+ Volunteer Work & Gap Years
We'd all like to make money, but sometimes an experience is just worth paying for. You only live once, right?
The hours can be long but who cares when the sun is shining. And once the weather turns it's time to work and party hard in the mountains.
An in demand skill you never knew you had. Any native English speaker with a degree, and the confidence to face a class stands a chance of finding work.
There are many other ways to finance a stay away from home. Other worthwhile options include au pairing and nanny jobs, nursing and house sitting.
Learn a new language or skill and improve your job prospects back home, or even kickstart a career in travel.
We'd all like to make money, but sometimes an experience is just worth paying for. You only live once, right?
On this 4 month program from Premier TEFL you’ll be the best paid TEFL intern in Thailand, earning between 30,000 – 34,000 Thai Baht each month. With accommodation provided you’ll have a hassle free internship and maybe even find it too hard to spend your monthly allowance.
Apply now to take advantage of this perfect opportunity to make a real and lasting impact in the lives of Chilean public school students and in their school communities. Placements are available country-wide and volunteer benefits include a stipend, host family stay, health insurance, and a fee free visa!
Have an adventure working as an assistant teacher in a school in Valencia, Barcelona or another area of Catalonia. As part of this 9 month paid internship package, you’ll get a 120 hour TEFL certificate and a university accredited TEFL course in Spain, a monthly allowance and accommodation with a host family
Don't want to be restricted to one place? This role is perfect for those wanting to ennjoy a location independent lifestyle. Pick your own hours and earn $14-22/hr teaching English online to Chinese kids. Applicants must be from (or eligible to work in) the US or Canada
Arrange your stay with Farms, Homes, Art Retreat Centres, Eco- villages, Backpacker Hostels, Surf Lodges, Vineyards, Ranches, Schools, Monasteries and Kibbutzim. Expose yourself to other cultures, experience another lifestyle, share and learn new skills, all in exchange for a few hours of honest help.
Do you love Big Cats and want to work hands on with them? Then get involved with positive reinforcement training at a safari park near Kanchanaburi. These cats receive only positive attention from volunteers and they respond well - making them the stars of the park!
By offering your time and care for other's pets for free, you can enjoy staying for free in locations worldwide. Whether you're looking for a weekend or a few months, discover how we can help you can enjoy a free retreat... with the added bonus of some four legged friends!
Teach English to Austrian schoolchildren as part of a nonprofit initiative while working towards the Trinity CertTESOL and Cambridge CELT-P qualifications!
The Overseas Job Centre is part of an inter-related group of travel websites and blogs intent on encouraging people to travel for longer. Through our sites we provide suggestions for funding your travels by working abroad, saving money as a volunteer, or enjoying once in a lifetime experiences while on a gap year or career break.
Though we fund our own travels through our websites, to call us a commerical organisation would be a bit of a stretch. We are simply two backpackers that like to share the stuff we find when researching our trips. We are not an employment agency, find it flattering that some people think we have offices in London, Paris and New York and we don't have any brochures.
The OJC is Deirdre Higgins, a veteran of the working week in France, Belgium, Peru, Britain and Ireland, and Shane Donovan who has successfully evaded a real job since leaving school. We work on our websites as we travel and have helped people find paid and volunteer jobs In Australia, France and China while we have been in, among other places, Bolivia, Lebanon or Malaysia.
“An excellent website with jobs and info for gappers.”
“Extensive information on working holidays and jobs abroad for gap year students and the not-yet-seriously-employed (who appear to include the site's authors).”
You don't have to take our recommendations. This site is backed up by a guide to working abroad, along with a directory of useful links for finding and arranging your own jobs abroad. Current vacancies around the world can be found in our Jobs Abroad Bulletin site. For everything else we suggest starting on our main PAYAway website.
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