Our college system has identified 3 areas that we will focus on when recruiting new admissions staff. These same 3 areas will be the focus of development in our existing staff. Professionalism, Education and Passion. We feel that professionalism is the key to credibility in admissions. We have established educational requirements for new hires and are looking to provide educational growth for existing staff through a number of internal modalities. With the constraints on compensation admissions may no longer appeal to those types of people who did the job to earn high wages, passion will need to be the driving force for a successful and fulfilled admissions advisor. The 3 characteristics names were not absent in our current staff, but with the past focus on skill sets that persuasion and sales, hiring and training lent themselves to supporting those qualifications.
