Guild Shopping !! A How to Guide:

Ok guild shopping i mean this in a good way. Before you join a guild any guild there are a few thigns to do.

RESEARCH: PREP WORK for Pre-Application

1.) what do you want to do in wow? raid, pvp, pve, small groups?
2.) watch trade chat .. see how members of the guilds you're interested behave .. if someone is acting like a jerk in trade no doubt he will be the same in gchat and annoy the hell out of you.
3.) invite people from guilds you are interested in for instances, pvp, or ask if they are intersted in going to xyz instance. This is to test player skill, personality, see how they react to a wipe and show off your stuff.
4.) repeat this 2x that should be enough time for you to get to know them and show off your stuff.
5.) by now hopefully you've made a friend or are on friendly terms with a few of your target guild .. ask about application

APPLICATION:
Things to look for, questions to ask, and what to share.

1.) Ask to see thier website and read everything, listen in on thier vent during a raid or instance,
2.) What's thier loot policy ? read the fine print see if it's something you can live with
3.) How do they pick slots for raiding? Do they have mandatory raid or wow time requirements?
4.) Do they have a class lead? Ask to talk to him or her via chat. Does the class lead sound like he knows his stuff? Open to suggestions or what not because that's your immediate supervisor.

While all this is going on you should be watching for is how people present themselves, is it l33t chat, loot linking, cussing, sexually derogatory wording racist etc. Would you be friends would these people in RL? Do you like hanging out with em?

POST Application: wait 1 week if no reply whisper an officer asking for an update, if it's in progress then wait a bit. no you dont' say invite me now! when ? now?. lol you may get the kick before you've been accepted.

Seriously a guild application is like a job application. What can you do for us? Why us? Who are you? Show us your personality. Read your app over! Spell check? Grammar? proof it? If you're like WTF why should i do all that this is just a game. Well then if that's your attitude then you wont fit in here cuz we take our game seriously and if you can't be bothered to make an effort why should we? Anyways a guild is a group of like minded people and if you dont agree with a guild starting from it's application ..then you dont' belong here.

Me? lawl I am an expert because i've been on the interviewing end as class lead and RL tons of job interviews. As class lead my job was to make sure that everyone I screen fits in our guild in both personality, policy, and goals. I only dealt with priests and alot of times it was listening and reading between the lines. I also reread our guild charter to remind myself who we are and what are our guild goals and ideals. This is to avoid the warp that is me. So yah. fun stuff.

Anyways with all this said this is how you find a good guild.