128: Life skills: How to supercharge them with a working holiday.
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Sponsored by JENZA
Positively life changing is how I would sum up the time I spent working abroad during my gap year. I met people with a completely different world view, different language, and learnt to navigate many challenges alone. It gave me a positive, can-do attitude to life.
Now my teens are 16 and 18, I want to make sure they have the confidence to meet whatever life throws at them head-on. Given my own experience, I'm convinced that a working holiday is an ideal way of giving them the skills they need with an added boost to their 'explorer' mindset.
I’ve already made an episode talking in general about gap years, but I'm still getting a lot of enquiries about specific opportunities, so when JENZA - the earn as you explore youth travel group - offered to sponsor an episode it was an obvious way to get lots of useful tips for us parents.
In this discussion with JENZA’s head of Global Operations, Adam Janaway, he shares:
- The benefits of working abroad, emphasizing skills like responsibility, adaptability, and problem-solving.
- The career advantages of cultural exposure and work experience in foreign settings.
- Three types of work abroad experiences: short-term structured programs, longer-term flexible working holidays, and professional internships.
- His own experiences, including working at a US summer camp and in Canada, and stresses the importance of asking for help and building emotional intelligence.
- Advice for us parents to encourage independence and planning for our children's working holidays.
JENZA: www.jenza.com
GAP YEAR EPISODE: https://www.teenagersuntangled.com/gap-years-what-is-a-gap-year-and-should-our-teens-take-one/
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