3 | Staff Recruitment: Invest in the People

In this series of episodes we’re taking a deep dive addressing how staff recruitment is needed more than ever and what the people around the camp community are doing about it. 

Make sure you have your swim buddy because we are JUMPING IN! On this episode, Jack Schott, Sarah Kurtz Mckinnon and Carly Vargas dive deep into retention plans (both monetarily and relationships), balancing camp professionalism and camp fun, AND sending support to those that support your staff. Do you have your coffee? You may need your coffee for all this. 

The team addresses what barriers your staff may need to overcome to get to camp and Kurtz with her MBA draws parallels to staff recruitment and donor relationship building. If you’re looking for more than the average touchstone ideas and ways to invest in your people, this is the pod for you. 

Producer EmJ’s takeaways:

1. Everything you do recruits
2. Think about the story you're selling and the audience you want to cultivate
3.  Sometimes you don't need to be a professional, you just need to be human

Next week the staff recruitment conversation will continue with 
Allison Klee and EmJ Juszczyk!

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