Staff Recruiting

Parents often ask how we seek out and ultimately hire our summer staff. The most important step occurs in early September as all Ozark staff who are involved in recruiting and hiring summer staff undergo intensive training in how to screen, interview and select applicants. Our training is conducted both by our senior leadership team as well as an outside company, Praesidium, one of the nation’s leading experts in the area of child safety and abuse prevention training. The safety of our campers is paramount, and our pre-recruiting training is geared specifically with this in mind.

After training, our recruiters, typically young professionals a year or two removed from college, spend the next several months traveling to various schools and universities where they spend up to a week at a time. During their time on campus, our staff uses a vast variety of resources to seek out the very best applicants. They are able to identify and recruit leaders from various campus groups and organizations, social clubs, athletic organizations, Christian and church groups, references from previous Camp Ozark staff…all of these avenues are used to generate interest and seek out applicants.

There is no shortage of awesome things to do here either, but we believe what truly makes camp fun for our staff are the unbelievable relationships they develop over the course of each session with campers. Our staff have the most fun and are most fulfilled by the relationships created by doing these amazing activities with kids in an upbeat, Christian environment alongside other staff members. As a Ozark staff member, you will meet amazing people and create incredible relationships.