Module 1: Recruiting

Recruitment is critical for ensuring that volunteer groups have the strength and skills to support communities before, during, and after an emergency. However, successful recruitment is more than just getting new volunteers through the door.

Module 1: Recruiting can be used to support the effective planning, promotion and selection of new volunteers.

This module includes instructional videos and interviews, tip sheets, case studies, checklists, useful templates (for example, role descriptions) and thinking exercises that will help you to recruit new volunteers more effectively in the future. Please note that this module is a large zipped file and may take a while to download. 

It also includes the Emergency Services Volunteer Recruitment Messaging Toolkit, designed specifically to support the selection of realistic and attractive recruitment messages (both text and pictures) for volunteer recruitment campaigns.

You can also download a reduced file size version of this module here. Note that this reduced file does not include the video files included in the full module, but instead includes YouTube links that you can use to download the videos if and when you need them. 

In addition to improving recruitment, you may also want to improve the way you support new volunteers and lead current and future volunteers:

• Module 2: Onboarding can be found here.
• Module 3: Leading can be found here.