{"id":31866,"date":"2022-05-18T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=31866"},"modified":"2022-05-18T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:16:32","slug":"summer-camps-on-long-island-are-hiring-and-offering-new-incentives-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/summer-camps-on-long-island-are-hiring-and-offering-new-incentives-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer camps on Long Island are hiring, and offering new incentives for employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Will Pierce, co-owner\/director of Pierce Country Day Camp in Roslyn, leads orientation for his incoming high school and college camp counselors, he\u2019ll tell the new staff members this: \u201cSomebody in this room will probably meet their spouse this summer.\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s only half-kidding \u2014 working at a summer camp is a camaraderie-filled experience that brings together people who may become lifelong friends, and maybe even family, he says. Take Ian and Alix Freed \u2014 they met at Pierce as counselors and now, years later, have a 2-year-old who comes to camp with them. <\/p>\n

Alix started as a counselor at Pierce the summer after her junior year at Paul D. Schreiber High School in Port Washington. \u201cThere\u2019s not many jobs you can do as a 17-year-old that you can be outside all day. You knew you were going swimming; you knew you would be on the soccer field. I had friends there, and we had lunch together. It was fun,\u201d she says. In fact, lunch was where she met her husband when they had both advanced to group counselors, jobs they, as teachers, still hold during the summers. <\/p>\n

Day camp directors and owners on Long Island are touting the benefits of working at camp in an effort to entice more high school and college students to apply for jobs \u2014 with parental demand for day camp strong this summer, camps face the same challenges as other industries in hiring staff, says Alicia Skovera, executive director of the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving, promoting and enhancing the summer camp experience. <\/p>\n

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\n\tHigh school and college students who want to apply for a camp counselor position can call a local camp directly or visit the American Camp Association of New York and New Jersey at acanynj.org\/camp-jobs<\/a> to submit an application that will\u00a0be shared with\u00a0camps\u00a0looking to hire staff. To supervise children, counselors must be at least 16 years old.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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