In this piece, we discuss how to create an online application form for your summer camp in order to streamline the hiring process and help you attract the best candidates.
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By the end, you’ll have all the tools you need to enhance your recruitment process and connect with the best summer camp counsellors in your area.
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Creating an online application form for your summer camp is easy and efficient.
Here’s how to collect all the necessary information from potential camp counsellors:
Include fields for basic information such as name, email, and phone number.
Add questions to assess their background, such as “Have you worked at a summer camp before?” “What activities or skills can you lead?” and “What age groups are you comfortable working with?”
Provide a section for candidates to upload their resume and cover letter.
Include a place for comments, availability, as well as open-ended questions such as “Why are you interested in joining our camp team?”
This online and simplified approach can help you efficiently gather information from candidates and help you select the best counsellors for your camp.
With Activity Messenger, you can create customized questions that probe into a candidate’s history, expertise, and approach to camp activities.
This will allow for a deeper understanding of the candidates and their potential fit with the culture and values of your camp.
Here are a few effective questions to include on an application form for a summer camp staff member:
📌 Pro Tip: In working with hundreds of summer camps across North America, I have found that keeping the forms short and sweet is the best way to go. This will help you get more applicants and make it easier for people to apply from their smartphones. Adding open-ended questions will not only help you get to know applicants better, but will also give you a good idea of who is really interested in applying.
One of the biggest benefits of using Activity Messenger for your recruiting process is the instant notification feature.
Whether it’s via email or SMS, you get a notification every time someone applies, so you never miss a potential candidate.
This is critical in today’s job market, where great candidates can receive job offers very quickly.
📌 Pro Tip: We try to respond within an hour of receiving an application whenever possible. What we’ve found over the years is that the best candidates tend to apply for more than one position and are quick to find a job. Being quick to respond in today’s marketplace gives us a leg up in attracting the right candidates.
Our application form supports resume and cover letter uploads in addition to standard questions.
This allows you to collect both resumes and cover letters through the form so everything arrives simultaneously. You get a more complete picture of the applicant’s work and camp experience with the resume, in addition to answers to the important questions you included in the form.
📌 Pro Tip:I’ve learned the value of asking specific questions that are important to your organization after hiring hundreds of instructors over the years. You might get the perfect candidate on paper by reading a resume, but an application will give you more context and a clearer idea of whether they are a good fit.
Expanding your team with outstanding camp counselors is crucial for the success of your summer camp. Utilizing an online application form can help you attract a continuous influx of excellent candidates.
Here is a summer camp application form that was created using Activity Messenger. Test it out and see if you like it!
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