presentation1 staffrecruitment
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Finders, Keepers: Finders, Keepers:
Recruiting and Retaining Recruiting and Retaining Quality StaffQuality Staff
Step One: Step One:
Update Your Update Your Publicity MaterialsPublicity Materials
Step Two: Step Two:
Contact Your Contact Your Previous StaffPrevious Staff
Step Three: Step Three:
Seek Out Your Seek Out Your Staffers Who Came Staffers Who Came from Other Camps from Other Camps
Step Four: Step Four: Contact Contact References on File for New References on File for New LeadsLeads
Step Five: Step Five: Recruit Recruit the Referencesthe References
Step Six: Step Six:
Make the College Make the College ConnectionConnection
Step Seven: Step Seven:
Contact National Contact National Service FraternitiesService Fraternities
Step Eight: Step Eight:
Contact Volunteer Contact Volunteer OrganizationsOrganizations
Step Nine: Step Nine:
Become Involved in Become Involved in Youth Pastor NetworksYouth Pastor Networks
Step Ten: Step Ten:
Hold a Hold a Staff ReunionStaff Reunion
Step Eleven: Step Eleven:
Go to “the Source” for Go to “the Source” for Specialized StaffSpecialized Staff
Step Twelve: Step Twelve:
Contact Local ChurchesContact Local Churches
Step Thirteen: Step Thirteen:
Recruit from Groups that Use Recruit from Groups that Use Camp in the Off-SeasonCamp in the Off-Season
Step Fourteen: Step Fourteen:
Sponsor Training Events at Sponsor Training Events at Your SiteYour Site
Step Fifteen: Step Fifteen:
Offer Your Site Offer Your Site to Local Collegesto Local Colleges
Step Sixteen: Step Sixteen:
Offer Leadership Staff as Offer Leadership Staff as Guest SpeakersGuest Speakers
Step Seventeen: Step Seventeen:
Update Your Website to Update Your Website to Include a Staff SectionInclude a Staff Section
Step Eighteen: Step Eighteen:
Offer PreSeason TrainingOffer PreSeason Training
Step Nineteen: Step Nineteen:
Seek Out Gifted and Seek Out Gifted and Talented ProgramsTalented Programs
Step Twenty: Step Twenty:
Reach Out to Your Camp’s Reach Out to Your Camp’s Contact PeopleContact People
Step Twenty-One: Step Twenty-One:
Interview Your Best Staffers Interview Your Best Staffers from Last Summerfrom Last Summer
What made you finally say yes to What made you finally say yes to working at our camp? What working at our camp? What
was the deciding factor?was the deciding factor?
What lesson did you learn at camp What lesson did you learn at camp that you could apply to that you could apply to
the rest of your life?the rest of your life?
What is your single What is your single best memory of best memory of camp? camp?
Step Twenty-Two: Step Twenty-Two:
Design a Junior Staff Design a Junior Staff ExperienceExperience
Step Twenty-Three: Step Twenty-Three:
Provide Provide Feedback to Rejected Feedback to Rejected ApplicantsApplicants
Step Twenty-Four: Step Twenty-Four:
Offer a Offer a Work-Study Work-Study OptionOption
Step Twenty-Five: Step Twenty-Five:
Offer Offer Training to Day Training to Day Camp StaffsCamp Staffs
Step Twenty-Six: Step Twenty-Six:
Create TraditionsCreate Traditions
Step Twenty-Seven: Step Twenty-Seven:
Invest in TrainingInvest in Training
Step Twenty-Eight: Step Twenty-Eight: Go Go to Where the Kids Areto Where the Kids Are
Step Twenty-Nine: Step Twenty-Nine:
Deliver It to Their InBoxDeliver It to Their InBox
Step Thirty: Step Thirty:
Find YourselfFind Yourself
Step Thirty-One: Step Thirty-One:
Keep in Keep in TouchTouch
Step Thirty-Two: Step Thirty-Two:
Train Them All Year LongTrain Them All Year Long
Step Thirty-Three: Step Thirty-Three:
Entertain Entertain ThemThem
Step Thirty-Four: Step Thirty-Four:
Celebrate Celebrate ThemThem
Step Thirty-Five: Step Thirty-Five:
Apprentice ThemApprentice Them
Step Thirty-Six: Step Thirty-Six:
Begin New TraditionsBegin New Traditions
Step Thirty-Seven: Step Thirty-Seven:
Ask the StaffAsk the Staff
Step Thirty-Eight: Step Thirty-Eight:
Set High StandardsSet High Standards
Step Thirty-Nine: Step Thirty-Nine:
Get Out of Your OfficeGet Out of Your Office
Step Forty: Step Forty: Be Be the Difference.the Difference.
