---
title: "Skills & Hobbies (Camp SWT)"
slug: skills-hobbies-taxonomy
section: Applicant Journey
status: stable
description: "The authoritative Skills & Hobbies V5.0 list for the Camp Summer Work & Travel program: length categories, skills, and the selection rules an applicant follows during the Phase 1 “Skills & Hobbies” intake step."
last-updated: 2026-10-07
---

# Skills & Hobbies (Camp SWT)

The authoritative Skills & Hobbies V5.0 list for the Camp Summer Work & Travel program: length categories, skills, and the selection rules an applicant follows during the Phase 1 “Skills & Hobbies” intake step.

> **Program scope — Camp Summer Work & Travel only**
>
> This taxonomy applies only to the Camp Summer Work & Travel (Camp SWT) program. It does not apply to Camp Counselor, Teach USA, Intern/Trainee, or any other program. Those programs carry their own, separate skill taxonomies and must not reuse this list.

## Program Scope

Camp SWT applicants place into camp support roles (kitchen, maintenance, housekeeping, office, retail) rather than camper-facing counselor roles. The skill categories below reflect that operational reality and are surfaced to the applicant during the Phase 1 (Application) “Skills & Hobbies” step. This page is the documented source of truth for that list; it is documentation only and does not define any selection UI, validation logic, or matching-engine scoring behavior.

## Selection Requirements

When completing the Skills & Hobbies step, a Camp SWT applicant must satisfy both of the following:

Skills

3–5 skills required

Selected from the skills across the length categories below.

Hobbies

2-6 hobbies required

Captured alongside skills on the same Phase 1 step.

Free-text word minimum

Every free-text answer that is filled in must contain at least 20 words: each selected skill's Experience Description and the Hobbies Reflection. Hobbies themselves carry no per-entry word minimum, and the V5 step has no My Experience with Children box (that box exists only in the V4 Camp Counselor variant). The rule lives in the shared Skills & Hobbies schema, so it is the same bound the Camp Counselor step enforces.

## Categories & Skills

The complete V5.0 taxonomy — length categories, skills. Skills are listed exactly as they appear in the source list.

## Cross-References

- Applicant Lifecycle — Phase 1 (Application) — the “Skills & Hobbies” step that collects these selections.
- Matching Engine — Program-Specific Weight Profiles — how the SWT-Camp profile weights the Skills dimension during matching.