Season Workers - seasonal jobs, courses & gap years
Multi award winning Season Workers covers all aspects of working travel and seasonal recruitment. Processing over 8000 applications each month and with over 200,000 visitors and 2 million page views per month Season Workers is certainly one of, but more probably the busiest site of its kind in the UK. Summer jobs, ski resort jobs and ski instructor courses, teaching English and gap year projects are exciting ways to experience more in life. You can now search the UK for seasonal and holiday jobs as well. Search and apply online using the tabs above or try the help guide, messageboard and destination guides for extra info, each section has an A-Z of companies. This is your website so any suggestions to make it better for you are very much appreciated.
The ski season in Europe runs roughly from December to April. The larger ski season employers will be recruiting from mid May for season 2008/09; best to get in quick. Many smaller ski season chalet owners and operators recruit right here on Season Workers as well. These jobs are highly prized so make sure you join the Season Workers email newsletter or keep checking back. Bar work is tough to get but if you are a qualified childcarer or chef the Alps are your oyster. Ski companies advertising on Season Workers recruit bar staff, chalet staff, ski guides, cooks, chefs, maintenance people, managers and ski resort hotel staff to work in the French Alps and elsewhere. There are some ski companies that recruit ski staff all year round, and we do list jobs and courses outside Europe for the very hopeful! Click click here to search all ski resort jobs!
There are recognised ski and snowboard qualifications and courses on offer from a wide variety of training organisations that will suit budding ski and snowboarding instructors, or people who want to dramatically improve in their chosen sport. Courses generally run from 5 days for a basic qualification or a short period of intensive coaching, or up to 3 months for more comprehensive requirements and snow-sports based GAP years. Most British operators have large European programmes (notably Switzerland), and gap year options further afield in the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. If you are keen to get started but have some reservations read the stupid questions we asked some leading ski and snowboard instructor training companies.
There are lots of seasonal let companies that will rent you an apartment or chalet for the whole season in a ski resort. This might fill your head with images cramped apartments full of sweaty boots, improvised ash trays and a kitchen full of washing up but some specialist organisations rent out decent accommodation at a fair price for the whole season and many people go each year to spend a few months on the slopes. Have a look at the ski season apartments and chalet lets page.
For Summer jobs abroad try this section. Cosmos are now recruiting reps to work in the Canaries, full training is provided, click here for details. Other work with the many firms advertising with Season Workers includes Entertainers, camping or children's couriers in Europe, overland tour guides, USA summer camp counsellors, hotels and restaurant staff, and positions in educational and outdoor sports centres. Summer tour operators are looking for staff for the 2008 summer season from beauty therapists to barge chefs - got to better than the UK! Click here to search now.
Tip: Try Siblu Holidays to work a summer in Italy, France or Spain
Tip: Try Mark Warner for Summer jobs in Greece and Egypt
As you all know, Season Workers is not just “4” students! and the new UK section is no different. The UK section of Season Workers covers holiday work, festival passes, and jobs to fill a gap if you find yourself in a new town. Returning overseas staff looking for something to keep them going between seasons or to pay the bills while working out what to do will find plenty of ideas here. Ever thought about working on one of the Channel Islands - click here for jobs on Guernsey.
What’s on your must-do list? As well as sunbathing and slinking around in a safari-style cork hat, you’ll need to earn your keep. On Season Workers you’ll find dozens of opportunities, paid and otherwise, that will take you to the furthest corners of the globe. Will you teach football to Brazilian kids, build an orangutan sanctuary, clean beaches in Costa Rica or run kids’ camps in America? Use this section or our sister website iGapyear.com to find out more.
Madagascar anyone? In the idyllic village of Andavdoaka, Blue Ventures volunteers work to contribute to the sustainable management of the region’s coastal resources. From the team’s basecamp on the edge of the village, volunteers use SCUBA-based research techniques to catalogue and monitor the areas’ uncharted coral reefs and coastal ecosystems. Working alongside an international group of coral reef ecologists and social scientists, volunteers receive intensive training in a variety of disciplines. In addition to PADI advanced SCUBA certification, volunteers are introduced to species identification, marine research methods and coastal ecology.
Choose the European Lakes, jobs on the Med and Atlantic, or even go diving on the great barrier reef. The United Kingdom hosts over a thousand outdoor centres and field study facilities, many of which operate all year round. You could choose to follow your chosen sport to its roots via an organised course, or work for a company such as PGL in a French centre. Some companies operate systems where you can attain certificates in outdoor pursuits while you are working. Tour operators also employ a wide range of outdoor sports personnel.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Tefl) is a truly great way to live and work abroad and can often lead to a fulfilling and challenging career or year out. It allows you to really get to know a country; its people, culture and language, in a way that other forms of travelling rarely do. It is still an expanding industry and allows you to find a job in most areas of the world, but undoubtedly the best way to increase your chances of employment is to become tefl qualified via one of the courses on offer.
There are numerous opportunities and types of teaching English abroad. The fist step is to get Tefl/Qualified. In a more and more competitive market this qualification is becoming vital. The standard full time Tefl or Celta certificate will usually require a course that lasts up to a month. These intensive courses will give you everything you need in terms of classroom management, grammar, phonetics, lesson planning etc. to handle yourself as a teacher, and a vital in the eyes of most employers. These courses are available at centres both in Britain and Ireland and many countries abroad.