March 3rd was our first day on campus. We walked down from our hotel - about a 10-15min walk. it's hot here btw! I was nervous as can be. Brad and I had already spit up campus - so now it was time for me to find some class rooms to make announcements in! The goal is to get 3 an hour. and i have 10 mins do do this. I have to run in, get a teachers permission to make an announcement - then run into another class that looks like it's starting, ask persmission there, then run fund antoher, ask the prof, get permission, then run back to the first class, make the 2 mins announcment - run to the second, and the third. While doing this, I have to hand out all these little booklets for the kids to sign up on. When the classes end, I have to run back in, (usually running up tons of stairs b/c the lecture halls are all stadidum style) find and collecet all the books, then run around to find 2-3 more classes to make another announcement in. All day! in bewteen classes we are supposed to be entering all the email addresses we get. Hoever, at QUT, we coudln't get on the internet ALL week on campus, so after a long day of running around, literall all day, we had to walk back to a hostle, pay for internet, and enter then all in then. I was never done before 11pm. OH yeah, and eating is definetly limited. the days are so busy, which is good, makes time go by - but some times you forget to eat!
Monday i got in 20 announcements and 296 sign ups (highest out of all the group - except for the recruiter who has been doing thing for 3 seaons in a row) , Tuesday i made 22 anncements. and got 173 sign ups, then Wednesday we went to one of their satalite campuses and made 12 announcemetns, and got 314 sign ups! I was lucky on that campus b/c i got a massive lecute hall that turned over every hour! so instead of having to run around and fine 3, I could just do one and hour there, b/c there were 500 kids in the class every hour. And since it was a different campus, none of them had heard the info before.
Thursday - march 6th, our first meeting day! - - We have to run info meeting, all day, every hour on the hour, starting a new one at 9,10,11,12,1, 2, 3, 4 and 5pm! When the meeting ended, I'd handle the applications, and before i was done, it was time for brad to start the meeting over. I was on my feet the ENTIRE day, and my feet hurt so badly by around 2-3pm. No food either :( we have to plan better - there has just been no times this week due to having no internet. Hopefully we'll have time at our next campus to go food shoping so we don't have to buy lunch and dinner every day. It's SOOOO expensieve here! A 20oz coke is $3. A small black coffee from an indi coffee shop is $3. dinners are never less than $18. booo!
So our first meeting ended up good - we got 124 people to the meeting, and got applicationgs from 82 of them. We are supposed to get at least a 70% conversion rate, but since it was our first week, a 66% isn't that bad. We also got the most applications out of all the teams, so that's cool. Also - people have gone online since the meeting, and sent apps in that way. So dispite all the stress, the first week ended up ok.
Yesterday was Friday march 7th - so that means we had to overnight everything to the sydney office, (money and applications, reports...ect) We had to go to our next campus and set up there. Find the big halls, internet...ect. Unfortunrely, there aren't any massive halls there :( so i dont think it'll be as big of a week. Also the way campus and the class rooms are set up, it looks like it'll be hard to get in more than 1 or 2 per hour. I'm gonna try though!
I'm in a hostle in brissie now. This morning at 7am, both bathrooms on my floor had puke all over them. not sure why the guy had to switch stall to thow up. There were still people on the roof top pation boozing, and there were people making out in the 4th floor laundry room. haha. gotta love hostles! I really haven't run into any other americans this whole time. one guy in one of the classes was actuly from san dieog, and one guy actully tried out for my job! but didn't get hired. (An aussie that wanted to recruit in the US).
