Ski Chalet Jobs
Ski chalet jobs are a popular way to earn money, experience life in a winter resort, and have great access to skiing and snowboarding. There is some hard work involved, and often unsociable hours, but you should still get enough free time to make the most of the surrounding mountains and snow.
The staff needed to run a ski chalet will cover a wide range of jobs, including chalet cooks, cleaners, and hospitality or hosts. Chalets vary in size, catering for just a few people to several dozen and the bigger the chalet, the more staff they will need to run it so you could be on your own, or often as a couple, where you will do both cooking and cleaning, or else you could be part of a larger team of chalet staff.
What is involved
Starting early in the morning, you may be required to see to breakfast. Holiday makers with a long day on the slopes ahead of them are going to need a lot of fuel so dishing out a few bowls of cocoa pops probably isn’t going to cut the mustard. After breakfast you are going to be cleaning and perhaps getting everything ready for the evening meals. If you are working on the catering side you will have to spend some of your time shopping for ingredients, especially with the smaller chalets, you will have to do all the budgeting and shopping to make sure nobody goes hungry. And the last thing you want is a ski chalet full of hungry snowboarders!
If you are on the chalet host side of the job, you will have the changeover day to deal with, which means cleaning the chalet from top to bottom, between guests departing and new guests arriving. Unless the company you are working for is quite big, they probably won’t have their own reps, so that could be your job too. You may be responsible for meeting guests and getting them settled in resort. But other than shopping for supplies and changeover days, you can expect the middle of your day to be mostly leisure time. All we would say is take care if you plan to do some skiing. If we had a pound for every time we had an advertiser call us to re-advertise a vacancy because one of their chalet staff had broken a limb.
Obviously not every employer is the same, so this should just be taken as a general guide to ski chalet jobs. Finally, in the evening you will either be cooking or serving meals to the guests, clearing up at the end of the meal, and setting your alarm clock for breakfast the following morning.
Ski Chalet Jobs Available
 Chalet Hosts/ Couples Country: Europe Exciting opportunity to work in Europe for the 2011/2012 Ski Season. The snow is falling and the chalets are starting to get busy which means there are only a few jobs left. Give yourself the best chance of securing one of those remaining jobs, or line yourself up as a replacement for any dropouts.....[more] |