JAB / 127 / May 2024: Ski Season Jobs Available Now
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⭐️Walk Advisors
ITALY & SWITZERLAND > The guests on a Collett’s walking holiday are generally a middle aged crowd of outdoor enthusiasts from the UK who love the mountains. Collett’s is happy to take applications for any season but, at the moment, they are particularly interested in finding a couple or pair of friends to lead walks in the Italian Dolomites from early June to late September, and in Tuscany from mid September to late October. They also need a female walk advisor in the Swiss Alps from mid June to mid September. In Switzerland, they are looking for UK nationals only.
⭐️Are You An English Speaking Tech Student?
ITALY > If you are, you can join Speak this summer in Italy. They create English immersion camps, where their students – Italians aged between 18 and 30, studying mechatronics and engineering and wanting to learn English – live alongside English speaking volunteers, spending every moment of the day in an environment of natural English conversation. Speak is particularly looking for English speakers studying technical subjects such as engineering, electronics, mechatronics or design.
⭐️Horse Riding In Spain
SPAIN > Pegasus Riding Centre in the Alpujarra mountains in an area of outstanding natural beauty, close to the funky alternative “hippy’ town” of Orgiva, is once again taking on volunteers for placements from now and throughout the year. Some basic experience with horses is essential for safety reasons. More details are given in the private Worldwide Helper & Volunteer Group or via their website.
⭐️Hopes Dashed That Brexit May Be Less Shit In The Future
EUROPE > The European Commission has proposed opening negotiations with the UK to allow EU and UK citizens aged between 18 and 30 the mobility they enjoyed before Brexit, reports The Guardian newspaper and the BBC. Under the proposals, millions of young people may be able to stay for up to four years in their destination country allowing EU nationals to fill vacant hospitality jobs in the UK and Brits to work in European summer and ski resorts. A day later, the incompetent buffoons in charge of the UK rejected the idea. The Labour Opposition also says it has no plans for a youth mobility scheme.
⭐️Rural Community Volunteering
CAMBODIA > We found Osoam Cardamom Community Center while travelling vicariously through the Travels on Toast channel. Osoam is a very small, rural community - four villages with 327 families, mostly of the Chorng and Poer indigenous people - located in the heart of the Cardamom Mountains in southwest Cambodia (map). Started by Mr Lim, a wildlife ranger who began to see a pattern in the arrests he was making of members from the local community caught up in illegal activities, the community centre aims to provide local people with an alternative income away from logging and poaching. There is a small weekly fee to volunteer but we liked both the vibe of the place and its aims.
⭐️Island Backpacker Beach Resort Volunteering
CAMBODIA > Travels on Toast also stayed with Kactus – The Hidden Treehouse Beach Resort on Koh Ta Kiev, an as yet largely untouched island off Cambodia’s coast. They offer volunteer opportunities to people looking to live an island dream for a minimum of three weeks. They mainly accept help with waiting, bartending and making their guests feel pampered. Beach cleaning, construction and gardening are more options.
They also look for people who can teach meditation, yoga, martial arts, alternative healing and medicines, and would welcome people with specific skills in these areas to lead projects. Finally, they always need help getting the word out to the world and welcome all content creators, Instagrammers, bloggers and social media influencers to share their experience on the island.
⭐️Digital Nomad Visa List
REMOTE > Nomadico celebrated its 100th issue last month. Featured in their centenary issue is VisaList, a list of digital nomad visas described as a “very minimalist site with frequent grammar errors, but it does show fees and income requirements and it links out to the official government page for each of the 56 countries and territories.”
⭐️International Travelers House Content Creation
USA & MEXICO > Live onsite in an ITH Hostel creating content each week to grow their brand. The ITH content creator position requires you to provide help for 12 hours per week on content creation projects, plus 12 hours of reception and housekeeping work and one hour hosting a social activity. Other positions are also available with the hostel group.
⭐️Who Is Already Hiring For Winter 24/25 Ski Season Jobs In Europe?
EUROPE > The 2023/24 ski season ended in most resorts in the past week or so. As we write Mountain Heaven is posting pictures from around La Plagne of their last day, describing the amount of snow as akin to January. While they haven’t yet amended 23/24 to 24/25 on their recruitment page, plenty of ski resort employers have made time between the end of season parties and bikini runs to do so. We have gone through our big list of ski season employers from last year and plucked out those stating that they are already hiring for next season or will begin doing so this month.
* Mountain & Tradition have listed their staff requirements for their vacancies next year in Les Gets, a family friendly French village a few minutes from the livelier Morzine. Their excellent recruitment section also provides a handy guide to working a season including a step by step guide for Brits and other non EU nationals applying for a visa to work in France.
