FAQ
Application
- We ask all those who are currently serving full-time missions to uphold the Lord’s admonition in the Doctrine and Covenants to "serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day” (D&C 4:2, 4).
- Missionaries may apply and participate in an interview, with approval of their mission president.
- Completing an application does not guarantee that applicants will have the opportunity to interview for a position.
- Once positions are filled, we will be unable to consider additional applicants.
- Missionaries can complete any interviews through Zoom while serving with permission from their mission president.
If you have forgotten your password, please contact BYU’s Office of Information Technology at 801-422-4000.
Note: If you have worked for EFY or been associated with BYU in previous years, you already have a Net ID. Do not create a new Net ID.
If your availability changes after you have already completed the Hirevue, please send an email to expeditionshiring@byu.edu and let us know of those changes.
Applicants applying for a leadership position will only need to apply to the one leadership application. If an individual would like to be considered for leadership and for a counselor role, they will need to apply to both the leadership application and the counselor application.
BYU Expeditions does consider preferences or requests when assigning contract to work, however our number one priority when assigning staff is the locations where they are most needed. BYU Expeditions will not assign a contract if you have indicated that you are not available during a specified week. Please make sure that you consistently update your availability on your application.
- After submitting an application, individuals will be selected to participate in a Hirevue interview. This generally will come no later than two weeks after submitting the application. Please add interviews@hirevue.com to your email contact list to ensure that you receive the HireVue interview invitation. Be sure to check your spam and junk mail folders frequently.
- After a Hirevue is completed, those chosen to move forward in the application process will hear back from the office no later than two weeks after the Hirevue has been completed.
- Coordinators and Lead Counselors can expect to have a final decision around December. Health Coordinator, Session Directors, and Counselors can expect to have a final decision around March.
- If you have any questions regarding where you are at in the process, contact us at expeditionshiring@byu.edu.
Interviews
- If an applicant is selected after the initial aplication has been submitted, an email should be sent within 2 weeks, inviting him or her to complete an online video interview.
- The applicant will be asked to record answers to interview questions. Please remember that a video interview is considered an interview, and it is the first time the BYU Expeditions Hiring committee will evaluate you. Please dress and respond as you would in an in-person interview.
- The online interview must be completed within one week. An exception will be made for missionaries currently serving who only have access on a p-day. If an applicant does not complete the interview within a week, he or she may not be considered for the position.
- After the video interview is submitted, it will be watched by the BYU Expeditions Hiring committee.
- If the applicant receives a high enough rating on the video interview, he or she will be invited for an in-person interview via email.
- Once invited via email, respond to the email to schedule an interview.
- Like the HireVue interview, applicants only need to complete one in-person interview regardless of how many positions they have applied for. Individuals who are applying for both a Leadership position and Counselor position will complete one combined in-person interview.
- Any rescheduling of interviews must be made at least one business day before the original interview date. In order to make changes, please contact the BYU Expeditions Hiring office at expeditionshiring@byu.edu.
- Most interviews last 30-60 minutes.
- There may be multiple applicants with you in your interview.
Bring your scriptures (either physical or on a mobile device), and dress appropriately for a job interview.
- Coordinators and Lead Counselors can expect to have a final decision around December. Health Coordinator, Session Directors, and Counselors can expect to have a final decision around March.
- If you have any questions regarding where you are at in the process, contact us at expeditionshiring@byu.edu.
Contracts
Once you have completed an offer letter through Workday, you will receive an email from expeditionshiring@byu.edu with your schedule for the summer, including the assigned sessions you will be working. It will be your responsibility to respond to the email to either accept or decline what has been offered.
If you are offered an on-call contract for a session, it means we would like to hire you, but the counselor quota for that session is currently full. If a counselor position opens up in that session, a contract may be offered to you. Upon your agreement to work, your status for that session will change from conditional or on-call to Authorized to Work without further action on your part. We anticipate that many applicants who accept on-call contracts will have an opportunity to work.
Please update your Availability by emailing expeditionshiring@byu.edu. All assignments are made based on the weeks in which you have indicated that you are available to work.
- Declining a contract means that you are offered a contract and you decline it from the onset. Dropping a contract means that you originally accepted a contract, but later dropped it. Neither of these options will be necessary if you keep your availability updated.
- If you received a contract (before updating your availability) that you are no longer able to work, please immediately email the BYU Expeditions Hiring Office to decline or drop the contract.
- If you have to decline or drop a contract because you received a contract for a week in which you cannot travel out of state, etc., please email the BYU Expeditions Hiring and let us know about your particular situation.
- Staff who decline or drop contract assignments in the state of Utah risk losing out-of-state assignments; any costs associated with flights booked for out-of-state sessions would become the responsibility of the staff member.
- Remember: If you decline or drop a contract within two weeks of the beginning of the session, you may be subject to a $50 fee.