Gap Year Travel Blog | Gap Year Jobs, Programs and Voluteering

Are you thinking in taking a career break? Well, you definitely have a good option because more and more students now choose to take gap year from education or a career break. In a personal level, a career break will enables graduates in taking some period out from their study in order to gain experiences that cannot be taught and learned inside the classroom. Gap year offer the opportunity in learning a foreign language and experiences and travel new cultures, able to gain new friends from different backgrounds and at the same time gain a work experience. In gaining an opportunity year out, most of them will return home motivated to take on further study and continue in building their careers and feeling refreshed. Gap year in the professional level is a significant opportunities in adding new skills and build a resume.

A CIEE gap year program offer a gap year abroad to college-bound to high school graduates a chance to obtain a broader global viewpoint, gain self-knowledge and foster independence. CIEE gap year programs abroad offer an accelerated language development through classes and a foreign community immersion and an opportunity to stay with the host family and teaching English abroad experience or going to participate in a volunteer work which is organized at the local community. The CIEE gap year program includes the weekend and day excursions of historical and cultural significance that provides an important measurement to understand the host country. Gap Year Programs abroad in CIEE offers go abroad in Dominican Republic, Costa Rica Internship, Chile and Spain, France and Japan. A common activity in CIEE gap year programs are meals and housing with families, arrival orientation, support and supervision throughout your stay, community service and English teaching internship, excursions and trips to important cultural and historical sites and 24 hour emergency support.

Gap Year Program is an opportunity to students who are in search to explore new vistas, stretch intellectually, how to become a responsible citizen and develop leadership. This also serves as a preparation on your stage in building your career horizons. CIEE gap year programs are one of the several programs that offer best and complete excursions on your year-out.