* Chalet staff can earn a living in Morzine with AliKats Mountain Holidays. Their downloadable job descriptions are available on their website.
* VIP Ski’s recruitment team has returned to the UK to start sifting through the thousands of CVs they’ll be receiving for the around 170 vacancies that need filling in one of their over 40 properties across Avoriaz, Morzine, Les Gets, Arc 1950 and Val d'Isere.
* Massage Me will need massage practitioners to come from all over Europe and beyond to spoil their customers in Alpine resorts over winter 24/25. They also hire customer care agents for their main office in Aime, who must speak French and English, have excellent customer care skills, enjoy a challenge and like a giggle.
* Merinannies is asking their customers to swap their Alpine slope ski gear for Grecian shore swimwear. Concurrently, their Instagram is hitting up nannies already looking forward to spending next winter in France or Austria.
* To help with providing their nanny services next year in Morzine, Avoriaz, and Les Gets, Alpine Resort Nannies recently placed an ad for dedicated childcarers with at least two years of professional experience.
* Here’s the application form to apply to Ski Basics as a chalet host, driver/host, chalet cook or chalet manager. They offer both catered and self catered options catering to a range of budgets in Meribel. UK applications are considered.
* Drivers with three years or more of driving experience can find work transporting TG Ski’s clients to the slopes from their chalets in Morzine and Meribel. Outside of these duties, the role will involve helping the chalet hosts - who are skilled in either catering or front of house - in and outside the chalets and entertaining guests. Professional chefs are also hired. Applicants must be over 21 by the end of November.
* Spoken French is desirable and excellent customer service skills essential when driving for Mountain Drop-offs. They provide an airport and in-valley transfer service in Chamonix and the surrounding areas.
* The Boutique Chalet Company is always on the lookout for great chalet hosts, managers, chefs, housekeepers and drivers to join their teams in resort. Current vacancies are listed here. They will accept applications from UK nationals, but only for more experienced roles.
* Love skiing over partying? Then Val d’Isere is the resort for you, says Mountain Rooms and Chalets. They also say that for Brits a season is still feasible but not guaranteed and that they are hiring for next year now, so get in touch.
* Skiworld has opened recruitment for resort managers, chalet managers, chalet chefs, chalet hosts, and maintenance people to staff their operations in France and Austria. They say more roles are coming soon too.
* Kaluma, an owner managed, boutique ski chalet operator working in St Anton am Arlberg and Courchevel 1850, wants team players who demonstrate constant professionalism, a positive attitude and a willingness to go that extra mile for their guests. Chefs, chalet hosts, drivers and a resort manager are taken on here.
* Bramble Ski operates catered and self catered luxury chalets in Switzerland, Austria and France. They are hiring experienced and qualified chalet hosts and managers.
* A large amount of staff return to owner run Consensio Chalets year after year for their ski season jobs in Val d’Isère, Méribel and Courchevel: chalet hosts and managers, chefs, chauffeurs, housekeepers and resort assistants. If your position comes with an apartment you can bring your dog.
* Ski Blanc wants couples - one experienced in the kitchen and able to cook confidently to a high standard, the other, experienced in front of house and housekeeping - to join them for the 2024/25 ski season in Meribel. They will consider Brits living in France and Australians, Kiwis and Canadians with working holiday visas.
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* Chilly Powder say they begin their recruitment process nice and early for chalet hosts, chefs, room assistants and nannies hoping to work in Morzine-Avoriaz.
* Chalet host, help, driver and resort crew shaped holes in Reach4TheAlps’ portfolio of five catered and 15 self catered properties in the Morzine and Les Gets area need filling by couples and singles.
* Hunter Chalets is recruiting their team for winter 24/25, offering a range of ski season jobs for 2024/2025 in the resorts of Morzine and Les Gets.
* Lee and Kevin operate Chalet de la Vanoise in Paradiski. They don’t carry any employment information on their website but were spotted recently advertising for a chef and a host in the Chalets Direct forums.
* A pop up on the website of Meribel’s Le Rond Point, aka The Ronnie, states that they are closed for the summer but are recruting [sic] for winter 24/25. Answer five questions here to apply for their manager level, front of house, floor staff, chef, kitchen porter, housekeeping and night porter roles. In the same resort, The Doron Pub and Scott's Bar are looking for experienced bar and kitchen staff.
* Alpine Escape’s chalets are found in the Courchevel resorts of the Three Valleys. Their latest vacancies are advertised in Just Jobs.
* A good option in particular for childcarers, Ski Famille haven’t quite yet opened applications for 24/25 but will do so at the end of the month. Most other winter season roles are also offered here. They state that they still employ British passport holders for their vacancies in France - applying for a work permit and visa for you - and also those with a Youth Mobility Visa for France.
