Looking to travel or an activity holiday?

There are a wide range of opportunities like sky diving, scuba diving, trekking, rafting, gliding and more. When you are backpacking there are lots of outdoor activities and gap year adventure trips with extreme travel activities.

Gap year adventure tours and career break activities can include white water rafting, extreme sports and adventure sports. Tour operators can arrange outdoor adventure holidays, big city adventure, hiking holiday, trekking and activity holidays.

There are a wealth of opportunities to work or volunteer with animals. Animal volunteer work could include helping pandas in China, preserving lions in South Africa, working with Elephants in Asia, animal conservation projects and animal care voluntary work.

You are sure to find a rewarding animal volunteer placement to suit you, there are lots of volunteering with animal projects, animal volunteering jobs and animal voluntary work abroad opportunities.

Voluntary work with animals can include volunteering at animal shelter, volunteer abroad with wild animals or in africa you could volunteer with african animals by working at a game reserve.

Instruct in a wide range of performing arts including assisting music classes or leading drama lessons.

Work experience can be a good way to get children jobs, you could consider work painting, drawing, children dance work, training to be a drama instructor.

If you enjoy music you could become a music instuctor as there are a wide range of jobs in music. Jobs in the arts can include drama positions, becoming a music teacher, art teacher, drama teacher or even a career in with fashion jobs.

Summer camps hire a lot of staff for entertainment jobs, dance jobs, art jobs, music jobs, drama work and music roles.

Live in work is rewarding and varied, working with children, young people and on health care projects.

Training in care work is a good opportunity to build a rewarding career within Health and Social Care.

Care work recruiters hire working holiday visa participants and also provide you with full training to work with clients and the opportunity to study towards an NVQ in Health and Social Care with us covering the cost.

A lot of care work jobs are live-in, when on an assignment you will be provided with food and accommodation.

A number of companies offer the chance to mix up your travel experience and offer placements which include work, volunteering and travelling. An example is doing an expedition whilst learning a new language and then volunteering.

Combo placements include adventure travel, travel and tours, volunteer travel and travel vacations that combine a range of activities.

Volunteer opportunities and community development travel is incresingly popular with volunteers and gap year international volunteers.

With community based projects and charitable community organisations you could spend a life changing trip on environmental placements, childcare projects, or construction placements building schools.

Volunteering projects in Africa with community foundations, community programs, development projects is a rewarding way to spend a community based gap year. Career break volunteering projects and volunteer travel is popular with people seeking a fresh challenge.

You could volunteer as part of a community service with a diverse range of community organizations offering international volunteer programs abroad.

Participating in conservation projects when travelling can be a rewarding experience, you could work or volunteer to protect biodiveristy, conserve natural habitats, help endangered animals or assist environmental projects.

Conservation holidays which incorporate animal conservation, conservation development, conservation expeditions and general conservation projects are very popular with people on gap conservation.

A range of career breaks include conservation tourism, environmental conservation, youth conservation and travel volunteer projects.

Summer conservation activities are popular with students who during the break from studies can participate on endangered species conservation and year out conservation travel volunteering projects.

Educational placements can include teaching or assisting in schools with children or working on community projects within communities around the world.

With educational work you have the option to be part of an education and work placements, studying and gaining hands on work experience.

You could study abroad on a gap year, education teaching jobs and TEFL teaching with development education projects are incresingly popular.

Expeditions challenge you to venture into the unknown to develop skills as part of world expeditions in some of the most adventurous parts of the globe.

Gap year travel can include student expeditions, an antarctic expedition, arctic expedition, geographic expeditions, polar expedition and general expedition travel.

Adventure expeditions can include a range of adventure sports such as wilderness expeditions, climbing expeditions, rafting expeditions and worldwide travel expeditions and tours. Expeditions to Africa could include a chaitable trek, mountain expedition or climbing expedition to Mount Kilimanajiro.

Humanitarian aid projects and humanitarian relief is provided in developing countries by a range of global organisations, non profit's and NGO's.

Roles with humanitarian work can involve fund raising and working from an organisations office, to actively taking part in projects around the world.

Some people take a gap year to include humanitarian projects as there are lots of humanitarian education projects, environmental projects and human rights projects seeking volunteers and workers.

You could take an instructor course to get qualified in a specific field of work. These courses could help when looking for a career in childcare, sports instruction or even adventure sports instuctor careers.

By taking instructor courses you will gain experience in a wide range of activities, PADI instructor courses train you to be a qualified scuba diver where you will be able to lead instructor courses and teach others skills.

Winter ski instructor courses and snowboard instructor training courses can help you get a winter ski resort job. Ski instructor courses in Canada and Australia are popular with people on adventure gap years.

Full and part time internship programs offer the opportunity to work within a company for an internship career gaining knowledge and skills of the industry.

A lot of students take summer internships, some of these are paid summer internships and on completion of a uni course there are a wide range of undergraduate internships and graduate internships.

If you apply for a working holiday visa abroad, you can search for internship jobs in the USA, Canada, Australia and worldwide.

Find employment, full time, part time and voluntary work worldwide.

Some jobs often require a degree of skill in the area you are working in, or if you are looking to gain work experience you could take part in voluntary work placements overseas.

There are a wide range of work placements available including professional work, student jobs, jobs assistants, graduate jobs and summer and winter work.

You will be find a job in most worldwide countries depending on the visa system. A lot of people on gap years take working holiday jobs abroad in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA.

Learn a new language or immerse yourself in a new culture with the opportunity to progress and teach.

If you are studying to learn a language there are a range of langauage courses available. Some language schools offer you the opportunity to learn a foreign language.

TEFL language courses are popular with language teachers wanting to teach English abroad.

Jobs in the media is a very popular career choice, especially with students.

