Gahanna taking applications for summer jobs, including lifeguards

Vincent Piccolantonio worked as a lifeguard at the Gahanna Swimming Pool in 2019. The Gahanna Lincoln High School senior plans to return this summer to work as a pool manager.

Seasonal occupation opportunities, these as being a camp counselor or lifeguard at Gahanna Parks & Recreation, could help start a career.

The town of Gahanna has openings for extra than 100 summer time employment, ranging in fork out from $10 to $15 an hour, for these types of positions as camp counselor, recreation crew member, lifeguard, visitor services, function and paddleboat crew member and concession crew member.

Stephania Bernard-Ferrell, director of parks and recreation, claimed her initially task as a faculty scholar was as a summer time camp counselor.

“I was presented the possibility to learn how to system functions and was inspired to be creative and have pleasurable,” she reported. “I gained my initial-support and CPR certifications as aspect of the task. I figured out time administration, issue fixing and a full good deal of persistence.”

Bernard-Ferrell mentioned she fell in like with the idea that her work was to give not only care but also to generate memorable ordeals for youths all through their summertime crack.

“I am grateful that the ordeals throughout my summer season task directed me to a job that I am certainly passionate about,” she explained.

Brian Gill Huston, Gahanna recreation superintendent, reported summer season alternatives are fantastic résumé builders for pupils and young gurus and assistance build expertise related to their job paths.

“Our crew users are presented occupation-precise schooling for their roles, whether or not you are interested in currently being a summer time working day camp counselor, performing our various group events or as a lifeguard at our swimming pools,” he explained. “Our past staff members have utilized techniques uncovered to come to be teachers, pediatric nurses, intelligence analysts and microbiologists.”

Gill Huston said numerous of the department’s full-time crew appreciated those varieties of careers so significantly that they released their professions.

“I begun as a lifeguard at Wyandot Lake – what is now regarded as Zoombezi Bay here in Columbus,” he mentioned. “After that summer months, I commenced working as a lifeguard at the Recreation and Physical Activity Center while in faculty at Ohio Condition. I was encouraged by supervisors there to look into the sporting activities and recreation fields of scientific studies and recognized that there were being several options in an place I relished to both equally generate a diploma and turn out to be a expert in the area.”

Being part of the Gahanna Parks & Recreation workforce, Gill Huston stated, is a fun way to be a part of the neighborhood, furnishing a enjoyment knowledge and opportunities to check out the city’s gorgeous parks.

Vincent Piccolantonio, a Gahanna Lincoln Significant School senior, options to function as a pool manager this summer until he heads to higher education at the College of Cincinnati.

He started out performing as a lifeguard immediately after his freshman year of large university in 2019.

Piccolantonio has worked as a lifeguard, head guard and, for a few of weeks final summertime, pool manager. He also labored at the department’s particular events, such as the Goblin Trail, Creepside and the Independence Working day celebration.

“I would surely really encourage many others to use,” Piccolantonio mentioned. “It’s been a excellent position during higher university. I have achieved a lot of new people and become good good friends with plenty of them, uncovered a large amount of management skills and had a great deal of enjoyment.”

Bernard-Ferrell claimed filling almost 150 seasonal positions is demanding each individual year.