Work and Travel

Those who already have balance in their blood and have often swung the serving tray at home in the summer to earn a few extra euros have a good chance of finding a work and travel job in the catering trade abroad! A very nutritious soil for Work and Traveller is provided by the tourism sector. Hostels, hotels, resorts, theme parks, ski resorts or tour operators. Babysitting, teaching English, summer camps - if you like to work with children and maybe even need some experience hours for your studies, you can also find childcare in the Work and Travel Travel Travel sector.

"Financing your travel through backpacker jobs" - sounds exciting, it is! Sounds easy, but honestly it is not quite! In order to finance your dream route or to get board and lodging, you often have to work for many hours. Even if fruit picking on a farm, hotel work or maybe even working with animals sounds great, the jobs are not always easy. Work remains work - sometimes it is physically demanding, sometimes it is boring or the employer is demanding: But in the end you should not forget that it is your individual journey! If you do not like the job, you change. Many Work and Travel jobs may not always meet your expectations, but you weigh up what is pleasant and acceptable for you. After all, you should make your Work and Travel stay as enjoyable as possible!

For most Work and Travel programs, the Working Holiday Visa is the elective visa. This applies to backpacking in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and China. For a summer Work and Travel trip to the USA you need to apply for a J1 visa, which is valid for 4 months. For all other visas the same regulations apply: young travellers from 18 to 30 years of age are granted a stay abroad of up to one year. The special thing about it is that you can accept short-term paid jobs, which - as in Australia - are limited to 6 months. The application for the Working Holiday Visa is mostly very easy and can even be done online. So the first thing to do when planning your Work and Travel Visa is to check the conditions for the respective country!

"For up to 1 year you live a completely new lifestyle and discover a new world, but also a new feeling of independence and freedom within you.

Does it make sense to get the help of an organization to do this? One of the first and very important questions when planning a Work and Travel trip. A good self-assessment is required here: Do you have enough patience to find out about insurance, bank account, and first hostels on-site? Is the fear of having forgotten something predominant and do you prefer to delegate administrative tasks to others? Are you prepared if things don't work out as you planned abroad? It is a fact that with an organization, a large amount of administrative work is taken off your hands - for a fee - and more security is provided that everything will go smoothly. For all those who find themselves somewhere between pros and cons, the starter packages offer a good alternative. They make the first days abroad easier, but leave you with complete freedom for most of the journey. So: Yes, you can also organize it yourself, if you want to - considering the huge administrative effort!

The name says it all: a working holiday where - yes - you have to work unless you are traveling like a millionaire. However, Work and Travel are much more than just hopping between casual jobs: for up to 12 months you live a completely new lifestyle and discover a new world, but also a new feeling of independence and freedom within you. Doors are open for you which remain closed to you as a normal tourist. You will get to know a new working culture, meet people from different backgrounds, hear stories from all over the world, and can decide for yourself how to continue on your journey.

"Many Work and Travel jobs are seasonal or limited. Rough planning is therefore urgently needed."

You can expect an intense experience, with all the ups and downs that life has to offer. However, this also means that you don't always have rosy times ahead of you - especially if you are dependent on well-paid backpacker jobs. Anyone who throws themselves "at good luck" into looking for jobs abroad can also fall on their face. After all, many of these jobs depend on the season or have limited availability. Rough planning is therefore urgently required. There should also be a plan B available in case you don't get the job you want. Conclusion: You can expect the ultimate experience! That you have unlimited work at your disposal, but not.

As a volunteer, you will help during volunteer work in different organizations. Very popular in the field of volunteer work is social work with children.

Do you want to be able to speak a language fluently? Choose a language course, because there you have the opportunity to improve your language skills.

Work experience is important to you? An internship abroad gives you the opportunity to gain international work experience. (It is important that you observe the specified requirements for an internship in the respective target countries).