For Programs - Mentoring Program Components - Recruitment

In spite of recruitment’s importance, mentoring programs struggle to meet recruitment goals. These resources span broad concepts to specific approaches.

Effective Mentor Recruitment
The Effective Mentor Recruitment publication will help mentoring programs get organized and get results. No mentoring program can succeed without an adequate supply of volunteer mentors. A shortage of volunteers can mean long lists of youth waiting to be matched, little flexibility in reassigning participants whose matches end prematurely, and a greatly reduced ability to use existing mentors to recruit new volunteers.

Recruitment Tips for a Mentoring Program
The easy-to-ready Tips cover a variety of recruitment program elements, including: recruitment components, volunteer mentor job descriptions, characteristics of a successful volunteer recruiter, potential markets for recruiting of volunteers, and improving communication skills for recruitment planning, etc.