[Must Read] Recruiting Process

[#username],

The recruiting process will usually follow the guidelines below but may be deviated from by approval of the clan leaders for special circumstances.

• The person wishing to join the clan must fill out an application and post it as a new thread in the "Recruiting Center" board.
  
• A Clan Captain or higher will review the application and approve it for interview or deny it. (If denied, please provide a brief explanation in the applicant's message thread)
  
• When the application status is "Application Approved for Interview", one of our membership interviewers will contact the appicant to arrange for the interview.
  
• Once the interview is complete, our staff will discuss how the interview went and a Clan Captain or higher will mark the application as "Application Approved for Tryout" or will deny the application.
  
• Once the application status is "Application Approved for Tryout" the Recruiting Officers can have at em and are expected to attempt to contact the applicant for a tryout as soon as reasonably possible via xfire, skype or whatever means is convenient.
  
• When the applicant completes the tryout, with a MINIMUM of 50 kills, the recruiter will post the final score and comment on any thoughts concerning the applicant's skills, instincts and most importantly how well he / she plays and interacts with others. The recruiter should also say whether he or she recommends the applicant be accepted as a recruit.
  
• If the tryout is passed, a Clan Captain or above must move the application to stage 3 "Tryout Passed. Pending Acceptance" and post that the new recruit may add §§r} tags to his or her name. Notice the lowercase "r" in the tags. This is new and indicates the clan member is a recruit under evaluation. The recruit will have full clan member access to the site and can participate in all clan related activities. The same staff member must also update the member's profile with §§r} tags and update to Clan Member status.
  
• While in stage 3 (Tryout Passed. Pending Acceptance), the recruit will be evaluated for a period of 14 days to have 10 post and 30 post to become a Full Member. During this period of time, the recruit is expected to log into the clan site and actively participate in the forums so we can get to know him / her and evaluate the fit of the recruit to the clan. (this does not mean "me too" posts.) Basically, we are checking to see that the recruit gets along well with us and is someone that we want out there representing our clan. During this period any Full Clan Member may post feedback to the recruit's application thread, good or bad. However overly critical comments should only be private messaged to a Clan Captain or higher.
  
• The recruit must always wear their clan recruit tags during the evaluation period whenever they are in a server.
  
• All Clan Members are expected to live up to our clan standards of conduct and to follow our server rules at all times, even when they are in someone else's server.
  
• If at any time during the initial 14 days the recruit does not demonstrate that he or she truly wants to be an active part of the clan by participating in the forums(at least 10 posts) and servers and / or does not demonstrate behavior suitable for representing our clan, then the application will be denied and the recruit will be contacted to remove clan recruit tags. Clan Captain or higher will mark application as denied.
  
• Otherwise, once 30 posts have been made, if the recruit has followed the rules and played well with others in the servers, shown consistent presence in the forums, has generally been courteous and respectful to others and has reached the maximum score in their Recruit Status meter in their profile, a Clan Captain or higher may post a Yes / No poll in the Low-Rank Administrators board to allow clan officers to vote on whether to accept the recruit as a full clan member. Early release must be approved by a Clan Leader after recommendation from a Monitor or a majority of the Clan Captains and higher. This will not happen unless we already know you very well. SPAMMING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
  
• If the majority of the clan officers responding to the poll vote to accept the recruit as a full clan member then any Clan Captain may approve the recruit as a full clan member and approve the wear of the standard §§} tags. The approving staff member must update the application's status to "Accepted" and, update the member's profile with §§} tags. Clan Leader's votes count double towards breaking any ties and the Clan Leaders reserve the right to overrule the result of the vote if there are exceptional circumstances that they feel were overlooked or misinterpreted.
  
• Once the application is accepted or denied, the recruit's application thread will be locked.

The beginning of the subject title of the application thread will be modified as appropriate to indicate the status of the application as outlined below.

• (PT) Awaiting Tryout
  
• (IP) In Process (pending acceptance)
  
• (AA) Application Approved (Recruit is now a full clan member)
  
• (AD) Application Denied
  
• (DP) DuPlicate application
  
• (IA) Incomplete Application