Recruiting - Choosing your recruit or not?

Call me old school but I highly believe that every recruit is a good recruit and that one should never pre-judge a potential recruit. However, if you are a busy Leader who has a substantial team then perhaps it is time to fine tune your searches!

This can be a bit harder to grasp than it first appears because suddenly in the middle of something that you have been comfortable doing we are going to switch it up. I agree this a lot of new thoughts and new ways of doing things but I hope the list below will help you and also make it a bit easier too.

For starters, you need to determine what is a clear picture of the ideal candidate for you and your team? Well you probably want:
- neat in appearance - organized - intelligent - a people person - a cheery personality - financially capable and able to commit the time needed
Those are some great ideas but let's focus much more directly, such as:
- lives in my neighborhood or not too much farther  - aged 27 - 50  - Females preferred(?)  - has a simple life  - does not have too many children  - energetic  - has morals and integrity  - has something similar to you (IE: works out, loves to sew, very creative or is a soccer mom)(whatever you might think would make both of you find common ground)
I want you to really delve into the reasons you need/want a new recruit and then ask yourself who would you enjoy working with. Naturally you want to find a person who is also looking for you. Someone who needs an extra income, would like to get out of the house a couple of nights a week or who has great business skills and would really excel at this.

The more "Connections" you have with the person the better. No one wants to be sold into selling any product. People want to feel a genuine "I can do that" response and feeling like this is what I was missing!

When you are met with rejection don't follow your head on this because our gut says "WHY?" Why don't they like me or Why would she/he not want to do this. Forget the "Why" and accept the answer as it stands and you know what they may come back to you sooner than you think. It has happened to me, instead of questioning their answer I was completely polite and said "Ok no problem you take care." and I walked away  The person was so impressed with the way I handled the rejection she came back to me only a few weeks later and she signed up. It can happen to you too!! Be respectful and courteous in all that you do and it will come back! Remember...

                                            Life is too short.............so go out and Party!!!

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