Road Warriors
This calendar should always be updated after your school visits are confirmed
What is your Slate travel calendar?
These are two of the four qualities that build strong counselor relationships listed in the Field Guide.
What are trust, responsiveness, consistency, and reliability.
Recruiters should arrive this many minutes early for a college fair.
What is 30 minutes early?
Before you persuade, you should do this.
What is be curious?
The Field Guide says you should never do this while driving.
What is text, email, or use your phone?
The Field Guide recommends arriving this many minutes before a scheduled school visit
What is 10–15 minutes early?
The Field Guide says you should never leave a counselor visit without this.
What is leaving something of value behind? (Folders, Inserts, Pens, Stickers, Pennants, new information/updates, Senior Day/Junior Day postcards)
These students are often curious about USAO but are waiting for you to begin the conversation.
Who are students who make eye contact?
The best recruiters do more of this than talking.
What is listening?
This document is kept in every USAO vehicle's glove box.
What is the vehicle insurance information?
Instead of scheduling one school at a time, the Field Guide recommends organizing visits this way.
What is grouping schools geographically?
During recruiting season, counselors may allow you to leave this in their office to help keep USAO visible.
What is a USAO pop-up display?
The guide says success at a college fair is measured less by information cards and more by this.
What are the quality of the conversations and relationships you begin?
If you don't know the answer to a student's question, the Field Guide tells you to do this.
What is admit you don't know and then find the answer?
If you become tired while driving, the guide tells you to do this instead of pushing through.
What is stop and rest?
A counselor offers only a lunch visit, but most juniors and seniors leave campus. The Field Guide says your first question should be about this.
What is asking whether a classroom presentation or another student engagement opportunity would be more effective?
Instead of asking only for recruiting opportunities, the guide encourages recruiters to ask counselors this question.
What is "How can USAO better support your students?"
This app allows recruiters to collect student information by scanning a barcode or QR code.
What is StriveScan?
Students may forget your presentation, but according to the Field Guide they will always remember this.
What is how you made them feel?
If a situation feels unsafe while recruiting, your first action should be this.
What is leave the area and notify your supervisor?
According to the Field Guide, every school visit should accomplish these two goals.
What are leaving students with a positive impression of USAO and strengthening the university's partnership with the school?
The Field Guide teaches that relationships are strengthened more by doing this than by simply making more visits.
What is consistently serving counselors with reliability and follow-through?
Name three conversation starters found in the Field Guide.
What's your major? Why do you want to study that? What are you looking for in a university? Have you ever heard about USAO? Would you like to? (Any that makes the student relax and engage with you)
According to "The Recruiter's Mindset," name two of the 8 expectations of every USAO recruiter.
According to the Field Guide, this is your first responsibility on every recruiting trip.
What is returning home safely?