Graduate Gap Year Jobs
The decision to completely uproot yourself for a work placement or a gap year abroad can lead to a challenging and life-changing experience.
Many students want to experience the independence and freedom it will give them. Others may want to develop work skills in an exciting new environment. Some simply want an impressive talking point for interviews and their CV.
Whatever your motive, when planning work experience or a gap year you must always consider what will be most beneficial for you. It might be more useful to your future career to pick up business skills and commercial awareness in a three-month internship in the UK thanto spend four weeks shovelling elephant dung in Tanzania…although dung-shovelling is not without its career benefits!
Graduate Gap Year Employers
| TravelWorks | TravelWorks offers a myriad of volunteer and paid work opportuniti... | more |
| BUNAC | BUNAC’s overseas work and volunteer programmes offer adventu... | more |
| Camp America | It's a chance to do something different with your summer and spend... | more |
| Community Service Volunteers - CSV | Community Service Volunteers (CSV) was founded in 1962 by Mora and... | more |
| Traveller's World | "Traveller's World" - the first guide to bring together travel, to... | more |
Graduate Gap Year Case Studies
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Julia Sloboda - TravelWorksI spent eight weeks in various national parks across Costa Rica as part of a TravelWorks gap year. Costa Rica: the best thing I have ever done in my life! I worked a total of eight weeks in various national parks - searching for turtle nests in the night, digging out eggs and burying them again in a safer place, bringing hatched turtle babies down to sea ... more |
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(Unusual) Job of the Week 3After graduating from University I had always planned to take some time out and travel. However, when I found out I could use my skills and work abroad for a UK based company I decided that this would be the best way to see and experience life in other countries and get paid whilst doing it. ... more |
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David Bowker - gap year - BUNACI really wanted a break from my studies as I knew that if I went to university straight after college the same cycle of constant exams and work would continue. ... more |
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Dan Casey - TEFL - PragueI travel around Prague, going to various companies to teach business people English. Most people here need to improve their language skills to improve their career prospects, so in-company language classes are a common job incentive. ... more |
Graduate Gap Year Advice
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Think Before You Click - The Negative Side of Facebook The next time you’re about to upload pictures of your birthday party/night... more |
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These days the world really is your oyster if you want to take a gap year... more |
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If you would rather be doing something physically demanding and exhilarating... more |
