What is the hiring process like at The Y (YMCA)?

It's good experience, the hiring process is similar to other career-type jobs

I don't have anything to say right now

Some benefits but the pay is not good

Rigorous hiring process for a very mediocre job with no room for advancement.

Flexible schedule, easy interview process, friendly staff

Pay, short hours, short staffed

Simple straightforward work, being social and building trust with members, supporting clients in their fitness goals, filling in for front desk, walking around to ensure safety and cleanliness. Overall a laidback low-stress job, but can be tiring walking around a lot. It helps to manage your energy and make the most of breaks and your office space to unwind. Free gym membership is a huge plus! The starting pay is acceptable for the role but there's a lot of trainings (work at home) and opportunities for growth, transferring (becoming a personal trainer) and certifications. The referral bonus is a nice motivator. Most members and clients are very friendly to interact with at the Y.

Interview and onboarding process went on for much longer than anticipated. You'll most likely get unideal hours starting out, from just around 10-15 hours most likely early morning shifts and weekends. Management can take a while to communicate with you in the hiring process since they are very busy unless you keep contacting them. Technical issues on their sites can be a pain to an already strung out waiting game. Members can be rude or uncooperative when enforcing rules like athletic shoes and age thresholds.

access to facilities, decent hours

hiring process, some of the staff

Most frontline staff are really mission driven.

Corporate senior leadership is really bad. They don’t have a fair hiring process.

in my opinion the facilities are very modern and good and clean. there is wifi and cell service--even in your cabin (there was a router inside my cabin). there are laundry facilities, multiple washing and drying machines, but you have to bring your own detergent. there is a snack bar for you to store food (don't store food in your cabin because there are mice, at least there were in mine) and also where there are some snacks for staff to eat such as leftovers from the meals or cereal or instant noodles etc. there is a place called ad hall which has a tv, a bunch of couches, a pool table, a fireplace and a bunch of cool vhs tapes so you can hook up your laptop to the tv and watch movies and hang out ie. a cool rustic place to be hanging out with other staff. you get a nice view of the mountains and the water. you can definitely take the bus into town, the bus service (bctransit) is good, maybe a bus every 1 or 2 hours (get a schedule or search it up), it's $2 and you can take the bus to sechelt, gibsons, etc on your days off the people are definitely very nice, lots of people were kind and friendly to me. it's definitely quite a social setting, group living, less privacy because of the nature of group living. as for working in the kitchen the teammates are great, multicultural team too, and the boss this year is chill. i felt like i didn't have much to do sometimes but that's supposedly only because it's not summer yet--in summer they say it gets very busy, but not so much in april and may, which is when you can focus on learning and getting ready for the summer i guess

the hiring process was not so great. i was in contact with this one hr person who would take many days to respond to emails and i had a lot of questions, i didn't even know when i was supposed to get there, so it was confusing. so maybe write all your questions out at once

There are some incredible things at this YMCA. Sheridan really is an amazing community, and that was one of my favorite things about working there was seeing and interacting with the community there every day. The kids are great kids. The facilities here are really great, there has been tons of funding there. With an actual well hired leadership team there it could be an amazing place.

These are current cons, and very changeable cons. Many of these could easily change with different leadership. Main Campus: The portion of your onboarding handled by YMCA national will be smooth and streamlined. Everything else is a mess; be prepared to have to chase down legally required certs like child abuse prevention on your own. The system their computers run on for employees is trash and causes way too many daily problems and headaches for every staff member. There is no safety protocol or training for missing kids, so if you're used to the professionalism of code Adam, code pink, or even just having a priority search zone for your department in case of a lost kid? You won't find any of that here. Same with team or staff debriefs. Trying to get anything done that requires working with another department takes an act of god. I have never been somewhere with such slow, unmotivated bureaucracy. It will take other departments three weeks to make a simple phone call, and if you're waiting on more than one department, you'll be delayed months. The number of times I've had people tell me "don't worry, it's always a mess when we do something new, it's just the way things are" is crazy. Resident Camp: is an open site; strangers and anyone from the public can walk through at any time, day or night, no background check, no questions asked. There is no additional policy in place to protect kids. They still play night games. There is no mandated reporting policy on the books at camp or training. Leadership (directors and above) needs to be cleaned out or it's never going to get better. Real effort needs to be put into their hiring process. They need a professional to step in and consult this process as well as implementing new hire protocols and training for staff. I have middle-of-the-road camp experience, think leading out trips level programming, and I was the person in the room with the most camp experience, including the director. Be prepared for a weirdly catty environment, several leaders that openly talk about hating kids, and a team with such fragile egos that using words like "unsafe" is considered harsh and unprofessional. Good luck explaining why something won't work in a rescue plan for the climbing wall without using that word. Also, if something doesn't fall within the leadership clique's personal interests, be prepared to be in the middle of a weirdly adversarial relationship between upper leadership and the community. The Sheridan community fundraised for climbing amenities. The leadership doesn't know anything about climbing and is not happy about it being at the YMCA. They will delay projects, openly talk about wishing we didn't have it, and refuse to staff it. It looks like there has been some misused grant money, particularly for climbing. Think HR is going to be helpful in navigating everything I said above? Absolutely not. Going to HR with concerns is apparently unprofessional. You know what else is unprofessional? Going up the chain of command, apparently. There is genuinely no way that YMCA leadership will find acceptable to report harassment, abuse, or safety concerns. If you refuse to drop the issue, they absolutely will fire you and won't even pretend it's for a different reason. The pay is not what it should be and the health insurance is really expensive for the coverage. You'll be better off buying your own marketplace plan.

Experience working with kids, Hiring process is easy Group Interview

Part time Low pay Some Site Supervisor talk *** about you and laugh when you walk in the door very unprofessional

Super welcoming work place! Loved the fellow employees and employers! Loved working there! Very fufilling!

The interview process was frustrating due to the lack of communication from the recruiter, who did not respond to her emails.