Recruitment Strategies

Challenges

• Why don’t we get more people to run for elections?

Benefits

• Why do YOU volunteer?

• What has kept you volunteering year after year?

Potential Candidates

• What type of volunteer are we looking for?

Identifying Candidates

• How do we identify potential candidates?

Incentives/Rewards

• How do we motivate potential candidates to run?

• What incentives or rewards could be offered to our volunteers?

Recruitment Practices

Filene Research Institute

Recruitment Practices

• Strategies in place to ensure diversity of new board members

• Nomination committee works year around identifying a wide variety of potential candidates

Recruitment Strategies

Filene Research Institute

Recruitment Strategies

1. Networking with personal contacts, business associates or credit union members

Recruitment Strategies

2. Rely on existing committee (i.e. supervisory committee member) or associate/assistant non-voting board member

Recruitment Strategies

3. Publicize board opening in newsletter, website or through flyers and postings within credit union

Recruitment Strategies

4. Nominating committee is instrumental in securing good board members

Recruitment Strategies

4. Determine needs of the board (i.e. skills, knowledge, representation) and then candidates are sought to fill those needs

Additional Recruitment Strategies

Additional Recruitment Strategies

• Get organized– Document the opportunities to participate in

running the credit union including the various positions and committees with job descriptions

• Publicize– Publicize it for the membership

Additional Recruitment Strategies

• Offer flexibility– Start by asking people to take on

something small

• Promote the benefits– Resume experience– Financial management and knowledge– Training– Social events

Our Recruitment Practices