Where to Find Seasonal Work: Every Platform Compared

Last updated: July 2026

Why this page exists

There are dozens of places to find a season, and no single page that lists them all without a sales pitch. Ski boards, yacht crew sites, summer agencies, tour operator careers pages, general job boards and local-language platforms all overlap, and most people end up using several without ever seeing the full picture. This page catalogues them by category, notes what each one costs and how hiring actually works, and is kept current for 2026.

Every fact here has been checked against each platform's own website. Where a figure could not be confirmed, it has been left out rather than guessed. Prices, plans and vacancy counts change through the year, so always confirm the current terms on the platform itself before you rely on them.

At a glance

The quick comparison below covers the purpose-built platforms. Tour operators, general job boards and local-language sites are different animals and are covered in their own sections further down. Every board listed is free for candidates, so the real differences are what employers pay and how you actually get hired.

All-season platforms

These sites are not tied to one season, so they are a sensible first stop whether you want a winter in the Alps, a summer in the Med, or both.

PeakWave

PeakWave is free for both seasonaires and employers, permanently, with no placement fees and no subscriptions. Instead of writing a fresh application for every advert, you build one profile that covers ski, yacht, watersports, summer and festival work, and employers browse and message you directly. It also bundles live conditions tools and a courses directory, so the same account that helps you find work helps you plan the season once you are there. Create a free profile.

SeasonWorkers

SeasonWorkers has been running since 2001 and is one of the longest-established seasonal boards in the UK. It is free for job seekers, who apply directly to the companies advertising, and it spans ski, summer, summer-camp, hospitality and TEFL roles alongside courses and placements worldwide. Employers pay to advertise their vacancies.

Anywork Anywhere

Anywork Anywhere has also been going since 2001 and focuses on jobs abroad and seasonal work across Europe and further afield. It is free for candidates to register and apply, and the site is available in more than ten languages, which makes it useful if you are looking beyond the UK. Employers pay to post listings.

Ski and winter boards

If your heart is set on a winter in the mountains, these ski-specific boards carry far more relevant vacancies than any general site. Applying to two or three at once is standard practice.

Natives

Natives is a long-standing ski-focused job board. It is free for job seekers and explicitly not a recruitment agency: it simply connects employers and season workers directly. Natives also partners with SkiJobs.com, ResortWork and AdventureWork, so a single search surfaces vacancies from across that network.

Ski-Jobs.co.uk

Ski-Jobs.co.uk is a UK-based winter jobs board carrying several hundred vacancies from dozens of ski employers at the peak of the recruitment season. Candidates apply directly and can set up free email job alerts. It covers the Alps plus North America, Japan and New Zealand.

SkiSeasonaires

SkiSeasonaires is a newsletter-led ski jobs board that publishes regular roundups of resort vacancies across Europe and beyond, from instructor and chalet roles to hospitality and maintenance. It is free to browse and subscribe to.

BestSkiJobs

BestSkiJobs is a straightforward ski jobs board, free for candidates, with its busiest recruitment window running from roughly June to November. Alongside vacancies it lists training-course providers such as instructor and chalet-cookery courses, which is handy if you are still building qualifications.

Snow Season Central

Snow Season Central pairs detailed resort and country guides with a job board, covering ski destinations across a dozen or more countries. Job search is free for candidates, and it partners with snowsports employers, including a paid instructor internship route through its WE ARE SNO programme.

SkiJobs.com

SkiJobs.com is part of the Natives partner network and lists winter season roles such as chalet hosts, reps and resort staff. As with the rest of that network, you apply directly to the employer.

SeasonalAlps

SeasonalAlps focuses specifically on Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol, matching workers with hotels, farms and hospitality businesses in the mountains, usually with accommodation and meals included. It supports both German and English speakers and runs an active community alongside the listings, which helps if the local language is a barrier.

Yacht crew platforms

Yachting has its own dedicated platforms, and they work differently from resort boards: employers and captains often search for you rather than the other way round. If you are new to it, our guide to yacht crew jobs with no experience explains how to get a first berth.

Yotspot

Yotspot is the leading jobs board in the yachting industry. Crew join and apply for free and can add a short introduction video to their profile; posting a basic job is also free, with paid subscriptions for employers who want to search the crew database directly. Yotspot charges no placement fees and lists well over a hundred thousand crew and shore-based professionals.

Crew4Yachts / Meridian°

Crew4Yachts is the original yacht crew CV database, running since 2004 and now part of the Meridian platform. Crew register for free, while employers pay a single database access fee and hire with no commission or agency fees. It holds tens of thousands of professional crew profiles.

