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Placements in the hospitality industry, childcare or teaching positions. Cultural Embrace pre-arranges and guarantees your job offer prior to departure. Your local salary will be enough to pay for your basic expenses while living abroad. They also include ...
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Located right by the sea on a Greek island surrounded by unspoiled pine forests, Skyros Holidays is an organizations offering experiential holidays. They are looking for sociable, flexible, team players who enjoy looking after people and not afraid of a b ...
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PGL has positions available to join the PGL Staff team at 35 activity centres throughout the UK, France and Spain, tour locations across Europe, ski resorts in Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France and at their head office in England. Opportunities inclu ...
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Seasonal Work NZ connects workers with potential employers across New Zealand. the majority of the jobs are in the agricultural sector (picking and packing), but other jobs in the hospitality and construction industries are also listed. Resources for acco ...
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Study Australia, LLC offers courses at 19 highly reputable universities in Australia and New Zealand, Study Australia gives students the opportunity to study courses in their major or take electives in areas of interest to them. Semester, full year, summe ...
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Looking for a change of career or direction? Want to be in charge of your own day? As Kumuka continues to grow, they are on the lookout for well travelled and energetic people to join their team. Tour leaders and drivers operate trips worldwide, and head ...
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The Schulich International MBA offers students, Canadian and non-Canadian, the opportunity to have a global vision and international perspective. The twenty-month program, which commences each Fall term, includes: a work term, study abroad term, internati ...
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Dublin Internships arranges internships for international students. The internships provide students with work experience that is focused on their career goals, increases their skills, and enhances their resumes. Dublin Internships provides internships at ...
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UNESCAP provides opportunities for students who are enrolled in graduate programs to undertake an internship with one of its diverse range of divisions and agencies, most of them located at its Bangkok headquarters. The programme aims to expose the intern ...
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Sani Resort offers internships to students who are enrolled in a college or university programme that requires an internship component. Internships generally run for around 6 months. Internships are available in all offices within the resort, including Fr ...
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Adelante Abroad offers internships in Spanish speaking countries. Internships are available in many industries and sectors, including law, administration and management, education, marketing and entrepreneurship, among others. Language components, and ful ...
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For Canadian and other non-American participants, Centre for Cultural Interchange (CCI) arranges academic year high school, as well as a variety of programmes for students and adults wishing to live and/or work in the US for a short period of time. For Am ...
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Sunsail recruits for positions with Sunsail USA and Sunsail UK. Job opportunities are available in the Caribbean as well as Greece and Turkey. Positions include sailors, hostesses, clubhouse staff, cooks and nannies, as well as various Head Office positio ...
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Since 1985, Tenuta di Spannocchia and the Etruscan Foundation have hosted volunteers and interns who have worked on the Spannocchia farm in exchange for room and board. In the late 1990s, the Internship Programme developed a more formal syllabus that incl ...
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As a designated J-1 visa sponsor, AIPT provides programme opportunities for foreign nationals to gain invaluable career internships and on-the-job training experience in the United States. Three options exist for foreign nationals travelling to the United ...
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Connect-123 facilitates international internship and volunteer positions, linking students and graduates with hands-on learning opportunities in Argentina, China, Ireland, South Africa and Spain for personal and career development. We work across a wide r ...
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Working for G.A.P Adventures is a lifestyle choice that provides the chance to work for an organization that is young, aggressive and proud of being market leaders. G.A.P prides itself on being a "work hard/play hard" company that is dedicated to entrepre ...
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AustraLearn has study abroad opportunities in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific at the college/university level. Students may study abroad for a semester or year or earn an entire degree at one of 30 major universities, participate in a study ...
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Real Gap Experience can help participants live dreams of a working holiday! A working holiday is the perfect way to experience the world to its fullest. Participants may are not necessarily be looking for work in their field (and that is often not allowed ...
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UNESCO offers a broad range of work opportunities. Posts in the Organization are mainly filled by people in occupations linked to the Organization
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