Summer Camp Employment Builds Leadership Skills in Young Adults

 More and more college students these days are discovering that employment with teen summer camps is a great way to strengthen leadership skills. Summer camp counselors learn how to earn and command respect without demanding it as well as how to lead and work with others inside and outside their generation. Being a camp counselor is a great way for young adults to put leadership learning into effect.

Today’s schools, especially colleges, across the country are putting increasingly more emphasis on teaching leadership as its own individual field of study. College students are finding that many degree fields from communications to engineering require a general education requirement consisting of classes such as Organizational Leadership Studies, International Leadership Communication, and the like. As many schools provide leadership education, practical real-life application is also highly encouraged.

At SuperCamp’s academic summer camps for kids and teens, camp counselors, called “Team Leaders,” are taught applicable leadership skills in a high-energy, fast-paced environment by educators highly trained in accelerated learning methods. Team Leaders are taught how to work with their peers as well as students age 11-19, and facilitate their immediate growth through 10 days of fun and enriching academic and life skills activities.

“My son discovered himself,” says Charlie Caspari, whose son was a SuperCamp Team Leader. “Camp counselors have a tremendous amount of responsibility equal to that of a parent. They are on the job basically 24/7. They have to learn how to deal with stress, [and] they have to make sure their students are ready and on time for various activities. They have to get them to sleep at night, and they have to learn how to work with all types of people and make the best of any situation. These skills are highly transferable; they’re the kind of skills companies look for in people.”

Despite the economic recession, summer camp enrollments remain steady across the country and the opportunity to work for a summer camp remains promising. One of the greatest benefits of being part of SuperCamp’s summer camp staff is that young adults receive a steady salary pay, which they do not have the opportunity to spend immediately when in session. As room and board are provided for, counselors can easily save money and be able to go home at the end of the summer knowing they’re bank accounts are comfortably in the black. Parents still want to give their kids the benefits of a camp experience as well, which includes learning to be independent, making new friends, networking, resume building, and accepting more responsibility.
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