Useful Tips and Advice

Since March 18, 2020, Working Holiday permit holders willing to go to Canada to activate their permit must find a job in Canada from their home country.

The Guide to a Working Holiday in Canada gives you a very comprehensive overview of the Workinf Holiday permit, trip planning, options to consider and more.

If you’re about to embark on a WHV adventure, read these common challenges many travellers face and learn how to overcome them.

For travellers, volunteering is often a chance to participate in a cultural exchange, enjoy new professional experiences and stretch travel funds!

Technically, anyone who carries belongings in a backpack is a “backpacker.” However, not everyone embraces the lifestyle...

Hitchhiking is legal in New Zealand and the country is relatively safe, so in a way, yes, it’s a good place for hitchhiking. Read more...

In my hostel, we’re connecting, bonding over the days spent living together as if we were roommates sharing a big house. Read more...

If you’re planning to gain valuable international work experience during your WHV adventure, find out what your foreign degrees are comparable to in Canada.

I’ve been hearing that “running away isn’t a solution” and that “it never solves anything” for over a decade. Well, I beg to differ.

Free download of the Guide to a Working Holiday Visa in Canada. 300 pages to plan your WHV in Canada! Now available both in English and French.

Our Guide to Canada (free!) is 300 pages of information: applying for a WHP in Canada, employment, accommodation...

Lyon is a very dynamic place and an exciting base city for the WHV holders who chose France as their destination. It's the “world capital of gastronomy”...

Working Holiday Visa holders are often interested in working a French ski resort, where seasonal employees are often needed in winter.

The WHV experience is part of me, it made me who I am. I wouldn’t be the woman I am today without these two trips (New Zealand and Chile).

Going home was also a bittersweet experience. And people kept on asking me the same question over and over again: “so, when is your next trip?”

As a solo traveller, I was the main character of my very own “Bildungsroman” and my working holiday visa experience was “the best year of my life”.

Registration of Canadians Abroad is a free service that allows the Government of Canada to notify you in case of an emergency abroad or a personal emergency at home.

My WHV experience helped me grow as a person, I have contacts in several countries as well as precious memories and I discovered a beautiful country...

I’m looking for more freedom, for challenges, good and bad experiences... I’m looking for a way to never have to sigh, “I wish I had” or “if I had known”.

I often daydream about my year in Australia, remembering places, people, anecdotes and sounds. These memories are very emotional...

Patsilla is a Montrealer who spent a year in France on a WHV! She tells us about her life in Paris, her job search during her WHV in France