Explore America. Go with the Leaders.
Camp Leaders recruit young people to work at summer camps all across the United States, matching participants to camps by skills and staffing needs.
- Founded
- 1999
- Category
- Cultural exchange
- Region
- United States
- Audience
- International applicants seeking a summer working at a US summer camp.
Origin
It started with one camp counselor coming home.
Camp Leaders was founded in 1999 from a small bedroom in Liverpool, when Chris Arnold returned home from a life-changing summer at a US camp and decided to make it easier for the next person to do the same. From a single placement, it became a movement.
Why Camp Leaders
Follow the Leaders.
Leaders in name and leaders in the industry. Camp Leaders have disrupted and innovated since day one, the first in the industry to launch online, the first to go mobile, the first to put the customer first.
Deep expertise
Decades of placement experience and a team built largely of program alumni. Camp Leaders knows both sides, the participant journey and what camp directors need on day one.
Purpose-built technology
Postcard, our purpose-built CRM, powers everything from online hiring fairs and automated interview booking to digital contracts and direct messaging. Features the industry adopted years after we shipped them.
On-the-ground in 17 countries
Real teams in 17 international offices means real local support. Visa briefings, in-person interviews, and someone who picks up the phone wherever participants are applying from.
“We have hired Camp Leaders staff from 10+ countries, and time after time, the candidates have been well vetted and prepared for the experience of working at camp in the US.”
Today
25 years in, still the brand camps trust most.
Camp Leaders has placed over 100,000 international staff since 1999 and was named Best Customer Service at the British Youth Travel Awards two years running. Now operating as part of an employee-owned group, the focus is the same as it was at the start. Getting the right people to the right camps, one summer at a time.
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