As I mentioned a few weeks ago I’m updating the directory pages of the Overseas Job Centre. Currently I am working on the Sea & Sky section where we list useful links for finding cruise ship jobs, airline positions and where to find private yachts looking for crew.
I’m not ready to add new links to the directory yet – I’m just weeding out dud links and tidying up at the moment – but am adding a few of the interesting things I stumble across to our Facebook page.
We have launched two new sites – Taking a Gap Year and Taking a Career Break.
For both sites we have selected a range of gap year programmes, career breaks and volunteer work projects to suit all budgets and interests. Keeping words to a minimum we have displayed our selections pictorially and included projects with wildlife and the environment, with people and communities and also suggest a variety of CV or life enhancing internships and courses to study.
Now would be a good time to head over to our facebook page if you are interested in a tourism job abroad this summer. I’m currently updating the directory pages over at the Overseas Job Centre. At the moment I am working on the Tourism, Catering & Hospitality Jobs section and adding anything of interest to our fb page.
So far I’ve added information on working for Club Med, at Glacier National Park in the States, and a job as a resort entertainer in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. There is also some information there on working a ski season with Esprit Holidays, Inghams and Ski Total. Between them they will soon be looking for 1200 seasonal staff based in 82 resorts across 12 countries. Applications will be opened at the end of April.
This month is dedicated to our adopted homeland, Turkey.
Last year, when looking to trade some of our advertising space for accommodation with a Turkish hotel, we were told by a hotelier that not a great deal of The Working Traveller is about Turkey. Looking through our old posts at the time we realised he was right.
I have written and had accepted a couple of guest posts in the past week or so. The first, 11 Cheap Places to Volunteer in South America, is a long promised follow up to a similar post I did a while back on Central America.
The South American piece covers all the countries in South America except Suriname and French Guiana and suggests inexpensive ways backpackers can hook up with local organisations to both save money and do some good.
We have finally decided to come out to play with the rest of the planet and got ourselves a Facebook page.
I’m not sure why I put this off for so long but I’m glad we have beaten some members of the world’s more remote tribes in signing up for the social medium. Even this family – who less than a year ago were pointing to the sky and wondering just where the hell that big metal bird came from – have a Facebook page and are wondering whether to bother with G+.
Even they got on Facebook before us
I was recently interviewed by Shane of National RV Parks where I reveal, among other things, how The Working Traveller first came into being as a small press magazine, how backpacking with a photocopier is really tricky and why I threatened to give a three wheeled motorcycle a damned good thrashing.
National RV Parks aims to provide RVers and world travellers with the information required to make their travels experience a positive one. Along with articles on RVing and camp cooking tips the site carries hundreds of interviews with world travellers.
Read the full interview at National RV Parks
In a way this post is for me. You can take a day off from reading this blog if you like because as I am going to explain below I may take some days off from writing it.
I rarely set goals but 2012 will be the year I hope that our overall plan for The Working Traveller and our other volunteer work and jobs abroad sites start to come together.
Last year, trying to write something Christmassy while putting as little effort into the task as possible, I came up with the inspired idea of writing about things I had already written about.
‘Repeats’ I shouted, metaphorically jumping out of the bath. ‘What could be more Christmassy than that?’
This year, devoid of any pretence to do anything different, I have resolved to do the same and repeat the repeats idea.
We have added a new name to our slowly expanding little group of websites. Free (or Cheap) Volunteer Work Abroad joins the Overseas Job Centre and the Jobs Abroad Bulletin in providing ways to travel longer by working abroad and volunteering.
As the name suggests this site is aimed at those looking to find volunteer programmes but do not want to pay large sums of money to get involved in helping others, the environment or even themselves by acquiring new skills and ideas.
Latest Jobs Abroad @ JAB
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