So the most important thing about a gap year is funding it. Now one or two of you might be lucky to have pretty well off parents that don't mind paying for it or helping you pay for it, but for the rest of you average Joe's you're going to have to do what the rest of the human race does and work.
Now this can either be a part time job, a weekend job or a full time job like mine.
Being from a small sea-side town the only jobs in my town are waitressing and being a barista or a bar tender, so I'm a waitress. Obviously the jobs that are available change with each town and another important thing is how far are you willing to travel? Because the further you're willing to travel the more jobs there will be that are available to you. Now everything is online these days so there will be plenty of job websites for you to search and upload your CV to, but sometimes the best thing to do is to print of about a dozen or so CV's and go into town to all the different shops, resturants and pubs and ask them if they're hiring or if you can leave your CV with them and if they can give it to the manager for you.
So obviously this means that you are going to have to write a CV if you haven't already. For those of you that haven't already done this then I'll explain with a CV is and how you write one. And for those of you that have already done this my advice to you would be to go over it again and update it or see if you can improve it anyway, because as Draco Malfoy once said in A Very Potter Musical "There's always room for improvement"
Moving on
A CV ( or Curriculum Vitae) is something that you hand in when you are applying for a job. It tells your prospective employer your education, qualifications, skills, work experience (you can include summer jobs and its okay to make it sound slightly more impresive as long as you don't exhaggerate to much. for instance if you worked for a family member or family friend one year dont say i worked for two weeks last summer as a ___, say I spent last summer working as a _____, this included, then list what you're responsabilities were), what volunteering and clubs you've done ( I'd suggest including your roles in the clubs you have done, how long you did it for and what it include(s)/ed e.g captain of the (insert the name of the sport) team, guides/scouts, debate, theatre etc) Hobbies and interests (especially if they relate to the job you're applying for), as well as your contact details, birthday and references. So it should look something Like
Name:
Age/Date of Birth
Contact Details:
email
mobile number
home number
Qaulifications
Volunteering/Clubs
Skills (this is stuff like teamwork, puctuality, communication and leadership. and reme,ber to give an example of when you have used or developed this skill. It is NOT how many seasons of your favourite show you can marathon in a day or how many fandom refrences you can make or how amazing your eyeliner is.)
Work Experience
References (you can use teachers but not family members, well i don't think you can).
Once you've written your CV I'd recommend getting a family member, your parents, a friend or a teacher to look over it to make sure it all makes sense and to see if there's anything that they think you should change or add or if there's anything they think that you can do to improve it, even if its just changing the font or the layout.
