8/10H raid lead here, with a 20man comp.

We don't have a alt/normal raid, so recruiting undergeared players is kind of out of the window for us. Their only options are to pug raids, and hope by the time they're H BRF capable (weeks later) that a core raid spot is still available for them.

With that said, using OpenRaid has been our bread and butter, we would have been dead in the water months ago without it. I create the event, explain that it's a guild run and what they can expect from it (like getting to clear 8/10H in one night), the expectations/how loot works, and list what positions were recruiting.

From there, we just keep re-inviting back the people who performed well and seemed to jive with the rest of the raid. As we start to gear them out, most of us joke around w/ them how they're basically in the guild now and how their name isn't taken on our server yet.

And then you wait. You've already laid the bait, it's on them to take it now. This method recruited me a 682 boomkin just earlier this week. He ran 3 raids with us in a row, we showed him some love, and the next time I logged on I got a whisper from him telling me already realm transferred. Same story with our warlock and a couple others.

Realize though that this is the case with maybe 1 in 10 open raiders. I've noticed that many of them like to be gypsy raiders, always hopping around different realms/raids and meeting new people. Others are already committed raiders to other guilds, but like to raid on their alts on off nights and some have crazy schedules and can't commit to anything regular.

I'm also of the opinion that there are just TOO MANY GUILDS right now, with everyone fighting over the same scraps. SoI went and got in contact with the raid lead of another 8/10H raid on the same server. We came to an agreement to basically be sister raids, allowing us to call in ringers from each others if needed (instead of pugging) and also passing on potential recruits to eachother. How this works is say.. I need a healer and they need a hunter, well I just had a hunter apply so I refer him over to them stating we have an agreement and I can guarantee him a ginvite and tryout/etc. If they recruit healers they don't need, they pass em my way. Both of us are also prepared to merge/absorb raiders in the event that the other group ends up disbanding.

With all that said... I hope you don't mind if I shamelessly plug that we're recruiting 2 non-priest healers to finish off our raid comp over on US-Proudmoore Alliance!