Presentation1 staffrecruitment

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.

Keith SchochKeith Schoch

KLSchoch@aol.comKLSchoch@aol.com

KSchoch@bedminsterschool.orgKSchoch@bedminsterschool.org