Can I Turn My Gap Year Into an Opportunity?
So you’ve decided to take a gap year but are still debating on how best to spend your time? Should you stuff your Havaianas, fisherman’s pants and malaria tablets into an over sized backpack and catch the next flight to Mombassa in order to broaden your cultural horizons? Or should you stay put, pursue that internship at the local newspaper, gain work experience in the health industry or volunteer your time in order to build your CV? Why not satisfy that wanderlust whilst gaining invaluable work experience by turning your gap year into the opportunity of a lifetime?
Every year thousands of young adults like yourself take a year out for reasons as multitudinous and varied as the ‘gappers’ themselves. Some of the choices which face young adults include: should you volunteer to improve the lives of those less fortunate or take some time off from the path to higher education? Gain invaluable work experience in order to improve your prospects of future employment and bolster your CV or just leave it all behind in order to explore and interact with cultures far removed from your own? Who says you have to make a choice? Why can’t you gain some work experience whilst scratching those itchy feet, and pursue your personal development whilst lending a helping hand to those in need? Offering over 500 different projects in over 32 countries worldwide, i-to-i can help you to achieve it all and turn your gap year into an opportunity.
Ever fancied working as a sports coach? Why not teach soccer skills to young boys in Jaipur? Want to gain some work experience in the health industry? Whatever your level of experience in health and medicine, your time and skills are all that is needed to make a difference to the lives of people in developing countries such as Ecuador, Ghana and Honduras. Or what about caring for young underprivileged children? Then the Hatunsonqo orphanage in Cusco, Peru needs to you to help feed, clothe and teach English to the children.
No matter your experience, rhyme, reason or drive, you CAN make the most of your gap year, improve your chances of employment, broaden your cultural horizons and pursue your altruistic goals, in an effort to turn your gap year into an opportunity.
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