Media journalism jobs and interships with media companies are very compatative, a lot of people seeking media work experience opt to take a gap year abroad part of voluntary journalism projects.

When working in the media you could get to report on current events and be part of a production crew working in television. You could apply for media work at a newspaper or broadcast media, graduate media jobs or media production jobs.

Assist in hospitals, clinics with voluntary organisations for short and long periods.

When looking for health employment and health care jobs you will find a range of opportunities and medical careers.

A lot of students study health education and then take year out work placements in medical research jobs, health jobs and medical research jobs.

You could start out in a medical assistant job or part time medical jobs before looking for medical job openings and public health work careers.

Undertake religious work or religious volunteering. Options include being part of a religious mission abroad or even working within your local community.

Catholic, Christian, Jewish and Buddhist organsiations organise volunteering and overseas missionary activities.

There are a wide range of NGO's, charities and christian volunteering organisations operating in Africa, and religious gap year programs are popular with people seeking religious missions abroad.

There are a wide range of sport gap years and sporting holidays worldwide. Sport instructors and needed in the UK and abroad, land sport and water sport instructor work placements and volunteer sports projects are increasingly in demand.

Coaching in sport is a popular career with kids sports coaching, outdoor sports instructor, private sports instructor and school sports coaching.

Teaching sport and coaching sports with voluntary organisation or at summer camps are programs students take. There are a range of sport courses to help you become a sports fitness instructor and help find sports instructor jobs.

There are a wide range of land sport holidays worldwide. Land sport instructors and needed in the UK and abroad, land sport instructor work placements and volunteer sports projects are in demand with travellers.

When coaching land based activities, from football coaching, cricket coaching, basketball coaching and more you have the option to take instructor courses.

Football coaching jobs in the USA is popular on sport gap years, summer camps recrtuit sport instructors during the summer. Responsibilities include teaching sports, leading and assisting with all types of sports activities.

Voluntary sport instructors are need in developing countries to help with community football coaching jobs and action sports projects.

There are a wide range of water sport gap years and sporting holidays worldwide. Water sport instructors and needed in the UK and abroad, water sport instructor work placements and volunteer water sports projects are increasingly in demand.

Coaching water based activities, from kayaking instructors, surfing instructors, canoeing instructors, sailing instructors or water ski instructors is a popular career path. Adventure sports instructors have the option to take instructor courses, PADI scuba diving instructors can instruct scuba diving lessons worldwide.

Adventure holidays being a water sports instructor at summer camps and on gap years is increasinly popular with students.

Educational study and research projects can include teaching or assisting in schools with children or working on community projects within communities around the world.

When studying there are a wide range of topics educational research, you also have the option to be part of an education and work placements, studying and gaining hands on work experience.

You could study abroad on a gap year, education teaching jobs and TEFL teaching with development education projects are incresingly popular.

Summer camps jobs in the USA is a great way to have a fun summer.

International programs like Camp America, BUNAC summer camp USA, Interexchange, CCUSA, Camp Leaders offer USA summer camp jobs and J1 work visas.

Applications for summer camp counselor jobs in 2010 are open and are very popular with students who can work during summer before going back to education. Jobs at summer camp include summer sports instructors, cabin counsellors, cooks / chefs, maintenance staff, music instuctors

Summer camp work is also available in the UK, Europe and worldwide where there are lots of youth camps, girls camps, boys camps and religious camp jobs.

There are a wide range of summer jobs, from working holiday jobs, summer resort work, summer camp jobs, temporary jobs and casual work.

Summer jobs are popular with students who can work in the summer inbetween a college or uni term. Summer jobs in 2010 are now accepting applications and popular work program include Camp America, summer camp USA and work placements abroad.

Temporary summer jobs and part time summer work can be found at holiday resorts who hire seasonal staff.

Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is a popular option for people seeking to learn a new language and live in a different country.

Some gap year teaching placements are voluntary, but you can find paid teaching jobs in the UK and abroad. Popular destinations include teaching in Thailand, teaching in China and teaching in Japan.

Some people take TEFL courses and tesol courses which help you prepare to be a teacher. ESL teaching and language teaching vacancies can be found worldwide.

Travel and tours with international tour organisations and travel agencies are availble worldwide.

There are a wide range of tours, including adventure tours, sightseeing tours, conservation tours, coach tours, walking tours and guided tours.

You could even train to become a tour guide or expedition trip leader in Africa or abroad on a gap year.

Europe tours are popular with Americans, Australians and South Africans on gap years whilst some package tours include a range of adventure activities.

There are a wide range of winter jobs available in 2010 at a ski resorts in Europe and abroad.

Winter work can include chalet staff, cooks, cleaners, lift operators, slope patrols and general resort staff. If you are looking for winter jobs you could train to become a ski or snowboard instructor.

There are lots of winter ski jobs available at ski resorts, jobs in the alps are very popular with people seeking adventure and travel gap years. There is a need for seasonal winter staff worldwide with ski workers and snowboard instructor jobs available year round.

Winter ski work can include instructing ski lessons, assisting on ski slopes, lift operators, slope patrols and general ski resort staff. Popular ski work programs include winter jobs in Europe, winter jobs in France, winter jobs in New Zealand and winter jobs in the USA.

Winter jobs in Canada are popular with people on working holiday visas.

Find employment, full time, part time and voluntary work placements worldwide.

Some jobs often require a degree of skill in the area you are working in, or if you are looking to gain work experience you could take part in voluntary work placements overseas.

There are a wide range of work placements available including professional work, student work placements, graduate placements, jobs assistants, graduate jobs and summer and winter work. You will be able to find work placement abroad in most worldwide countries depending on the visa system. A lot of people on gap years take working holiday work abroad.

Popular year out work programs include work placements Australia, work placements New Zealand, work placements Canada and work placements USA.