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Travis Allison

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I have 2 thoughts:

1) one of my favourite firings ever: A staff member who said to my director (I was 2IC that summer) “but that’s not in my job description”. Clearly, he wasn’t cut out for camp.

2) We gave up on interviews.
Instead we ran 2 staff program days in the city (Toronto is central for our staff) in January and February. Staff within 3 hours drive were required to be at one of the two of them.
We would run adventure programming activities for a day and that way get to observe people in a more natural situation (see who leads, who lets others lead, what activities they are comfortable in, etc).
The thing with interviews is that scam-my people can potentially do much better than those quiet all-stars who you know are AMAZING with kids but for whom interviews are the worst thing in the world.

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Travis Allison

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