Have you just finished school and are you tempted by the call of the wide world? Or would you like to take a semester off before starting your master's degree and travel around the globe as a work & traveler? Good decision! The adventures you will experience during your experience abroad are ones you will remember for a lifetime! However, that is just one of the reasons for a Work & Travel trip.
What is meant by Work & Travel?
“Work & Travel” refers to the combination of working and traveling abroad, in which you improve your travel budget through short, odd jobs. Typical backpacker destinations are Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but exotic countries such as Japan, Chile, Israel and Mexico are also becoming increasingly popular.
What advantages does Work & Travel bring you?
No matter whether you are heading to Australia, New Zealand, Asia or America – great experiences await you in every country. Benefits are mainly:
- Comprehensive language skills: If you spend some time in another country, you will master the language spoken there in no time! This is a big plus point for your academic and professional career.
- New cultures: Get to know foreign cultures and develop a greater understanding of other ways of life. This will make you even more cosmopolitan and tolerant, which is absolutely important in the globalized world in which we live.
- Expand your horizons: Do you need some distance from home and want to get to know yourself again? What better way to do this than in an unknown environment! Learn more about yourself and your life so far and look at everything in a new light.
- Make contacts: On your journey you will meet many new people and make friends and acquaintances for life. This is not only great for you personally, but can also be beneficial for your professional career. If you love children, becoming an au pair instead of working and traveling could also be interesting for you.
- Spruce up your resume: Nothing beats an international stay - good for you when you're applying for jobs.
- Personal development: The Work & Travel experience will make you more independent, open and self-confident - you will benefit from this in every situation.
Plan your work & travel stay with the innovative checklist
Off to Australia for six months of work & travel! Sounds pretty good in theory, but putting it into practice isn't that easy. Before you sit on the plane in anticipation, there are still a few things that need to be done. It can easily happen that you forget something - and usually it is something that is particularly important.
We have the right solution for this problem for you: Plan and organize your work & travel trip with the interactive checklist from Auslandsjob.de. Like a real checklist on paper, you gradually tick off everything you have already done: Is the passport still up to date? Have you already put together your application documents? Then click “Done” and your progress will be saved.
The interactive Work & Travel checklist offers you many advantages:
- Simply log in via Facebook and check your progress at any time - your data is guaranteed not to be lost.
- Don't worry about annoying advertising or data protection - no spam will appear in your profile and your personal data will not be saved.
- Check off the individual items in the order that suits you - although it is recommended to roughly stick to the given sequence.
- Benefit from the helpful tips that are attached to each item to be ticked off - this way you can prepare even more specifically for your planned trip and have everything you need with you.
We have also put together further important tips for planning your work & travel stay for you.
However, the Auslandsjob.de portal doesn't just offer you an interactive checklist for your long-distance trip. Founded by INITIATIVE Auslandszeit, Auslandsjob.de has set itself the task of creating the most comprehensive information platform on the subject of work & travel on the German-speaking web. There you will find everything you need to know about work & travel, from a large cost comparison of popular long-distance destinations to information about working abroad. Click in and pack your bags - we'll soon be heading out into the big, wide world!
But don't forget - Work & Travel also has the word "Work" in it! We'll tell you how to find suitable work & travel jobs abroad .
Set off into the wide world and collect your personal work & travel experiences! With the interactive checklist from Auslandsjob.de you have all the important things with you and are sure not to leave anything behind at home.
