Climbing Tiers

So I finally reached a milestone at work... If you're just tuning in, I am an Enrollment Recruiter for a vocational college. I work against with 15 other Representatives, each on their own mission of hunting down potential students and convincing them that school is the answer to all of life's problems.

For incentive, Management set up a tier system, where the top producers get the best leads (ie phone-ins, walk-ins). The tiers change weekly and contain 4-5 reps. The other 11 get dealt the fake-name-and-number leads. And there is no shortage of those.

So, I hit Tier One last week!... Even I was surprised. I came in, sat at my desk, opened my email and found myself saying out loud "Wow! I'm on Tier 1!", which won me one reluctant "congrats". ...I really shouldn't have been surprised, having enrolled two students the week prior... But I'm new to this whole game. I don't really know how to keep score yet.

...The entire week was a windfall! I scheduled so many solid appointments, it was ridiculous.

Before I was indifferent about tiers, but I'll be damned if I don't get back up to the first tier again. Life is so much easier on top!