* Specify why you want to work for Skiology out of all the tour operators for a better chance of a response to your application - though don’t expect one until June at the earliest. Information for their chalet and logistics positions for 24/25 is already on their website, but they will be on holiday in May.
* There is dedicated information on Ski Beat’s excellent recruitment website for people applying from Ireland, France, Poland and Britain to join their small winter team. They’ll begin hiring this month. Most of their positions are for chalet hosts.
* If you have snow running through your veins, are flexible, love being part of a high performing team, have previous hospitality experience, are over 21, and hold a UK or EU passport, Ski Verbier Exclusive would love to talk with you when applications open in May.
* Three nights after their season closing beach party, the Saloon Bar group, made up of five bars in Val Thorens, went onto their Facebook page to announce that they are opening applications in May for 60+ positions next season. In the past, they’ve held interviews in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal and Ireland. They are looking for a little bit of everything: front of house, DJs, kitchen staff, etc. Their email is jobs@saloonbar.com.
* Val d’Isère hosts 19 YSE chalets. They will shortly be looking for staff who should be charming, like meeting people, smile a lot and want their guests to have wonderful holidays. They welcome applications from both UK and EU passport holders.
* The Alpine Generation operate catered ski chalets in various resorts across the French Alps, including Morzine, La Tania, Courchevel Le Praz and La Plagne. Previous career breakers themselves, they are always interested to hear from couples and individuals who are looking to do the same and will soon be inviting applications to join their chalet teams for five months next winter.
⭐️Childcare Assistant Wanted In Crete
GREECE > Scott Dunn announced on their LinkedIn recently that they have childcare assistant jobs starting in May for people with experience, personality, and a genuine love of hospitality and childcare. EU passport holders with strong spoken English will be working for them on a self employed basis. They also want someone to head to the southwest Peloponnese to run and manage the children’s club operation in their luxury resort of Costa Navarino.
⭐️Summer In Morzine And Les Gets
FRANCE > Alpine Elements still have some vacancies left for the summer season. Check them out and apply at https://careers.alpineelements.co.uk/vacancies/.
⭐️Stoke Travel Opens A Campsite In Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS > Described as somewhere cheap to pass out, Stoke Travel recently opened a permanent campsite in Amsterdam. They accept volunteers willing to work for accommodation, meals and beer. Worldpackers members can apply here too.
⭐️43 Weird And Creative Ways To Make Money Online
REMOTE > It’s not a new post on his eBiz Facts website and newsletter, but we liked former travel blogger Niall Doherty’s list of creative online business ideas. Examples include allowing people to piggyback off your credit, virtual hair styling, helping Chinese people fake wealth, and selling breast milk online.
⭐️Donkey Rescue In Corfu
GREECE > Volunteers and veterinary students are a great help in giving Corfu's abandoned and abused donkeys a safe and happy retirement at Corfu Donkey Rescue (map). The work is both fulfilling and demanding so you’ll need to really love animals here - all the more so as volunteers must arrange their own accommodation and bring their own food. The daily routine involves a lot of picking up poop. If their aim were better, two donkeys could fill a wheelbarrow with poop in a 24 hour period.
Further north on the island, beside the beach in Roda, we saw Katreena Horse Riding advertising last November for volunteers to help them out over summer 2024. Accommodation and meals are provided here.
⭐️Planetary Service
WORLDWIDE > Working towards a sustainable and regenerative future, Planetary Service has grouped together a small number of hosts across the globe (with more to come) - in India, Brazil, Egypt, Honduras, Canada, the USA and the UK - where young people aged 18 to 35 can volunteer for ten months in exchange for food and accommodation. No fees are involved to become a participant beyond the usual costs of health insurance, visas and travel.
⭐️Safe Sailing
AT SEA > We’re in the peak months for yachts wintering in the Caribbean slipping their moorings and crossing the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. We did a short post on this last year mentioning Findacrew.net as a place to find both paid and unpaid berths on private yachts. Crewbay is another place to find boats.
In a Guardian Australia newspaper article last year (Stranded at sea: amateur female sailors speak of sexual abuse by captains they met online) both websites were urged to do more to protect victims who set off seeking adventure only to be trapped onboard with a predator.
After more than a year of urging by victims and advocates asking Crewbay to publish safety precautions alerting female crew of the risks of sexual assault and sexual harassment while crewing on sailboats, The Salt Sirens reports that Crewbay finally agreed to publish some general safety tips. For women who want to crew on leisure boats, The Salt Sirens suggests the Safety Precautions for Female Crew on Leisure Boats Facebook group.
