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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Benita Sabharwal - Costa Rica & Nicaragua - 2009I had just finished my psychology degree and I was unemployed, searching for jobs and getting nowhere. Not even recruitment/temp agencies would take me on because I had no experience. I applied to the Raleigh Graduate Bursary Award because I have always wanted to volunteer abroad where I could make a difference... ... more |
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Charlotte Paddock - Harnas Wildlife Foundation, NamibiaI decided to take some time out following my degree, because I knew I would be going on to complete further studies, and really wanted a nice break in between! I couldn’t manage a gap year, but enjoyed the time I spent away... ... more |
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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 |
Graduate Gap Year Advice
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Gap Year Safety: One Student's Experience Taking a gap year or shorter break should be the experience of a lifetime,... more |
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10 Gap Year Safety Tips... more |
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Part of the point of a gap year is to get yourself out of your comfort... more |
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A constructive gap year after uni can be a shrewd career move, as well... more |
