and I do love me some GW Business School.

Anyway, we had our first Super Saturday recruiting event of the year this year (we'll have another in March). This is the same event I attended last year that sold me on the school, so right away I knew I was going to want to help out. It's not your typical visit day -- we actually have the prospectives sit through 4 mini classes that represent our values (teamwork, quant, business responsibility, and international business). Then we throw in an alumni mentor/current student mentee panel here, a student clubs lunch there, and a presentation by the career center to top off the day. Oh yeah, then we take them out to a fancy schmancy dinner. AND THEN the current students bring them to our weekly IPO, or "Informal Public Outing" (that's business humor, for ya). Allow them to let loose with an open bar after a long long day.

GREAT SUCCESS! After a focus group of classmates who attended last year, we made an already awesome event outstanding. Last year, we had a 50% conversion rate of folks who came to Super Saturday and then committed. I wouldn't be surprised if that number was higher this year. Our biggest selling point is how cool the students are. The most common thing they said was, "I can't believe how nice/friendly/open/honest/down to earth/real everyone is. It's not like that at other schools." "We know," we reply with a smile. "That's why we love it here." Not to mention we have a brand new curriculum that is already kicking ass and taking names (What's up 2nd tier BusinessWeek rankings?! Whoop whoop!)

Okay, this is definitely stream of conciousness procrastination type of writing. Needless to say, I wasn't able to accomplish much work this weekend, as I was gone Saturday from 7:30am to 3am. yowza. (I tried to outlast them at the bar, but I finally broke down and left out of exhaustion when there were still 2-3 left. cripes!). Not to mention we had a welcoming event Friday night for them that kept me out late that night too.

And this week is ridiculous. I think I have about 7 things due for 5 classes in 3 days. And the Follies show goes up next week, so rehearsals galore for that right now.

I'm known in my class for being the one who doesn't sleep.