Greetings all. Today marks the one month mark from when Star Wars the Force Awakens debuts in theatres in Europe, and then a day later in North America. It also marks the day when Star Wars Battlefront, the first marquee Star Wars game released since Disney and Lucasfilm joined forces.

We all know what we have been expecting as a club: a windfall of new membership, swept up in the wave of Star Wars fandom, one that will change the shape of the club as we all know it. However, we’re not going to be able to take advantage of that simply by existing. We’re going to need to work for it.

Over the past year, we’ve been working to transform our main page to one that is not welcoming only to members, but also an intriguing source of Star Wars news for visitors. With help from the Herald and Seneschal’s office, our front page has never been more attractive to the grander Star Wars audiences. We’ve seen an increase in acquired traffic to the website in the realms between 20 to 25% more sessions being brought to the site via social media, organic searches and direct link shares, and the increase has been trending upward for the last two quarters.

However, the time has come now that we need to expand our efforts. We need feet on the ground as well as more voices online sharing our club, and trying to recruit people to join the club.

To this end, I am opening up positions on the recruitment team within the Social Media and News teams. Positions on this team are responsible for the outward face of our club on the internet at large, and therefore the application process itself will be significantly different than the majority of positions opened up in the Brotherhood.

If you’re interested in joining the team, at some point in the future, I’ll be emailing out a packet of news stories from around the web. You will need to evaluate the sources, choose which articles are worth posting on the site, and which are worth sharing on social media. You’ll then need to compose the news articles as well as gather resources and write markdown. Your application will be based off the speed of response, your choices of what to post and where, as well as the content you write.

If that hasn’t scared you off, email me at [Log in to view e-mail addresses] with the email title RECRUITMENT TEAM TRY-OUT.