⭐️Have An Embassy Summer
WORLDWIDE > Embassy Summer is on the hunt for enthusiastic individuals to join them in one of their summer schools in Canada, the USA, the UK, Malta, Dubai and Cape Town. For people eager to embrace a new challenge, broaden their perspectives, and play a role in creating unforgettable educational journeys, they have roles available as activity leaders, EFL teachers, and in management.
⭐️Qualified English Teachers in Phnom Penh And Siem Reap
CAMBODIA > The Australian Centre for Education (ACE) seeks fully qualified, native English speaking teachers for their five campuses in Phnom Penh, one in Siem Reap and online via the ACE Virtual Campus.
⭐️A Year Teaching In Honduras
HONDURAS > BECA has placed over 250 individuals just like you in their partner schools as volunteer teachers. Volunteers come from different backgrounds. Some are educators, but others are recent college grads, marketing professionals, lawyers, or retired.
⭐️English Language School Jobs In Malta
MALTA > Full and part time applicants who hold a TEFL, CELTA, or DELTA qualification (or equivalent) are hired by Maltalingua School of English. Sociable group leaders/animators who care about the well being of their young students are also required. The positions are described as ideal for people looking for work experience in the education and travel sector.
⭐️Certified Life Guards Wanted
COSTA RICA > In 2015, after three drowning deaths off the beaches of Santa Teresa, a group of foreign lifeguards, led by Matías Etchenique, organised to patrol the beach during high tourist seasons. Since then, the Santa Teresa Lifeguards voluntary exchange programme has seen more than 60 volunteers from around the world donate their services for up to three months in exchange for accommodation and meals.
⭐️Kos Bar And Club Jobs
GREECE > Zone looks for PRs and bar staff to work from the beginning of May until the end of October. The most important thing they require is people who have a likeable personality, are confident to talk to anybody, are hardworking, and can be trusted. They say they ensure you have a place to live and at least one meal per day. Leave your social media address on their contact page or use the WhatsApp function in the bottom right of their website to apply.
⭐️Outback Governess Positions
AUSTRALIA > Unforeseen circumstances mean Western Grazing is looking for a governess to join them and 10,000 cattle on their Oban Station in Queensland. Elsewhere in the state, the Howe family (private group) offers a quiet bush environment 80km west of Clermont. A trial period is possible to see if the role is the right fit for you before committing long term.
⭐️Paid Festival Work For Seasoned Pros Or Just Starting Out
UK > You, and this 49 year old hag (private group) looking for paid work at festivals this summer to make some cash for her son’s 21st birthday party, might be interested in working for Mint People. They are calling all enthusiastic bar staff to join their team at the hottest events across the UK.
⭐️Soi Dogs
THAILAND > We featured Phuket’s Soi Dog Foundation last November in our post on volunteering with rescue dogs in Thailand. YouTuber Paddy Doyle recently spent a few days there volunteering amongst the 1400+ dogs (and 160+ cats) housed in the sanctuary.
⭐️Bird Handler And Show Presenter
IRELAND > If you love birds of prey and have an interest in working with them, take a look at this graphic and then email fiona@aillweecave.ie for more information.
⭐️Bird Spotters
UK > Three or four fieldworkers are needed for up to six days to do farmland bird surveys in West Cumbria, Somerset, North Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire for the British Trust for Ornithology. Good farmland bird ID skills are required. Applications close May 10.
⭐️German Speaking Biologist Guide
CAPE VERDE > Got a degree in biology? Explore Cape Verde, an ecotourism agency, is seeking passionate biologists fluent in German to join their team in Sal.
⭐️Free Accommodation Offered In Stockholm
SWEDEN > Nomad Cave is looking for volunteers who will live in their hostel for free and in exchange keep an eye on things and help around the place when needed.
⭐️Bar Work In Australia
AUSTRALIA > In the large, dry, thinly populated region of Pilbara, in the north of Western Australia, the Samsun Beach Tavern is looking for experienced bar tenders with cocktail knowledge. Accommodation is provided. Accommodation is also available for the right candidates applying for bar jobs (private group) at the Jambin and Biloela Hotels in Queensland.
⭐️Nature Community Volunteering
GERMANY > Tasks on the upcoming ESC funded Nature Community Volunteering Team project will range from helping with renovations, working in the permaculture garden, contributing to their vegan kitchen and taking on smaller tasks for their community members.
⭐️Matchday Chefs
UK > Manchester United is seeking motivated individuals to join their culinary team at the iconic and leaky Old Trafford Stadium. Can’t cook? Don’t worry, you may not need to.
⭐️Looking Ahead To Summer 2025
EUROPE > Sports and fitness instructors from the UK and EU can register their interest now to work for TUI in summer 2025. They also state that while their standard recruitment cycle commences in October, they remain open to considering exceptional candidates who may become available during the upcoming summer months for summer 24.
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