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Jobs for Technology Professionals at Planet Recruit - Planet Recruit features thousands of jobs including IT, engineering, telecomms, media and management vacancies from the UK's top recruitment agencies. You can seach and apply online or submit your CV so that recruitment agencies can match you to jobs. Source: Featured Site

Milkround Online - Find gap year jobs for Graduates - Milkround Online brings students and graduates together with fantastic employment opportunities. The website provides an efficient information and search service for candidates and employers alike. Sectors covered include Engineering, IT, Finance, Consulting, Advertisimg and Sales. Source: Featured Site

Looking for gap year jobs? Try Workcircle! - Workcircle is a search engine for jobs indexing vacancies from job boards, agencies and employers across the UK. Find the gap year job you want, fast. They search the UK's jobs sites so you don't have to! Source: Featured Site

4yyyy for gap year - Check out 4yyyy UK search engine for gap year. Find leading employers specialising in gap year jobs. Source: Featured Site

Gap Year Jobs - Directory of employment opportunities particularly suitable for students taking a gap year. Source: Jobsword

World Service Enquiry - Information and advice about working overseas and at home for peace, justice and development. Source: Jobsword

Ayearout.com - Gap year travel options for students or persons wanting to take a year off to explore. Highlights various volunteer, learning, and touring organisations available. Source: Jobsword

Volunteer Africa - Directory and information on voluntary and gap-year projects in Africa. Source: Jobsword

Go Gap - Guide for anyone thinking of using a GAP year to travel. Details the adventures of four students as they carried out budget travels around the world. Messages boards and country guides. Source: Jobsword

The Gap Year Guidebook - Provides information relating to work and travel opportunities for students during this period.

If you are travelling to an exotic destination in your gap year, like India, Thailand, S Asia or to Europe or the USA then this site can be useful. There is a lot of info about Au pairing jobs in France, Italy, Germany or Spain as well as aupair jobs in Austria, Sweden and Greece. If youre a qualified instructor in skiing, kayaking, diving, football or any other activity sport there are many potential jobs all around the world where you can use your skills. Skiing jobs in European resorts as well as the US, Canada and New Zealand. There are ski resorts all over the world, including Afica and in the foothills of the Himalayas. Diving jobs and water sports jobs are available for gap year students. Football jobs in Africa and Latin America plus football academies in India looking for help to spread the message of the beautiful game. Working in Europe in countries such as France, Italy and Germany offers endless work possibilities from fruit picking to hospitality and tourism. Help is often wanted for leading nature trips to teaching English. Some non-EU members need work permits so you should check the regulations in the country you want to visit. There is good information for gap year jobs in the UK, ranging from a journalist, doctor or barrister to fruit picking and working on farms. Source: Jobsword

The Site - Gap Years - Gap year information from the Duke of Edinburgh's award site. Source: Jobsword

GapwWork - Casual work abroad for backpackers, travellers and students in Australia and Europe as well as Ibiza. Information on working holiday visas, tours, travel insurance, flights and health matters. Source: Jobsword

Guardian Unlimited - Gap years - Informational resource on most aspects of a gap year. Source: Jobsword

Springboard Gap Year Information - Travel advice, the advantages and disadvantages of gap years, and information on potential destinations. Source: Jobsword

Voluntary Work Information Service - Information on volunteer work opportunities in over 150 countries worldwide in the environmental and humanitarian sectors.

Find interesting info on 1000s of local grassroots volunteer NGOs in places like Latin America to the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, Europe and the CIS and North America. Find out about rural community development projects in India, Nepal and Bangladesh or working with street children in the slums of Bangkok. Teaching English in China and Japan or gap year experience doing coral reef surveying in Fiji and the Philippines. Info on planting trees and organic agriculture in Indonesia and New Zealand or working on national parks in the Australian bush. Other opportunities include working on game reserves in South Africa and Botswana, providing medical assistance to children with HIV in Kenya or teaching English in Ghana and Cameroon. Construction and archaeological digs for gap students in Morocco and Israel to volunteering on a cultural musical project with the Masaai in Tanzania and with the local populations in Guinea and Madagascar. There are lots of opportunities for gap students such as working with street children in Guatemala and Honduras and helping to conserve the cloudforest in Costa Rica or flora and fauna surveying in the Ecuadorian Andean paramo. Teaching English jobs in Jamaica and Mexico, assisting scientists with whale shark researching in Belize or working as a human rights observer in Colombia. Other examples of gap year working holidays for students include working as a nurse with orphans in Romania and Albania, archaeological digs in France and Spain or jobs helping to restore the Scottish Caledonian Forest in Scotland. Aassisting scientists with researching whales in Tenerife, sea turtles in Greece and wolves in Russia or perhaps ethnomusicology studies in Russia, TEFL training in Prague and Barcelona and organic agricultural projects in Portugal, Czech Republic and Ireland. In north America there have been gap year jobs for working in Camphill communities with children and adults, volunteering in National Parks and Nature Reserves in the US and Canada, social work with the First Nation Peoples in Northern Canada and organic agricultural projects in Canada. Locate information about teaching French in the USA to tracking bears in the Canadian Rockies. Source: Jobsword

BBC News - Talking Point - Are gap years a waste of time? - Discussion on the pro's and con's of gap years. Source: Jobsword

Payaway - News, features and listings for finding paid and voluntary seasonal jobs abroad, including tourism, childcare, camp, kibbutz and winter jobs. Source: Jobsword

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