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Gap Year Jobs
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How do I get a gap year job?
Real Gap offers loads of opportunities for gap year jobs. Our priority is ensuring you receive the best possible gap year job offers, both in terms of meeting your stated interests and your skills.
If you're aged between 18 and 30 you qualify for a working holiday visa for both Australia and New Zealand. Real Gap will arrange the visas for you, sort out all the necessary tax papers and bank accounts and help out with finding those gap year jobs abroad. Australia is our most popular destination for paid work abroad.
There are all sorts of gap year jobs available, from office work in Sydney to getting your hands dirty outdoors on a ranch in the sunshine of the Aussie outback.
Outside of Australia and New Zealand there are plenty of other opportunities for gap year jobs abroad.
Teaching English abroad is a widely available gap year job in many parts of the world and is a great way to earn some decent money in countries like China and Japan.
The USA and Canada also have numerous opportunities for gap year jobs.
Real Gap's most popular gap year jobs programme for the USA is the Paid Student Summer Jobs. This particular gap year jobs programme is exclusive to University students who are looking for summer jobs abroad in America.
This gap year jobs programme operates only during the UK and USA summer, so students who apply don't even have to take a full gap year off - but simply fit their gap year job in to their long summer vacation. There are all kinds of different gap year jobs available throughout the USA under this programme. Once participants on the USA Student Summer Programme have finished their gap year jobs, with the money they've saved they are then free to travel the USA for a number of weeks before returning home.
If you're not a student and would like to take a gap year job in the USA you're not necessarily excluded from taking a gap year job in the USA either. There are other gap year jobs programmes in the USA for non-students, (see Real Gap's USA page for full details on all of the various gap year jobs programmes we operate in the USA).
The main restriction with gap year jobs in Canada is that you can only take a gap year job there if you're aged 18-30. The good news with gap year jobs in Canada, however, is that you can work for a full 12 months and - as with our USA gap year job programme - we can guarantee you a confirmed gap year job offer before you depart for Canada.
Again, as with our USA and Australia gap year jobs programmes, there is a wide variety of work available in Canada.
There are some fantastic ski resorts in Canada, so Canada is a particularly popular gap year jobs destination for anyone who is a keen skier or snowboarder. Taking a gap year job in one of Canada's ski resorts means there is plenty of opportunity for you to make good use of all that snow on your days off.
Gap year jobs aren't necessarily always just about earning some money. If you'd like to do something worthwhile on your gap year there's also a wide variety of gap year jobs for volunteers available throughout the globe. For example there are numerous gap year jobs available for volunteers who want to get involved with environmental and wildlife conservation in Africa, Latin America, Australia and Asia.
If you'd prefer to take a gap year job on a voluntary basis working with disadvantaged people or communities, then there are also plenty of gap year jobs available in this field too in many parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The great thing about taking a gap year job on a voluntary basis is that you come away from the end of whatever gap year job you've done having gained a real sense of personal achievement. When you work on these types of volunteer gap year jobs you generally gain a much better and closer understanding of the particular country you're working in and the communities that live there - much more so than you would as a ‘normal' backpacker who's just passing through.
Whatever type of gap year job you're looking for, Real Gap is almost certain to have a gap year jobs programme that suits your needs. If you can't find what you're looking for on our website, or want some more specific details on any of our gap year jobs programmes, simply call one of Real Gap's expert travel advisors.
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