Recruitment Activities

If you're a Regional Finalist, congratulations! We hope you'll be attending our Recruitment Day on Saturday. To get you excited about attending, here's a couple of stories from past recruitment activities: last year's Recruitment Day and this past fall's Interview Skills Day.

Recruitment Day
by Austin Kestler (freshman)

Recruitment Day is coming up this week for all the potential ECU Teaching Fellows of 2008. This is a very important day for those deciding whether or not ECU is the right school for them. (Which it should be, ARGH!). I know when I came to ECU a year ago for the first time, I was very nervous and anxious to explore what the campus had to offer. I was greeted warmly by Dr. Corbin and Mrs. Parrish. We learned interview skills that would help us in the finals of the selection process. We also began to meet with advisers in our particular field of study and got to talk to ECU Teaching Fellows that were already here to tell us how much they like ECU. This day for me was what made me decide to come to ECU. I attended other school's Recruiting Day events and didn't receive the same warm welcome. Now that another year has passed it is time for this day again. I've offered my time to attend this event to help nervous young recruits and make them feel more at ease about college.

Interview Skills Day
by Kaitlin Bunch (freshman)

My cousin recently attended the Interview Skills workshop on November 3. She is currently a high school senior and has applied for Teaching Fellows. She came to me Sunday at church and was telling me all about the things she had done at the workshop. I think two of the things she was most excited about was actually being on campus for the day and getting to know some people around here that are interested in the same things as she is. She told me that she really liked how everything was informal and the speakers. Her least favorite aspect of the workshop was that it was after her local interview. She said that the things she learned at the workshop would have really helped her with the first interview. There were things that she did well on at the first interview but she would have done so much better had the workshop been earlier.

I remember the Interview Skills workshop that I attended last year and I know how much it helped me. I think my most favorite part was the session with Catrina Davis. She was very interesting and very memorable. Those kinds of events can be kind of overwhelming at times because you realize that this is it . . . that you are one step closer to that final interview. Ms. Davis helped to put me at ease and get comfortable. I thought of those things before and during my interview and that made all the difference in the world. I hope that everyone had as good a time as my cousin did and they got as much as they could out of it so that they, too, can have successful interviews!