Travelling abroad for your gap year can be extremely expensive, especially if you are fresh out of college or have not been working for very long. Saving the funds for your gap year trip can require months of hard work. But what if you could travel the world and get paid for it! There are gap year companies who will pay you a wage, allowing you to earn enough to cover the cost of your travel and perhaps extend your stay at the end of your trip. The work experience will also look great on your CV!
We are recruiting abseil instructors and ground crew staff to deliver an 85 metre abseil experience from the Arcelormittal Orbit in the Olympic Park, London. This is well paid, mainly weekend work.
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If you and your friends have a passion for just about any creative pursuit – ranging from music and dance to glass blowing and art – there could be a great job waiting for you this summer.
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Would you like to work as a deckhand, steward, stewardess, engineer or chef on a luxury superyacht?
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Make an enquiry with Galileo Maritime Academy
You will oversee and run every aspect of the Hotel Kitchen. Managing a team of chefs (size dependent on property size), you will take responsibility for ensuring the preparation, delivery and service of food within your property.
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Go with the flow this summer. Spend your summer, having the adventure of a lifetime, as a canoeing or kayaking instructor at one of our camps in Canada. You'll spend every day on the water, instructing groups of children of different age and ability. This is an in-demand job role for camp directors.
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We’ve been running English camps for French children since 1994! With multiple locations across France, American Village Language Immersion Camps welcome thousands of kids each year. Our caring, fun, and professional counselor team is a part of what makes our camp so loved by our campers!
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Qualify as a Level 1 ski instructor in the world-class resort of Whistler and then teach for the rest of the season!
Spend your days on the mountain, earning money and teaching kids to ski. The CSIA Level 1 Ski Instructor training and exam are included. Book now!
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Make an enquiry with Oyster Worldwide Ski
At Ecoventure our goal is to increase environmental awareness and inspire young people though outdoor education.
We are looking to employ enthusiastic people with a passion for outdoor education and the environment who can help us meet this goal.
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Working in the outdoors is an amazing opportunity to escape the 9-5 routine. Try something new today. Have a job you love, make new friends and change children's lives.
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Make an enquiry with In 2 Action
Want to get turn your love of skiing or snowboarding into a career?
Become a ski or snowboard instructor in 2019. Receive world-class training, gain internationally recognised qualifications and get a guaranteed paid job offer at the ski resort of your choice.
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Make an enquiry with EA Ski and Snowboard
If you enjoy working with children, join our team of international staff in Switzerland for an incredibly rewarding experience in a beautiful mountain resort. You will instruct and assist in a programme of outdoor activities, including hiking, mountain biking, climbing, canyoning and orienteering.
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Make an enquiry with Viamonde
SEE's Ministry of Education licensed 4-week onsite TEFL certification program with 6 observed teaching practices in local schools allows new teachers to step into the EFL classroom in any country with an EFL teaching industry and teach effectively and confidently.
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Join the Fit For Sport Delivery Team as an Activity Leader – Child Care Qualified. Childcare NVQ level 2 (minimum) or similar you will support the business with your knowledge and experience of compliance e.g. sign in / sign out, headcounts accident and incident reporting procedures as examples.
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Take part in coaching a range of sports including football, rugby, cricket, netball or swimming. Help and support groups of disadvantaged children around the world. Combine sport with the opportunity to travel and make a difference.
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Make an enquiry with Oyster Worldwide
Canada was made to explore - and there's no better way to see the epic wilderness of Canada than working in an outdoor and adventure specialist role at summer camp. Would you like to spend your entire summer camping, canoeing tripping, climbing, hiking, discovering Canada and more?
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EA Ski & Snowboard are the world's largest provider of ski and snowboard instructor internships.
Turn your love of skiing or snowboarding into a career.
Receive world-class training, gain an internationally recognised qualification and get a guaranteed paid job offer - all in one season.
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Join our 120 hour TESOL course in either Hua Hin or Chiang Mai and gain a teaching job in Thailand. The course includes a fun-filled orientation week before the 120 accredited TESOL course begins.
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Make an enquiry with Oyster Worldwide
Join Fit For Sport’s as an Activity Leader – PE. Reporting to the Site Manager you will responsible for the planning and delivery of curriculum driven Physical Education within our Schools Programme in line with our Fit for Sport guidelines and values.
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Working in housekeeping or the food department in a Canadian hotel is the perfect opportunity to work through summer, exploring a new country and earning money during your stay. With plenty of free time to venture into the surrounding countryside, this role offers a unique opportunity.
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Not only could you be enjoying teaching your sport at camp but you will be having a laugh with people your age, going for nights out and enjoying your days off exploring America.
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If you and your friends have a passion for just about any creative pursuit – ranging from music and dance to glass blowing and art – there could be a great job waiting for you this summer.
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PGL's Housekeeping Assistant roles in France are a good platform to get started in hospitality and fantastic job to enjoy with a team of like-minded people from around the world. First impressions are always important and you can help deliver a positive and lasting first impression for our guests.
