What’s a Pub Work gap year?
Are you ready to live and work within an inconic UK pub establishment, while gaining valuable work experience and making lifelong friends? Your UK pub placement will see you work in a pub, or many pubs, to fund your year of travel! You'll be working full-time hours of approximately 38-48 per week and earning anything between 250-325 pounds per week! Plus your food is either heavily discounted or included in your board! You'll be able to spend your leisure and travel time more easily between work shifts or pub gigs. UK Pub Co. will help you set up your stay with legitimate and reputable places, or you can take the risk and wing it by yourself if you’re a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of person, if you’re not, enquire with UK Pub Co and we will help you find the perfect pub for you to gap at.
Is it made for me?
If you’re lively, energetic, sociable, outgoing, can have a yarn and pull a beer or serve a table at the same time, then this gap year is for you! The most obvious things are that you will need a qualification such as an RSA (Responsible Service of Alcohol) certificate, and a food service one to match sometimes, which are internationally recognised if you’re going to be serving alcohol and food in a pub overseas. Be sure to check the visa requirements for whatever country you’ll be working and holidaying in too. Some experience and qualifications are preferred for certain kinds of work, but not needed for others.
Apply through Year13 to UK Pub Co and we can arrange all the necessary training requirements before you set off on what's sure to be one fantastic gap year.
What will I do with myself as a pub worker?
Depending on what work you decide to accept, you could be working behind the bar as a bartender, on the floor as a waiter or waitress, in the kitchen as a cook or kitchen hand, as a housekeeper, or any other general pub duties. Shifts will vary from early morning to late night. You can expect to work long hours and be busy with crowds.
Where can I do it?
Europe, especially the UK, are some of the most popular destinations for pub gap year work. Pubs in Britain hire a lot of Australian workers throughout the year, and we mostly have a good reputation as hard workers. Year13 can sort all of this out for you as we guarantee job offers in a pub.
What will I experience as a pub worker?
A realistic idea of what working in hospitality, pubs and clubs, hotels, restaurants and bars is all about. Hard work, long hours, busy crowds, quiet times, meeting new people, parties and nightlife, making lots of friends, freedom and time to explore places.
How is this good for my career?
If you want to break into the hospitality industry at the end of your gap year, working at pubs while travelling will give you experience and qualifications on an international level, which is a bonus when you’re competing for entry level jobs back home, and gives you a head start when it comes to getting basic qualifications.