Live, Work & Travel in Switzerland & Austria
Employment
Employers, Agencies & Placement Services
Alpenrider - Alpenrider is run by boarders, skiers and mountain people who love the mountains. They offer "a young persons chalet" in Kitzbuehel complete with its own bar in the chalet and a fun easy going atmosphere that revolves around cleaniness and customer support.
Crystal Holidays - Offers a variety of ski holidays and employ over 1,000 staff in Europe and North America. The majority of staff are required from the end of November to the middle of April, but some additional staff may be required once the season has started.
Esprit Holidays - Winter work for British passport holders in both Austria and Switzerland. Pocket money wage plus lift pass, ski hire, accommodation, uniform and medical insurance are provided.
Equity Travel - Reps are employed in Austria.
Eurocamp - Friendly, helpful employees sought for the summer.
First Choice - Very large tourist operator that recruits for both summer and winter.
Flexiski - Specialise in tailor made chalet and hotel ski breaks for both private and corporate clients. Part of First Choice group.
Free Radicals - Looking for chalet couples/hosts, chefs and hotel managers to work for UK independent ski companies. If they cannot find you a position they will advise you on your best option to take. To register is free and can be done on the internet then you can leave the hard work to them.
French Au Pairs - Short and long term au pair placements in Switzerland.
Inghams - Large employer of ski personnel. Recruits from April to October for winter jobs.
Mark Warner - Recruit over 1,500 staff for the Alps and the Med each year. Applicants must be over 19 and hold an EU passport.
Natives- Very useful. Lots of skiing links, including employment, and an offbeat look at working in the Alps.
NBV Leisure - A specialist tour operator, providing holidays to the French, Swiss and Austrian Alps, both in the winter and summer.
Neilson Ski - Neilson is dedicated to providing active holidays in the winter with ski and snowboard programmes and have over two decades of experience in operating active holidays worldwide. In Austria, Neilson are active in the following resorts: Kaprun, Ellmau & Scheffau - Ski Welt, Kitzbuhel / Kirchberg, Soll, Niederau & Oberau, Saalbach / Hinterglemm, Zell am See, Mayrhofen, St Anton, Solden, Zell am Ziller and Obergurgl/Hochgurgl.
On the Piste - Independent ski holiday company with positions in Switzerland.
Perfect Way - A Swiss agency happy to place British girls.
Oxford Ski Company - Luxury catered chalet holidays in the Swiss and French Alps.
Petite Pumpkin Au Pair Agency - Au pair agency specialising in finding jobs in England and Switzerland for au pairs aged 18 to 27 from Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. Selected candidates must provide references and a police criminal record check.
PGL Ski Europe - Recruits staff to lead school ski trips to Austria and Switzerland.
Powder Byrne International - Now have an online job application and job description section. Vacancies for summer and winter work.
Powder White - Chalet operators in France, Switzerland and Austria.
Scott Dunn - Offers a selection of catered chalets and hotels in Arlberg, Courchevel 1850, Meribel, St Moritz, Val d'Isere and Zermatt.
Simply Ski - Small specialist ski company offers high quality chalet and hotel holidays to Verbier in Switzerland and St. Anton in Austria.
Ski Armadillo - A small independent company run by experienced skiers that have spent many seasons in Verbier.
SkiPlan Travel - School skiing specialists and family holidays to the Austrian and Swiss Alps.
Ski Total - A catered chalet specialist operating in Austria, France, Switzerland and Canada.
Ski-Val - An independent family business specialising in skiing holidays to St Anton in Austria.
Snowcoach - Employs around 90 employees in the French Alps and Austrian Tirol.
Supertravel - Large winter tour operator in Austria and Switzerland.
Swiss Travel Service - Summer and winter tour operator, part of the Cresta Holidays group. Full training is provided but language skills, especially German or Italian or French would be advantageous.
Village Camps - Summer camps in Austria and Switzerland.
WWOOF Austria - Working vacations on organic farms in Austria. In German and English.
Employment Resources
Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work
Innsbruck Tourist Office - Austrian winter resort.
Kitzbuhel - Tourist and other information for the Austrian winter resort.
St. Johann Information Office - Tourist office for Austrian winter resort.
Thealps.com - News, resorts and links.
Wildschoenau Tourist Office - Tourist office for Austrian winter resort.
Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
Euro Practice - Placements for European students in Austria. Offices in France, England, Germany and Spain.
International Conference Volunteers - Voluntary work assisting with conferences available in Switzerland.
Landdienst-Zentralstelle - Agricultural vacation work in the farming cantons of Switzerland. Details in English, French, Italian and German.
Living in Switzerland & Austria
Real Estate and Resources for Staying Long Term
About Austria - Provides a list of estate agents in the living in Austria section plus travel information and city guides.
Switzerland is Yours - Information on living in Switzerland, Swiss banking and a travel guide.
Travelling in Switzerland & Austria
Accommodation & Getting Around
Alpbach - Austrian village surrounded by 160 km of well marked hiking trails and 45 km of family friendly ski runs.
Swiss Backpacker News - Low cost travel guide to Switzerland.
Swiss Federal Railways - Features an online timetable, fare finder and ticket ordering.
Tourist Office Obergurgl-Hochgurgl
Other
Culture, News...
ABC-Zentrum Sprachinstitut Vienna, Austria - German courses in Vienna.
Alpha Sprachinstitut Austria - Learn German in Vienna. Intensive German courses, cultural programmes, accommodation. Following the system of the Goethe-Institute, courses prepare for internationally recognized certificates.
Austro Search - In English and German.
DeutschAkademie - German Course Vienna at DeutschAkademie. Intensive language training with modern and communication oriented methods in small groups of five to nine students.
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