Best Seasonal Job Sites 2026/27: Free and Paid, Compared

Last updated: 27 September 2026

Why this page exists

There are dozens of places to find a season. 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 was last checked on 27 September 2026.

PeakWave runs one of the platforms on this list, so we have kept the comparison to facts each platform publishes about itself. 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. None of the platforms below said they charge candidates to apply, so the real differences are what employers pay and how you actually get hired.

How we checked

On 27 September 2026 we re-read each platform's own website: its homepage, its pages for employers and, where one exists, its pricing page. "No fee stated" and "No price published" mean the site did not say either way on that day; they do not mean the service is free. A few sites block automated visits, and for those we relied on the platform's own help and product pages as indexed by search engines on the same day. Prices are quoted as the platform showed them, including whether VAT was included. If you run one of these platforms and something here is out of date, email hello@peakwave.co and we will correct it.

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. It is newer than most platforms here and carries fewer live listings than the established boards, so it works best alongside them, as the place where employers can find you. Create a free profile.

SeasonWorkers

SeasonWorkers is a long-running UK seasonal jobs board. Job seekers create a free account and apply directly to the companies advertising, across ski, summer, summer-camp, hospitality and TEFL roles alongside courses and placements worldwide. Employers get a free account and directory entry, then buy advertising credits: on 27 September 2026 one credit cost £54 and a pack of 100 worked out at £12 each (prices exclude VAT), with one credit covering one listing for a month.

Anywork Anywhere

Anywork Anywhere focuses on jobs abroad and seasonal work across Europe and further afield, and the site is available in ten languages, which makes it useful if you are looking beyond the UK. Candidates apply to the employers advertising. Employers buy job credits, from €99 for a single standard credit on 27 September 2026, with discounts on packs.

Vagajobs

Vagajobs lists seasonal and adventure jobs in the United States, Canada and New Zealand, at national parks, ski resorts, summer camps, ranches and lodges, many with housing. Creating an account and browsing jobs is free, and job seekers can pay for optional extras if they want more visibility. Employer plans started at $99 a month when we checked. It is most useful if you have the right to work in one of those countries.

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.

SeasonSeek

SeasonSeek is a newer ski season jobs board covering chalet hosts, ski technicians, instructors and resort crew in the Alps and beyond. It is free to seek work: you save your CV once and apply with a tap, and you can switch on discoverability so employers can find you. On 27 September 2026 it said employers could "post roles free while we launch", with no fees this season.

Natives

Natives is a long-standing ski-focused job board. It is explicitly not a recruitment agency: it simply connects employers and season workers, and you apply directly to each employer. Natives partners with SkiJobs.com, ResortWork and AdventureWork, so a single search surfaces vacancies from across that network, and employers buy their adverts through SkiJobs.com.

Ski-Jobs.co.uk

Ski-Jobs.co.uk is a UK-based winter jobs board in the same partner network. Candidates apply directly to each employer and can set up free email job alerts and a free monthly jobs bulletin.

SkiSeasonaires

SkiSeasonaires is a newsletter-led ski jobs board that publishes weekly roundups of resort vacancies across Europe and beyond, from instructor and chalet roles to hospitality. Its site did not publish employer prices when we checked.

BestSkiJobs

BestSkiJobs is a straightforward ski jobs board whose busiest recruitment window runs from 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. Employers and course providers pay to advertise, with prices given on request.

Snow Season Central

Snow Season Central pairs resort and country guides with a job board. Its job posting form showed no price when we checked. It also promotes the WE ARE SNO instructor internship, which combines training with a guaranteed paid instructor job offer.

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, and employers pay for their adverts.

SeasonalAlps

SeasonalAlps focuses specifically on Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol. Rather than a self-service board, it places workers with selected businesses in the mountains and offers onboarding help.

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 describes itself as the leading jobs board in the yachting industry. Crew sign up for free and register interest in roles. Employers can post a job for free, with paid plans for full CV access and searching the crew database directly. Yotspot said it charges no placement fees when we checked.

Meridian (formerly Crew4Yachts)

Meridian, where the old Crew4Yachts crew CV database now lives, is free for job seekers: you upload your CV and start receiving job alerts. Employers pay for membership, which on 27 September 2026 cost $495 for three months or $1,295 for twelve, including unlimited job posts and crew searches.

Dockwalk

Dockwalk combines a superyacht crew jobs section with industry news, career advice and a salary guide, 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 abroad, in countries including Spain, Croatia, Cyprus, Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Candidates create a free account. Employers can advertise, but no prices were published when we checked.

LeisureJobs

LeisureJobs is a large UK hospitality, leisure and sports jobs board. Candidates can upload a CV and set free job alerts, and it carries plenty of seasonal and resort roles alongside year-round hospitality work. Recruiters buy job adverts, with one product shown at £150 when we checked.

Festival and event crew

Festival work has its own routes, from volunteer schemes to staffing agencies, and our guide to festival job platforms covers them in detail. One newer platform fits this comparison too.

CrewPool

CrewPool is a UK-only list of event and festival workers, from bar shifts to rigging and site crew. It says it is not an employment agency: companies contact workers directly and agree pay with them, and CrewPool "never takes a cut". Joining is free, and on 27 September 2026 it was free for companies too "while we build this".

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 is a long-established holiday operator that hires 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 lists winter seasonal vacancies across France. 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. None of the boards here said they charge candidates to apply when we checked, so there is no cost to casting a wide net.

What makes PeakWave different is that it is free for both sides, permanently, and employers can find and message you without you writing an application for every advert. SeasonSeek and CrewPool were also free for employers when we checked, while they launch. On PeakWave 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.