We've registered with Workatkoa.com. We paid an annual fee (about $50, I think). On that site we have our resume available for KOA owners to view and we can also see all the available jobs posted by KOA's around the country.
KOA's also post their jobs on other workamping sites, which is how we found our first job in New Mexico, but the selection of jobs is much greater on the KOA site.
It's like Match.com for workampers.
If we see a job we're interested in, we can click a couple buttons and send our resume to them and vice versa.
If you successfully complete an assignment at a KOA the owner can give you a service star. Apparently these are a big deal (we have one from our New Mexico job) because I think there can be issues with workampers not staying for the full amount of time that they agreed to initially.
Seems like KOA owners are eager to get their summer crews filled. Since the first of the year, we have gotten phone calls or email inquiries from about half a dozen KOAs including one north of Chicago, Devil's Tower Wyoming, Abilene Texas and somewhere in Nebraska.
We declined all of those, though we were tempted by Devil's Tower. Maybe next year.
We had been waiting to decide where to go next because Chris will be leading tours in DC during the spring and we had hoped the tour company would pay for our site during that time. But, we haven't heard from them and then we realized Chris could fly in for his tours from wherever we happened to be staying.
This realization makes our options much greater, particularly next year when we won't feel the need to return to the eastern US for the spring.
Anyway...in addition to the places listed above, we had one other KOA contact us about a job for this spring and summer.
Come back next time to find out where we'll be.
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