[Deptheads] Recruitment

[Strategicon Department Heads]

I’ve added the volunteer button to the bottom of the page.

I’ve also done a little rewording and reorganized the Volunteer page to help people recognize the difference between volunteering as a GM and general volunteering.

Hope this helps everyone.

Tanya

> On May 28, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Strategicon Department Heads <deptheads at strategicon.net> wrote:
> 
> Message From: Karla Freeman  thesquirrelwrangler at gmail.com
> 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 <mailto:deptheads at strategicon.net>> wrote:
> Message From: Shane Sauby  ssshanucon at yahoo.com <mailto: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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