Finding the Right Fit: Effective Camp Staff Recruitment
January 21, 2025
Session description:
Recruiting the right staff is critical to delivering a safe, engaging, and memorable Camp experience. Learn how to define the ideal candidate profile, utilize recruitment tools and create an engaging hiring process that ensures the right fit for your Camp.
This session will have line interpretation in Chinese and Spanish!
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Facilitator: Gabrielle Raill
Speaker: Tennant Kiu
A special “Thank you!” to the ICF Academy team for coordinating the presentation of this episode: Dr. Gwynn Powell, Gabrielle Raill, Kate Taylor & Alexia Sideri. An even more special thanks to Ruth Feng and Luciana Contreras for interpreting live!
Some statistics
116 participants joined for the live episode (90 in Zoom, 26 in Tencent), from 18 countries.
- Belgium
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- England
- Greece
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- USA
- Venezuela
The mean participation time was 72 minutes out of a total of 90 minutes.
Useful links
Measuring your AQ: https://sites.google.com/view/adversity-quotient/home
What is your AQ? (from the slides): https://www.icfconnect.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/What-is-AQ-and-how-to-measure-it.pdf
Ask prospective staff to complete this personality test and then, if they want, they can discuss the results together. Do they agree with the result? Did any of the questions stand out? Was there a question that they answered one way right now, but last year they would have answered differently?
It just opens discussions about who they are, without asking “tell me one of your flaws”
Personality test CHI: https://www.16personalities.com/ch
Personality test ESP: https://www.16personalities.com/es
Personality test ENG: https://www.16personalities.com/
Great resource to help build staff team for the time between hiring someone to staff training: https://www.acacamps.org/blog/couch-camp-help-your-staff-better-prepare-your-programs-summer-marathon
Project Real Job (supports camps in their efforts to recruit, hire, and retain staff): https://www.acacamps.org/resources/project-real-job
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