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You will be spending your summer months working at a fantastic summer camp in the USA! Wild Packs specialise in finding summer camp jobs (based all over America) for hundreds of young people every year. We look to support enthusiastic individuals who are eager for a challenge!
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Love the great outdoors and have a strong sense of adventure? Want to spend your summer up in the air on camps high ropes, flying through camp on the zipline or working on the climbing tower? Look no further…
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Make an enquiry with Camp America
SEE's paid internship includes pre-arrival and 2 weeks of onsite training before placement in a provincial school for 1 semester. Training is conducted by SEE in Chiang Mai.
There are two intakes each year. These coincide with the start of the Thai academic semesters in April and October.
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Make an enquiry with SEE TEFL
Do you want a career that will take you across the globe? Do you want to live and work in the world's top ski destinations?
Become a ski instructor with EA Ski & Snowboard and fast-track your career in the snow industry. Choose from 26 resorts across five countries.
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As an Outdoor Instructor, you will deliver a range of fun, memorable and tailored adventurous activities, experiences and adventure holidays aimed at families, individuals and groups. Such as snowmobile tours, ice fishing, snowshoeing and cross country skiing.
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Now Recruiting for the season!
CLUB CORREZE is a small family run business based in the beautiful Massif Region, France.
We are looking for an experienced or qualified chef/cook who can lead a small team of non-catering assistants in preparing and serving quality meals for up to 200 stude
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Becoming a PGL Tour Leader is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in French culture and get involved with one of PGL’s most popular school trips – tailor-made French study tours to the wonderful city of Paris.
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Train with professional ski instructors and gain your own qualifications that will allow you to teach in the same season. Following your course, become a snow sports instructor in Canada or Austria and earn money whilst enjoying the season on these fantastic slopes!
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Do you love heights, thrills and have a sense of adventure?
If this sounds like you then you should definitely apply for one of the adventure and outdoor jobs at camp.
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SEE offers a 4-week TEFL certification onsite training program with teaching practices at local schools or a paid TEFL teaching internship for 4-5 months in a Thai provincial town school.
The 4-week training course offers a job guarantee and the internship offers a guaranteed placement.
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Make an enquiry with SEE TEFL
Chose from instructing, hospitality and support roles in one of our Canadian ski resorts. Experience the Aussie Outback or the cosmopolitan city of Sydney or Auckland. We offer the chance to earn money teaching in China or Thailand. Travel, gain experience, get to know the locals & enhance your CV.
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Make an enquiry with Oyster Worldwide
Love splashing around? Every camp will have a large waterfront program and therefore will need competent and skilled instructors to teach in this area.
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We are getting ready for a huge year of adventure, and we would love you to be part of it. If you’re passionate about working in the outdoors, inspiring young people to learn through having fun and helping them to become the best they can be.
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Make an enquiry with Kingswood
The demand for English teachers around the world is astronomical, take China, where there are 350 million students learning the language at any given time. Whether on a gap year or a graduate, we have the course for you. Choose either to join our Teach and Earn programme or our China TEFL programme
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Make an enquiry with Oyster Worldwide
Our Adventure Managers are crucial to the success of our school residential activity sites. Leading a team and ensuring adults and children have the best experience with us will be a key part of the job!
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Make an enquiry with In 2 Action
Working on a farm is a great way to experience life in rural Australia. Starting in the training week and continuing on throughout your employment, learn to ride motorbikes and horses, use machinery such as tractors, and work with livestock. A job is guaranteed after the training course.
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Make an enquiry with Oyster Worldwide
American summer camps offer a huge range of sports for the kids, which creates a big need for Sports Counsellors. Camps will normally have Tennis, Gymnastics, Golf, Soccer, Lacrosse, Volleyball, Baseball, Basketball - plus many more! So if you love sports, then we need you!
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Make an enquiry with Camp America
Walesby Forest is an outdoor activity centre set in over 250 acres of Sherwood Forest, with more than 80 years of heritage and a friendly team at it's core.
We offer young people the opportunity to enjoy more than 30 exciting activities including abseiling, climbing, watersports and quad biking.
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This is your chance to experience a summer in Canada on a whole new level. Camps are currently looking to recruit a variety of different activity specialists to spend a summer working on their camps. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime in the beautiful and authentic Canadian wilderness.
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We are recruiting abseil instructors and ground crew staff to deliver an 85 metre abseil experience from the Arcelormittal Orbit in the Olympic Park, London. This is well paid, mainly weekend work.
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Make an enquiry with Wire & Sky
If spending your entire summer abroad, getting paid to look after and work with ponies and horses, sounds like a dream come true then keep dreaming!
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You will be an integral part of the overseas Hotel Team, ensuring our customers’ expectations are exceeded at every opportunity. Reporting to the Head chef and Assistant/Hotel Managers, you are responsible for the hygiene and safety standards within our Hotels Kitchens.
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Make an enquiry with Ocean Elements
This comprehensive five-day course (minimum age 16) enables candidates to teach beginners up to Seamanship Skills and Spinnaker courses.
