Revisiting Recruiting: The Impact of Language on Candidate Response

[pamela]

In the past few months, I believe that I saw something in a post on here that talked about using the word "recruit" and how it intimidates people and why it shouldn't. Does anyone remember what I am talking about? It was really, really eye-opening for me and when I tried searching for it, you can imagine the list of threads and posts with the word "recruit" in them! If you were the poster, please post it again! If you happen to remember where it was, lead me to it!

Thanks!

 

[imported_pckrissy]

i don't know what thread your talking about but I would love to see it, i HATE the word recruit

 

[Christ Follower]

Our cluster uses the word "sponser."

 

[baychef]

I like to avoid the word too! Living close to Army post that is very active in Iraq and Afghanastan...the word recruit just takes on a negative visual for me. (this is not a slam against any military branch just an association of a word the military uses and I think want something that resembles a non combat future for team members)

I too will search Meg.

 

[imported_pckrissy]

i know other DS companies that use "sponser" , I guess we still don't know where that thread is

 

[baychef]

I did a post search on the word "verbage" and was able to scan those posts...no luck.

Started to scan the "trip I know I can earn it" too long for me to scan. If anyone has regularly posted on this, do you recall anything that would refer to this?

Was it on a file or a post?

 

[BethCooks4U]

I encourage my team to share the opportunity or share information about our business vs recruit. I rarely use the word recruit. Unfortunately, I can't say I'm very successful - I currently only have 2 that have recruited and one of those didn't qualify (but she's submitting in January! WOO HOO - and that's before we knew about the new program).

 

[finley1991]

It's difficult all around -- we talked about this as a group. The word *recruit* can sound too military and the word *sponsor* can sound to AA. We just have to find what words work best for us.

 

[pamela]

maybe it was on CS that I found it....I am off to look over there!