If you're looking to
volunteer on your gap year, South America is an ideal destination, the Amazon Rainforest and Caribbean coastline playing host to some of the world's leading conservation programs.
Not exact matches
On graduation she did a «
gap year,» spending the first part in a «Work America»
volunteer research project in Lubbock, Texas, helping to design a part of a particle detector for the Stanford Linear Collider (SLAC), and spending the rest of the
year touring the U.S., hitching rides all the way from Mexico to Alaska.
Volunteering with animals
on your
gap year is the perfect way to have an amazing travel experience while also helping local animals and wildlife in need.
Many
gap year travellers cite the time they spent
on their
gap year volunteering abroad as the best and most rewarding part of their travels.
Volunteering abroad
on your
gap year is an ideal way to make the most of your time away, to travel and see the world while also giving something back.
In short, I write articles that focus
on meaningful travel abroad, whether it's studying abroad, working abroad,
volunteering abroad, interning abroad, learning a new language abroad, pursuing TEFL courses abroad, or doing a
gap year or adventure travel abroad.
If you have a large employment
gap on your resume because of a disability (more than a
year), try to fill it in with something like
volunteering, continuing education, or professional development.
For example, you may have done some
volunteer work while
on a
gap year, taken a course after a redundancy, or demonstrated a whole other host of skills through raising a family or looking after a family member.
Take up opportunities such as bar work, a summer job at the local supermarket, office temping, SU electioneering,
volunteering,
gap year travelling and so
on and then sell it to recruiters in your applications for graduate schemes.
With
gaps approaching a
year and longer, it is important that you were doing something, whether it was temp work,
volunteer work, or occasional consulting gigs, along with time spent
on your job hunt.