| The Top Ten Most Successful Recruitment Strategies
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Based on his work with more than 200 colleges and universities in five countries, Dr. Jim Black will share the top ten recruitment strategies in the industry today as well as provide a glimpse into emerging and potential strategies. All strategies are grounded in sound student recruitment principles such as decisions influenced by relationships, the importance of using multiple channels of communication, the critical nature of response time, and the necessity of managing institutional “moments of truth” throughout the recruitment process. The webinar will include student recruitment theory, best practices, and opportunities for audience participation.
Objectives
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify and implement best practices in student recruitment
- Evaluate and perfect recruitment strategies
- Gain and sustain a competitive advantage
Who should attend?
- Admissions professionals at all levels within the organization
- Deans
- Program Directors
- Enrollment Managers
- Marketing Staff
- Faculty who engage in recruitment activities
- Others who have a vested interest in student recruitment
Who is the speaker?
The president and CEO of SEM WORKS, Dr. Jim Black, is the founder of the National Conference on Student Retention in Small Colleges and co-founder of the National Small College Admissions Conference and the National Small College Enrollment Conference. He formerly served as the director of AACRAO’s Strategic Enrollment Management Conference. Dr. Black has published numerous articles and book chapters including a feature article in College & University, Creating Customer Delight; a chapter, Creating a Student-Centered Culture, for a book on best practices in student services published by SCUP and sponsored by IBM; a chapter on enrollment management in a Jossey-Bass book on student academic services; as well as a bimonthly feature in The Greentree Gazette. Among his other published works is a monograph titled, Navigating Change in the New Millennium: Strategies for Enrollment Leaders and a book he recently edited, The Strategic Enrollment Management Revolution considered to be a groundbreaking publication for the enrollment management profession, Gen Xers Return to College, and Essentials of Enrollment Management: Cases in the Field.
Black was honored as the recipient of the 2005 AACRAO Distinguished Service Award. He has been interviewed by publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Converge Magazine, The Enrollment Management Report, The Lawlor Review, and was interviewed for AACRAO’s Data Dispenser. Black also was featured in an international teleconference on enrollment management sponsored by The Center for the Freshman Year Experience at the University of South Carolina, and a PBS broadcast on “Blending High Tech and High Touch Student Services”. Since 1999, Jim Black has been an IBM Best Practices Partner, one of only twenty-three in the world. He was invited by The College Board to Heidelberg, Germany, to evaluate the APIEL Exam and most recently was invited to lead conferences on enrollment management and student services in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Dr. Black has served on the boards of several technology companies and has consulted with companies such as Microsoft and the SAS Institute. Higher education clients have included two-year, four-year, public, and private institutions.
How do these on-demand trainings work?
1. We will send you a link to the recording, which is good indefinitely.
2. You can distribute this link to your entire faculty and staff via email.
3. They can watch this presentation from any computer that has Internet and speakers.
How would I use it?
You can distribute the links any way you like. Here are some ideas:
- Distribute all links to faculty and staff so they can watch these presentations anytime, anywhere and have a discussion board for each topic
- Distribute one link to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month during the academic year and plan a discussion session at the end of each month for faculty and staff to get together and plan how they will implement the strategies presented
- Plan a day and time to show each webinar in a large classroom and invite all faculty and staff to attend - debrief immediately following the presentation
- Develop a professional development program around these topics with monthly themes and recognize the staff member that implements the best idea related to the theme
- Utilize these topics to develop cross functional and cross discipline teams to foster collegiality
- Utilize these presentations as part of your new employee training program
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