Since 2004 it has been possible to travel through Canada, the second-largest country in the world, within a year and pay your way with small jobs along the way. That makes it easy to experience the beautiful country not just as a tourist, but also to get to know the Work and Travel program in a different way through jobs.

Requirements and Options of the Work and Travel Canada Program

It's well worth taking the opportunity not only to earn money but also to experience the country and its people, and to take on the culture, the language, the food, the nature and its challenges. It will also demand quite a lot of you. The following are required, but also trained better along the way:

  • Perseverance
  • Flexibility
  • Foreign language skills
  • Organizational talent
  • Tolerance
  • Adaptability
  • Open-mindedness
  • Intercultural understanding

Work and Travel Canada - Experiences

A stay on Work and Travel Canada certainly also helps you gain clarity about your own culture, background and worldview in general. Canada also has the advantage that you can expand and deepen your English as well as your French language skills, depending on which region you do Work and Travel Canada in.

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Job offers come in the form of internships, which give you the chance to get a taste of various industries. Most of these offers can be found in the larger cities, so after work it's easy to dive into the "hustle and bustle" for shopping or nightlife, and to take trips into the country's breathtaking nature in your free time.

Another option in the Work and Travel Canada program is working in a hotel. You gain interesting impressions and get to know hotel guests from all over the world.

Summer camps are also always looking for help. Besides language skills, social skills are also developed.
A stay on a farm is somewhat more unusual. Completely opposite to the other options and at times physically very demanding. Perfect for people who like working outdoors and are looking for the opposite of office and school routines.

Work and Travel Canada - Costs and Organization

You can hire an agency or organize everything yourself. The advantages of an agency for a Work and Travel Canada stay are the excellent support and the fact that you save yourself all the paperwork. Of course this "all-inclusive service" is more expensive than if you take care of the paperwork and everything else yourself. However, you have a competent partner at your side who also supports you if something doesn't work out as it should or if problems come up. What costs you'll face can only be found out individually.

In any case you need a Working Holiday visa. As a compromise, you could have a professional visa service handle this and take care of the rest yourself. The visas are in high demand and are issued by lottery. If you're between 18 and 35 years old, nothing stands in the way of signing up for this program. You also have to show a return flight ticket and sufficient financial means (approx. CAD 2,500) to cover your living expenses.