Wednesday, October 15, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Recruit & Select A Dynamic Team To Advance Your Program To The Next Level

Orientation leaders are the first substantial contact that students and their families have with your institution. The great customer service experience delivered by your orientation leaders is the key to eliminating summer melt, improving early retention rates and increasing student satisfaction overall. But how can you best recruit and select a quality team?

Join us on October 15, 2025 when our expert presenter will take you from marketing to match. He’ll share creative outreach strategies, inclusive marketing ideas and motivation perks that will make the leadership position more desirable to students.

You’ll explore methods for designing a comprehensive selection process to balance efficiency, fairness and institutional culture and be able to develop a timeline for recruitment and selection that will best meet the needs of your professional staff – and your student body. Recruit and select an incredible team of orientation leaders invested in propelling your orientation program to the next level – and create a pipeline of student leaders who may go on to serve in other campus leadership positions.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Identify effective recruitment strategies (including marketing techniques and outreach efforts) to attract a unique and qualified pool of Orientation Leader applicants.
• Compare and evaluate selection methods, such as individual interviews, group interviews, and group selection workshops, to determine which best fits your institutional needs.
• Recognize common sources of bias in recruitment and selection and apply strategies to ensure fairness in the process.
• Design a comprehensive recruitment and selection timeline that integrates marketing, application review, interviews and decision-making.
• Implement best practices that align the Orientation Leader recruitment and selection process with institutional values, student success goals and departmental priorities.

Presenter

Dr. Gregory V. Wolcott has over 26 years of experience in higher education, specializing in orientation, transition, retention, first-generation services, conduct, restorative justice, multicultural affairs, student government, and leadership development. 
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