[Deptheads] Recruitment

[Strategicon Department Heads]

I asked our webmaster what we could do to make it easier for people who
want to volunteer to get to the volunteer inquiry form. Tanya is going to
put a "Volunteer Here" button next to the "Register Here" button...which
actually helps me, but not so much you. However, she also plans on
separating out the GM and Volunteer information into 2 pages instead of the
1 page...less info to wade through might be helpful. Obviously, any
volunteer inquiries I receive which are requests for GM information, I will
forward to you (or the appropriate dept supervisor).
Putting on my other hat now, as the SJG liaison, I can tell you I had a
heck of a time getting GMs (MIBs) for Gamex. Between KublaCon, Memorial Day
activities, and other things (including one on his honeymoon, and a couple
demoing or volunteering in other departments), we were super GM- light.
Including this GM and Volunteers wanted information in marketing would
help. Getting the word out to the FLGS would be helpful, such as flyers. I
managed to recruit 1 volunteer from a game store by talking about
Strategicon when I was demoing there. He hadn't heard of the con before. So
I think flyers would be helpful. (In fact, I'd love some for RageCon end of
June, and will make my own if I have to!)
Karla :-)

On Tue, May 28, 2019, 11:09 AM Strategicon Department Heads <
deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:

> Message From: Shane Sauby  ssshanucon at yahoo.com
> Hello all,
>
> At my BGHQ Wrap Up meeting, the major issue discussed was GM recruitment.
> I do not know how other departments are doing, but I have seen a steady
> decline in the number of GMs over the past couple of years.  My staff
> pointed out to me that we need some "new blood."  So, we brainstormed a
> bunch of ideas on how to increase awareness.  There were two ideas that
> everyone thought would be easy to implement and be effective.
>
> The first idea is to put a blurb and Volunteer Page link on the Home Page
> and the Registration Page.  We have discovered that there is a decent
> amount of interest that is not getting tapped due to lack of knowledge.  So
> we would like people coming to the convention website, especially for the
> first time, to see that there are volunteer opportunities.  We thought the
> Home Page, which people go to first, and the Registration Page, where
> experienced convention attendees may link to directly, would be good places
> to let people know they can earn a free badge by running stuff for us.
>
> The second idea was to include a similar request in our marketing
> information, especially our marketing e-mails.  A link to the volunteer
> page could be included, so when people open the e-mail they can go directly
> to the page and find out what they would need to do to volunteer and earn a
> badge.
>
> It was suggested that links be included to contact me, since this was
> mainly for Boardgames, but I realized that other departments might have
> similar issues or be interested in trying to do the same thing, so I figure
> just a link to the volunteer page would work best.
>
> Do these sound like reasonable/good ideas?  Would this be something we
> could implement before Gateway?
>
> Shane Sauby
> Boardgames Supervisor
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