13: Candidate Recruitment

Recruiting the highest-quality candidates and actively engage women and minorities.

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The RNC, working with state party chairmen and outside groups, must become much more intentional about candidate recruitment to ensure that we are recruiting the highest-quality candidates with the greatest potential for leadership and make certain that we are actively engaging women and minorities in our efforts. While RGA, NRSC, NRCC, and RSLC traditionally take the lead in this effort, we need better communication between state party leadership and the RNC to identify potential candidates well in advance who can be approached, recruited and trained for vacancies at all levels. According to our survey, "Candidate recruitment" ranked third overall of areas most in need of improvement, with 22 percent of respondents listing it as one of their top three priorities.

Stakeholder(s):

• Women


• Minorities

Objective(s):

13.1: Minority & Women Candidates

13.2: Local Candidates

13.3: Candidate Recruitment Training

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