Zeta Tau Alpha Recruitment 2015 Philanthropy Night

For my sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha, I had the privilege to be the VPIII. This means I was in charge of Recruiting new members for our chapter. Every Spring, right after Christmas break and the start of a new semester, one of the biggest events for Greek Life occurs, Recruitment! With every great event, there needs to be a great leader and that is where the Recruitment Chairmen comes in. Her duty is to make sure everything is just right so that they can wow the PNMs. Before actual recruitment comes long months of preparation from the Recruitment Chair and the Chapter. It isn’t easy to keep girls energized after long rounds of recruitment. This requires a leader who can organize, plan, and motivate the chapter throughout the entire process. Along with being a good leader, I got the chance to use event planning skills from previous internships to make each round a success.

Lets start with the first night, Philanthropy! This night is all about our organizations efforts to support Breast Cancer Education and Awareness. This is our time to educate potential new members about our events on campus and how we raise money and awareness for our Philanthropy.

Each round is planned to the exact minute from when the girls enter your house to when they have to leave. Time management is very important for each round. After the girls enter the Zeta house we had 12 minutes of talking then a 5 minute video, then 13 minutes after the video to continue talking. Here is a peek at what our philanthropy video was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8b4fBGa58k

Now, Let’s talk decorations. Zeta’s colors are Turquoise Blue and Steele Gray but breast cancer has everyone “Thinking Pink” (see what I did there?) In order to make sure everyone new what we were all about, we pinked-out the zeta house with pink balloons, pink lights, pink tulle and even pink shirts. It looked great! It really showed them how passionate we are about our Philanthropy by our decorations and by how we expressed to the our philanthropy’s importance to us.

Here are some pictures of our decorations: