Live, Work & Travel in France
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Employers, Agencies & Placement Services
Ski Total - A catered chalet specialist operating in Austria, France, Switzerland and Canada.
Ski-Val - An independent family business specialising in skiing holidays to Courchevel and Val d'Isere.
Ski World - Opportunities for chalet girls and boys.
Snowbizz - A small independent family specialist operating in Puy St Vincent. Their child care programme includes a children's ski school.
Snowcoach - Employs around 90 employees in the French Alps and Austrian Tirol.
Snowlife (Jersey) Ltd - Ski jobs in France. Recruits chalet girls, nannies and au pairs.
Snowline - Ski tour operator providing luxury chalet holidays in the French Alps.
Snow Safaris - Adventure ski and snowboarding company. No employment information available on site.
Stanford Skiing - A small family run company based in Megeve for 17 years. They employ 13 staff in resort ranging from managers to chalet girls. Current vacancies are advertised on their site.
Sunsail - Sailing jobs in Corsica.
Supertravel - Large winter tour operator.
TJM Adventure - Group adventure holidays to France, Spain and Cornwall. Staff should be available between May and September.
Tops Travel - Independent tour operator specialising in ski and snowboard holidays in France. Their winter recruitment requirements include chalet staff, hotel staff, chefs, reps, bar staff and porters. EU nationals only.
Transfer Intelligence - Work in the French Alps for Transfer Intelligence, specialists in airport to resort transfers throughout Europe.
Translation Central - French language translations. They employ translators too.
Venue Holidays - Family run company offering self-drive holidays with fully-equipped tents and mobile-homes on sites throughout France, Spain and Italy. They employ Campsite Couriers to assist with the running and maintenance of sites and units. Must be out-going, fit and able to work as a team-member or on own initiative. Knowledge of a major European language helpful but not essential. Season runs from March to October, minimum period 2 months. Wages £100 per week.
Village Camps - International summer camp programmes in France, England, Austria and Switzerland.
Williams Holidays - Family budget holidays in France and Spain.
YSE Limited - YSE is the biggest specialist chalet operator in Val d'Isère, France requiring a team of qualified chefs, keen cooks and assistants to run chalets from 4 to 60 guests, from November to May. Ski 6 days a week. British passport holders only.
Employment Resources
Advice, Expat Info & Useful Sites for Finding Work
Base Camp - Run ski and snowboard instructor courses in Meribel, Whistler and Verbier. The courses include freestyle, racing and freeride training as well as first aid courses, avalanche courses and ski and snowboard tuning clinics. Base Camp aim their courses at those looking for a career change, on a gap year or taking time out from work.
Chamonix.net - French ski resort. Includes information about the local bar scene including addresses and telephone numbers.
Chamonix - Resort information.
Courchevel - Ski resort.
FUSAC - A bi weekly contact magazine for Americans in France with information about housing and employment. The website gives subscription and advertising information only.
Icicles - Private catered chalets. Site includes a workers guide to La Tania.
International Centre of Excellence for Snowsport Instructors (ICE) - For Gap ski instructor courses in Val d'isere. BASI grade 3 qualifications in 10 weeks.
keljob.com - Search engine (in French) of over 160 job sites.
Meribel - Ski resort.
Meribel - Resort information.
Meribel-Unplugged - A complete and independent guide to skiing and boarding in Meribel and the three Valleys. Written by local seasonaires.
Sports-hiver.com - A ski portal in France. One of the forums, I'm told, is dedicated to jobs in French ski resorts. In French.
Val d'Isere - Ski resort.
Valdinet.com - Resort information for Val d'Isere. Includes a job finder.
Verbinet.com - Resort information for Verbier. Includes a job finder.
Well Seasoned - A chalet cookery course which takes place in the summer months in Tignes, France. The course is a week long residential where you learn to cook in a real chalet environment, and make the most of the activities on offer in resort such as skiing on the glacier, hiking, mountain biking, tennis, basketball and volleyball.
Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Amis de Chevreaux Chatel - A three week international workcamp revolving around the restoration of the medieval castle at Chevreaux. A small fee towards registration and insurance is required.
An Englishman and his Castle - An English couple renovating a small medieval castle in France are offering free accommodation including all meals in return for five hours of work, five days a week. Types of work range from painting, general laboring, woodworking, plastering, all general renovation, and they are also looking to develop a large organic vegetable patch in the field behind the castle. Vacancies throughout the year.
Brigitte Bardot Foundation - Become a volunteer inspector checking for mistreatment of animals.
Challenge Educational Services - Challenge offers a wide range of French Language programmes based in France. These vary from Academic Year / Semester programmes at the Sorbonne, to A Level revision courses in Bordeaux. Also offers adult and under 18 programmes.
Club du Vieux Manoir - Since 1952 the Club du Vieux Manoir has grouped together young people who want to spend some of their spare time doing rescue and restoration work on ancient monuments and sites. Accommodation, under canvas, food costs and a small membership and insurance fee is required.
Emmaus International - Help fight poverty by taking part in international workcamps in France and elsewhere in Europe. Travel costs there and back, medical and other personal costs are covered by the participants. Food, accommodation and insurance against accidents is provided by the organisers.
Euro Practice - Internships, language courses, work and study programmes and au pair positions for European students. Offices in France, England, Germany and Spain.
Inter Sejours - Au pairs, work placements and voluntary work.
La Giraudiere - Offers an inexpensive study in France programme, property sales, gite holidays and a working holiday.
Mast International - US based organisation. Voluntary work in various countries, mostly Europe, in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
WWOOF France - Discover France by volunteering on organic farms.
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