Working at Camp is a REAL JOB.

Working at Camp is a REAL JOB! Spending your summer living and working with a group of children can be demanding, it can be tiring but it will be incredibly rewarding and it will help arm you with a plethora of skills. Working at a summer camp gives you the opportunity to develop real leadership skills; camp provides opportunities to lead groups of children as well as collaborate with staff from all around the world. 

Working at camp can, and will provide you with unique skill sets that are transferable to a number of different industries and professions. Below are just a few of the skills that you will demonstrate on a daily basis whilst working at camp:

Collaboration

You will be continuously working with co-staff to combat the daily challenges of camp. Whether that is devising a plan to get sixteen, ten-year-old boys to settle down for lights out or whether it is devising a rewards system to help encourage your nine-year-old female campers to clean up after themselves. Whatever it is, in order to be successful at camp you need to collaborate successfully with your co-staff.

Adaptability

Picture the scene. You are scheduled to go on a hike with our Trek team and your campers are super excited about it. It begins to storm. The hike is canceled and you are left with eighteen disappointed campers. You decided to host a "fashion show" in your cabin, with music and a catwalk. The campers love it and the disappointment of the missed hike is soon forgotten. That is ADAPTABILITY!

Dedication

Giving up your summer to work with a group of kids. Working long hours, six days a week for two months. Hitting the wall and powering through. There are so many examples throughout each summer of staff who display incredible dedication to their job.

Communication

Whether it is communicating with your Group Leader, your Head Specialist, campers, Village Director, or Office Manager throughout the summer you are going to be interacting with a number of people who will rely on the information that you provide them.

It’s not always easy to demonstrate the professional value of your camp experience. After all, most people think of working at camp as a fun job for young people. And the words that appear in camp stories don’t always sound like professional experiences . . . swimming, rest hour, cabin, soccer, and more. But these words are only the context, just like microscopes and statistical software might be contextual words for a research internship. Neither set of words describes the skills that the experience has allowed you to build. The good news is that you are in control of the words you use.