How Our Recruitment Works

The Dambusters have had a revamp in recruiting staff which sees Debbz remain while Devilslotus and Bonesi have joined the team to replace the offline Sonicay.

Debbz’ main areas of play in Warcraft involve trawling the Blizzard forums and not actually playing the game that much, certainly not during peak times. He’s a social animal (animal being the right word) who prefers comedic 1 to 1 interaction with players outwith the guild to build up his own network of friends. I hope he can get more actual game time soon because it’s important to keep up with events in game which is a very different, faster-paced world where people come and go in contrast to the forums where the things we say remain available for all to read at any time.

Bonesi follows similar lines with his own enjoyment of using the forums to stay abreast of who’s looking for what. Answering forum posts in which people are looking for guilds is an important task and that’s the kind of thing our own Bonesi does best. He also plays the game plenty and is a mainstay in Stonewrought raid team so he has an angle on what type of skills the team needs in order to maintain at least the current quality.

A crucial part of the guild is our recruitment and like any other guild in the game, recruitment is the lifeblood since inevitably we will see wastage as people grow out of the game, find other games to play, find other guilds or even have real life issues which force a total halt to their WoW careers. In an ever-changing environment, it is really important that we move with the times especially with so much competition among the bigger guilds for the players to bolster our rosters.

We decided that it is no longer possible to keep going along the road of trying to mainly recruit through the forums. The forums are the ideal place to find dedicated new members because they have time to browse and think about what they want, read recruitment posts and find the right fit for them. Ideally anyone looking for a guild would go down this route but in today’s game people want it now! They look for a guild in tradechat and if you are not there to take a chance on a player in tradechat then they will be lost to another guild as quick as you can say /ginvite.

For this reason, I decided we should try to cover tradechat and with Devilslotus and myself primarily keeping an eye out there and with our different online times we try to cover as much of the day as we can. I think there is a chance we could open up our tradechat message pairing to include the forum focused guys but that discussion is yet to happen.

What Devils and I are doing is synchronising our standardised guild recruitment message that goes out once every 10 minutes but never overlaps each other, using a very helpful addon which pays attention to any other officers in the guild using the same addon to send messages to tradechat.

We have had some nice recruits through this medium and although this part of the recruitment system is rudimentary, it has netted us some gems over the years even while we have tried to steer away from tradechat recruitment.

Like any other forward thinking organisation in a competitive market, we must move with the times and current times dictate we cannot turn our noses up at the tradechat these days, as long as we use it correctly and continue to filter out people who are too lazy to visit our website and apply.

It’s a 24/7 task to keep the guild’s lifeblood turning and it’s something I am committed to continuing. We do have struggles finding the right people but I think we are feathering close to that sweet spot of balance between being accessible to all yet maintaining the asshat filter. Last thing we want to do is open the floodgates to any old dross and there’s plenty of that going about.

/Salute