Dockwalk

Dockwalk sits at the heart of the superyacht world, combining a crew jobs section with industry news, career advice and a well-known annual salary guide. It is part of the Boat International media group, so it is as much a place to learn the industry as to find a berth.

Summer and Mediterranean platforms

For land-based summer work in the Med, the all-season boards above are a good start, and these two add depth. Our summer job platforms guide goes deeper on watersports and yacht routes specifically.

YSeasonal

YSeasonal connects candidates with seasonal work across Europe, including Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain and the Netherlands, in both summer and winter. Registration is free, the platform serves candidates who are authorised to work in the EU, and it helps with the paperwork side, such as arranging the documents you need to start.

LeisureJobs

LeisureJobs is a large UK hospitality, leisure and sports jobs board carrying tens of thousands of listings across the UK, Europe and worldwide. It is free for candidates, who can upload a CV and set free job alerts, and it carries plenty of seasonal and resort roles alongside year-round hospitality work.

Tour operators (direct hire)

Some of the biggest seasonal employers barely use the boards at all. These are tour operators who employ resort staff directly and recruit through their own careers pages. Applying to them means applying to the employer, not a marketplace, and the packages usually bundle flights, accommodation, meals and a season pass. For the classic entry role, see our guide to chalet host jobs.

Mark Warner

Mark Warner has run seasonal resorts for over fifty years, hiring for Mediterranean beach resorts in Greece, Turkey and Sardinia in summer and for Tignes in the French Alps in winter. Roles span childcare, watersports, fitness, tennis and hotel operations, and applications typically open from around September.

Neilson

Neilson runs active beach club holidays across Greece, Sardinia, Sicily, Croatia, Turkey and Mauritius, with a summer season running from around April to early November. It hires resort hosts, watersports and activity instructors and childcare staff, with flights, accommodation and meals in the package.

Crystal Ski

Crystal Ski, part of TUI, recruits ski reps and resort administration staff across a wide spread of countries, from Andorra and Austria to Canada and the USA. Applications go through the TUI careers site.

Inghams

Inghams is a large winter employer that recruits chalet, hotel and resort staff, generally from spring through autumn, via its Workaseason careers site. Accommodation is provided as part of the package.

Skiworld

Skiworld hires chalet hosts, housekeepers, managers and maintenance staff for snow-sure resorts in France and Austria. You apply online, with recruitment opening in spring and peaking over the summer for the following winter.

General job boards

The big general job boards are worth a look, but they are not built for seasonal work. Indeed, LinkedIn and Reed all carry seasonal and resort vacancies, especially UK-based hospitality and festival roles, but you will do a lot of filtering and the specialist boards above tend to surface more genuinely seasonal openings. Use the general boards to catch anything the niche sites miss.

Local-language platforms

Once you are set on a specific country, its own-language platforms open up a much bigger pool of jobs, including small employers who never advertise in English. A little translation effort goes a long way.

Alpine Job Recruitment

Alpine Job Recruitment is a small agency that places workers, particularly Polish and other EU nationals, into hospitality, cleaning, driving and resort roles in the French Alps around the Savoie region.

French-language boards

In France, Mon Job à la Montagne lists ski-resort seasonal jobs across every French massif, and the public employment service France Travail carries thousands of winter seasonal vacancies. Both are in French, but they reach employers the English-language boards never touch.

Austrian and Tyrol platforms

In Austria, the official Tyrol tourist board runs a seasonal-work section pointing to hospitality, ski-instruction, mountain-railway and alpine-pasture roles, and SeasonalAlps (above) covers the German-speaking Alps more broadly.

Which should you use?

There is no single winner, and you do not have to pick one. Almost every seasonaire uses several: a specialist board or two for their season, the relevant tour operators' own careers pages, and the local Facebook groups where jobs often appear first. The established boards are free for candidates, so there is no cost to casting a wide net.

What makes PeakWave different is that it is the only option here that is free for both sides with no applications at all. You build one profile that spans ski, yacht, watersports, summer and festival work, and employers come to you. Think of it as the low-effort layer underneath everything else: keep applying on the boards, and let your PeakWave profile work in the background.

For festival work specifically, our guide to festival job platforms breaks down the volunteer schemes and staffing agencies, and if your summer is a UK festival run, the roundups of festival jobs in the UK for 2026 and the UK festivals calendar are the fastest way in.