CONTACT EXAMPLES:

First point of contact is always important in my perspective as it sets a positive tone and builds a welcoming relationship between myself and the correspondent. I aspired to get as many participants on board as possible, and with having the additional role of conducting alumni interviews I felt this demeanour was highly appropriate to accomplish this successfully. Therefore, I ensured all my messages were enthusiastic and catered to the one person, and not a copied and pasted format. I believe little details like this demonstrate good reputation and a keen interest for their involvement.

Since we decided as a group to share the first year’s responsibility, we suggested it would be beneficial to jump on one of their study calls to introduce ourselves properly and to discuss what we needed from them upon visiting their sessions. Unfortunately, the remainder of my group forgot about the call, so I led this autonomously

Personally, I felt this was quite daunting, especially when put on the spot as I am not the most outgoing speaker! Nonetheless, the call went great! From being a first year myself, I could resonate with and prepared myself for the unresponsive nature and shyness. I was optimistic and engaging whilst remaining professional as our year are the year they look towards. I followed the call up with a ‘thank you’ message within their Facebook group as shown above.