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Make an enquiry with Aqua Sports
Working closely with every member of the kitchen team The Chef De Partie (CDP) will be responsible for the smooth running of any of the sections within the Kitchen. Sections may include Prep, Stock and Larder, Starters, Grill and Mains or Desserts.
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Make an enquiry with Alpine Elements
Join modern catering enterprises at PGL's activity centres across the UK. set up to deliver excellence in both service and food, you'll work in a supportive environment and have a fantastic time.
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Love spending time in or around the water? Have experience in a water sport activity? Look no further…
As waterfront staff, you could be involved in a variety of different roles. Water sports can include; Sailing, Water-skiing, Canoeing, Windsurfing, Paddle boarding and more!
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Make an enquiry with Camp America
Outdoor Instructor Trainee Programme
Share Discovery Village based in Co Fermanagh is offering you the opportunity of a lifetime! Apply to become a highly qualified Outdoor Instructor in Ireland’s most prestigious Outdoor Instructor Training Programme.
Training lasts for 12 months.
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Elevate your summer this year in Canada. Summer camps in Canada are looking to recruit camp counsellors for this summer. Being a camp counsellor at a summer camp means every day is an adventure. Whilst making memories and friends that will last a lifetime.
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Make an enquiry with Camp Canada
TEFL International Prague | Language and Training is a reputable training centre located in Prague, Czech Republic. Our TEFL course is externally moderated by TEFL International and accredited by Fairmont State University in Vermont, USA.
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Reporting to the Head Mountain Bike Mechanic you will assist with the overall smooth running of the Mountain Bike program within the French Alps.
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Make an enquiry with Alpine Elements
Are you ready to make summer 2020 the best one yet? Get ready for real fun, real travel and real adventure with the real Camp America. Camp America is your chance to spend nine weeks living and working on an amazing summer camp in the USA.
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Are you a qualified Lifeguard? Want to move your job from the pool to a lake in the USA? Then Camp America is for you!
Spend your summer soaking up the sun with the coolest job on camp. Many of the camps we work with have a picturesque lake or swimming pool which is an amazing way to spend summer!
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Join Fit For Sport’s as an Activity Leader – PE. Reporting to the Site Manager you will responsible for the planning and delivery of curriculum driven Physical Education within our Schools Programme in line with our Fit for Sport guidelines and values.
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If you love nothing more than being active, meeting new people, inspiring others, and spending time in the great outdoors then apply today to join PGL as an Outdoor Activity Instructor in 2020.
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Due to growth in the business Fit For Sport are now seeking to expand our Delivery Team with the addition of a Deputy Site Manager.
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Join Fit For Sport, the UK’s largest Extended School’s and Active Camp provider as an Activity Site Manager.
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Robinwood is looking for fun and outgoing people to work as Group Leaders and deliver great courses to the thousands of primary school children who visit our centres every year. Apply now to become part of our award-winning staff team!
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We are looking for skiers and snowboarders with at least 4 weeks experience to train to become qualified instructors and work the whole length of a winter in a paid instructor job in Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Europe.
Think you've got what it takes? Check if you are eligible below!
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Now Recruiting for the 2019 season!
CLUB CORREZE is a small family run business based in the beautiful Massif Region, France.
We are looking for individuals who have excellent customer service skills and who enjoy working with children.
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Alpine Elements Ltd is a medium sized tour operator specialising in ski and summer beach & alpine activity holidays operating throughout France, Greece and St.Anton, Austria, with their sister company iGO SKi offering short ski breaks.
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This role involves management of a team of Tribe Leaders and Field Cook, as well as the day-to-day responsibilities of running an inspiring residential camp, you will be looking after your camp through facilitating activities for students during their stay with us.
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Make an enquiry with The Bushcraft Company
With our hugely popular Camp and Extended Schools programmes growing in the number of locations and attendance figures, Fit For Sport are seeking to expand our Delivery Team with the addition of Activity Assistants.
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Alpine Elements Ltd is a medium sized tour operator specialising in ski and summer beach & alpine activity holidays operating throughout France, Greece and St. Anton, Austria, with their sister company iGO SKi offering short ski breaks.
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Make an enquiry with Alpine Elements
Work experience internships are becoming more and more popular as an alternative to your standard gap year adventure. Companies offer a wide variety of opportunities in industry, whether it's working as an office junior in Tokyo or a diving instructor in the Maldives, you should be able to find an opportunity to suit you. Even if your overseas internship is unpaid, the skills you'll develop will be invaluable and regarded highly by universities and future employers.
Of course its not all work, you'll still have time to travel and see the sites like any other gap year traveller would do, however you'll get the opportunity to really experience a country and its culture by integrating yourself into the daily lives of the working community.
Paid and voluntary work experience internships will give you a great head start in your working life and they will help prepare you for life away from school or college. That's why an increasing number of employers and universities are looking for applicants with some form of work experience or internship, so by adding this to your CV, you'll be giving yourself the best chance of standing out from the crowd.
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