Staff Web - Application Materials

Thank you for your interest in becoming a member
of our summer staff team! We look forward to receiving
your application. If you have not already done so, please
take a few minutes to browse the website, as we hope it
shares useful information to you about working at Starfish.
You can view a PDF of our staff brochure here.

We accept applications on a rolling basis throughout
the year. The process, however, is fairly competitive. We
therefore recommend sending in an application as soon as
possible, as there are generally very few positions remaining
once the summer gets closer. Our ability to provide the
essential 1:1 staff to camper ratio is a significant part of
what sets our campers up for such success, and due to the
importance of this aspect of our program, Starfish requires
all hired staff to make the full-summer committment.

1. Complete the staff application. You can complete it online and send it in electronically,
download an application to print out and mail/fax, or request that an application packet be
mailed to you.

2. Ask 3 people to complete reference forms for you. Your reference forms should be
completed by people who know you in a professional, leadership, child-care or academic
capacity (coaches, work supervisors, teachers, internship preceptors or clergy are some
examples). References should not be from friends, peers or of solely a social/character nature.
Please have your reference writers mail or fax us the completed reference forms.

3. Have an Interview Once our office has received your application and reference forms,
we will contact you to set up an interview. During the interview, we will ask you a number of
questions about your work experience, your general interests, and how you could foresee
yourself handling a few circumstances that might occur at camp. The interview is also designed
to serve as an information session for you, so please ask us as many questions as you have!

4. Reference & Background Checks After the interview, we will conduct reference and
background checks. We will then contact you to let you know whether or not we are able to
offer you a position at Starfish for the summer. If you are offered a position, we ask you to
decide whether or not you would like to accept the offer within a fairly short time frame -
usually a couple of weeks.

5. Join us at Camp & Make A Difference! If you are offered the position and you accept,
(which of course we hope you will!) we will send you out more information and a few other
forms (most of them are so you can get paid!) to complete. Then you will be set for summer
'07, and you can get excited about the amazing journey ahead - and all the lives that you will
help to change by August.