7 Steps to Having the Travel Job of Your Dreams - Travel Jobs Tips

Getting a travel job is not hard. In fact, its easy and getting a travel job can be one of the most exciting times in ones life. There are definitely steps you need to follow if you want to land a great travel job instead of just taking what ever you can get.

I have compiled a 7-step process in the past 8 years of working travel jobs and I have land every travel job I've wanted when I follow these travel jobs steps. Most importantly, I have loved every travel job since then.

Travel Job Step #1 - Write down your skills and passions.

The first travel job step is to get a piece of paper and write down your skills and your passions. Take about 10 minutes on both topics. Remember this is the base, it's really important you are honest with yourself and you really define what is it that makes you happy and feeling at your best. Once you have your two lists move on to travel jobs Step #2.

Travel Job Step #2 - Match up and pull out the top 3

You are now going to match up the passions with the skills. NOTE: Focus on passions more then skills, you can always learn a skill. Don't under rate yourself; every single job has a human being with the exact same genetic make up as you. None of us are super hero, you can have any job you want. After it's all through you should have a list of three travel jobs that you would LOVE to have.

Travel Jobs Step #3 - Find the top 5-10 jobs in the areas to want to travel to

The goal here is to be active instead of re-active. Meaning, don't have the "take what ever you can get" mentality. Instead, take what you have defined as the ideal job and find that position. I do this by taking the places in the world that I've always wanted to go to and then search for the keywords of my ideal travel job. The key is to not search for the travel job but to search for the service or involvement that travel job would offer. For Example: If its glacier guiding in Alaska, I would write "Alaska glacier tours."

Travel Job Step #4 - Write down the 7 most important qualities

Now you should be looking at 5-10 of your top dream travel jobs. If you look at them and get an overwhelming sensation of excitement then you have a good list. If you don't get that then keep searching. The next step is to search through the companies and combine the 7 most important qualities that company is going to want in an employee. Try to make half of them obvious qualities such as; easy to get along with, reliable etc... and the other half that is specific such as high level of endurance, certifications etc...

Travel Jobs Step #5 - Create specific resume, contact and submit to ALL

Your travel job resume should have 5 things:

1) A feeling about who you are
2) experience in specific job
3) qualifications
4) 2-3 references to contact
5) hit hard on the seven qualities that the company will find of high value.

Do all you can to contact the hirer and talk to them before submitting your resume. You goal is to get along, if you can make them laugh and then submit. A small conversation will create a connection above other applicants. Now you want to submit to them all at once so the opportunities will come to you all at once. When that happens your attitude changes and you come across as a more desirable person to want to have. If you only have one travel job you are going for then you are going to naturally come across more needy.

Travel Job Step #6 - Questions - Qualify - Questions

Qualifying is the key to separating yourself from the majority of people. This is an area most people fail when it comes to getting travel jobs. Qualifying is the best way to show that you have value to offer and it's also important you don't get caught up in the wrong job. When you qualify you become the buyer and they become the seller, that is a much better position to be in.

Travel Jobs Step #7 - Take the travel job and have fun.

This is a hard step for some. Some people can't seem to let go and give themselves the experience. They keep making up excuses to why they can't go yet and after a while that travel job excitement is numbed by the day-to-day routine and the opportunity fads away.

If you get a feeling of excitement when you think about doing that travel job then do it. That's your signal, let that be your guide. There was a study done with old people and their fulfillment in life and one of the questions was:

"What do wish you would have done when you were younger?"

The #1 answer was, "I wish I would have taken more risks"

It's your life, and only you can choose how you live it.

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Can You Really Travel for FREE?

There are very important reasons why the Travel Industry is looking for reliable Travel Coordinators. One of the major reasons is ‘International Travel Safety’ has become a major concern.

The Travel Industry has long since provided a way to help Americans Travel more safely. Again, this is an ancient old method of travel. Even the wagon trains traveling west were not exempt from this method.

Group Travel

Agencies are looking for Travel Addicts; I mean Coordinators all the time. I guess you are wondering why a Travel Agency would be looking for Travel Coordinators? Most people would say that would be the job of a Travel Agent. Wrong! Most Travel Agents do not travel that often. They are busy booking travel for their clients. They loose money every time they leave their office or computer. Its the Travel Coordinators that travel often.

Travel addicts are the people who arrange their life to accommodate last minute travel. Travel addicts usually will pay the rent or mortgage, however the 401K or any savings or investment of any kind is subject to finance travel at any given time.

A Group Travel Coordinator would have the following attributes: commitment, loves travel, likes people, have confidence in marketing themselves and their travel destination, can give attention to detail, love to coordinate, and can use common sense, then you qualify to Travel FREE.

This opportunity works out best when you start out as a hobby and turn it into a part-time job then a full-time business. It is not necessary to re-invent the wheel - do what others have done before you. I know one retired man who started out selling an exotic travel party in the Caribbean each year. Word of mouth took over, because people really enjoyed themselves, and now he does not have to work a 9 to 5 job. The commission from booking 300 to 500 people a year into a 5 star resort on the islands each year, pays off BIG.

I suppose you are wondering how a Travel Coordinator just starting out travels FREE? Easy, when you book 6 people or 15 people or what ever number the Travel whole seller sets; one person goes FREE.

Example: Say you have 9 people that want to go to China. You have a mark-up of 15% on the wholesale price, plus you get one free hotel and air if 6 people sign-up. Your mother and father, sister and cousin, your girlfriend and her husband want to go and the lady at the church wants to go. And when another lady at the church found out from the Pastor that Mrs. J was going, so she decided to go. (Your husband said if he wants to see China he will go to Chinatown!) So you now have 8 people, 9 counting yourself. You get one free travel pass and you can decided to lower your package price at the last minute because you did not need the extra 15% mark-up, or you can keep it for any emergency during the trip or you can use it to market your next trip. It’s up to you!

Travel Coordinator Trivia. If you can see a problem already with the above travel group, then you truly understand Group Travel. Think about how you would handle the above situation BEFORE a problem occurs.

This article was written by Cassandra Ingraham, webmaster and Travel Coordinator for http://www.travel360degrees.com

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