Working holiday job boards: 9 sites for seasonal work

The jobs advertised to working holiday makers online are mostly seasonal and short-term, posted by farms, wineries, hostels, ski resorts and hospitality venues. The nine platforms below are where those employers advertise in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and Japan, or across several countries at once. Each was checked on 16 October 2026 against its own site for who posts, what it covers and whether job seekers pay.

The list includes platforms that are free for job seekers and carry live listings or employer directories. It excludes volunteer work-exchange sites, which do not offer paid work, and recruitment agencies that charge candidates. Platforms that did not state their fees for job seekers are marked as such rather than assumed free.

The visa decides which job makes sense before the platform does. On Australia’s working holiday visas, a second year requires 88 days of paid specified work, such as farming, fishing, mining or construction in a regional area, and work for one employer is generally capped at six months, according to a 2026 guide from One Planet Migration Law; UK nationals have been exempt from the specified work rule since July 2024. Both rules shape which Australian listings suit a given visa holder. In New Zealand, working holiday visa holders cannot take a permanent job.

Getting the visa at all is the bottleneck in some countries. Canada sent 71,674 working holiday invitations in the first half of 2026, against 71,109 a year earlier, but odds varied sharply by nationality: France had 16,560 candidates for 99 remaining spots, while South Korea had 137 candidates for 3,408, according to Moving2Canada’s analysis of official data. The UK’s Youth Mobility Scheme visa costs £340, plus a healthcare surcharge of usually £776 a year and proof of £2,530 in savings, for a stay of up to 24 months.

Country job boards for working holiday makers

Backpacker Job Board (Australia)

Backpacker Job Board is an Australian site built for working holiday makers and young travellers. Employers post directly; listings on the day checked came from wineries, hotels, cafes, caravan parks and staffing and sales companies. It covers every state and territory and links a sister site for New Zealand. Registration is free, with no membership fee. It runs a dedicated category for 88-day jobs plus a postcode checker and day calculator for specified work, and states that job seekers must confirm the work is paid, specified and in an eligible postcode.

Strength: tools aimed at the second-year visa requirement.
Strength: free for job seekers.
Weakness: claims “1,000s of jobs” but publishes no total.
Weakness: sales and staffing listings sit alongside direct employer posts.

Backpackerboard (New Zealand)

Backpackerboard is a New Zealand travel site with a jobs board alongside hostel listings, transport and a buy-and-sell noticeboard. Employers post through an employer section. It listed 589 vacancies on the day checked, across categories including fruit picking and packhouse work, hospitality, ski season, au pair, construction, healthcare and hostel work exchange. Listings cover Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown, the Bay of Plenty, Hawke’s Bay, Marlborough and other regions. The site does not state whether job seekers pay, and it carries sponsored placements.

Strength: published vacancy count and regional breakdown.
Strength: covers the main horticulture regions.
Weakness: work-exchange listings, which may be unpaid, are mixed with paid jobs.
Weakness: fees for job seekers not stated.

Job Bank (Canada)

Job Bank is the Government of Canada’s job search site, run by Employment and Social Development Canada, in English and French. Accounts and the mobile app are free. It has a section for jobs from employers seeking temporary foreign workers, though it offers no filter for open work permit holders such as working holiday participants. Filters cover hours, benefits and salary. Its listings are general rather than seasonal, so it reaches a wider range of employers than the backpacker-focused sites.

Strength: government-run, bilingual and free.
Strength: salary filter on listings.
Weakness: not built around seasonal or short-term work.
Weakness: no filter for working holiday permit holders.

Find a job (UK)

Find a job is the UK government’s vacancy service on the Department for Work and Pensions domain. Anyone can search without an account; applying requires one. Filters include keyword, location, category and fully remote, hybrid or on-site work. It does not publish a total listing count or a category for seasonal or Youth Mobility Scheme jobs, so it works as a general board rather than a travellers’ one. Unlike the Australian visas, the Youth Mobility Scheme has no specified-work rule tying a second year to particular sectors, so a general board is a closer fit there.

Strength: official service with remote and hybrid filters.
Strength: no account needed to search.
Weakness: no seasonal or visa-type filter.
Weakness: listing volume not published.

YOLO JAPAN (Japan)

YOLO JAPAN is a service for foreign residents of Japan covering jobs, housing and daily life, available in 13 languages. Job listings run through its YOLO WORK section. The public pages do not show a visa-type filter, a listing count or whether job seekers pay, and the jobs section could not be fetched for this guide, so its coverage of working holiday makers could not be confirmed. It is included because it is one of few Japanese job services built for non-Japanese speakers.

Strength: 13-language interface.
Strength: aimed at foreign residents rather than Japanese job seekers.
Weakness: listing volume and fees not published on public pages.
Weakness: no confirmed working holiday filter.

Multi-country seasonal job sites

PickingJobs.com

PickingJobs.com is a directory of farms, wineries and growers in 18 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Norway and much of western Europe. It is not a job board in the usual sense: it lists employers, and job seekers contact them directly by email. Browsing is free; employers pay for advertisements, with no prices published. The site reports about 4,000 to 4,500 weekly visitors, giving two different figures on the same page.

Strength: wide country coverage for harvest work.
Strength: direct employer contacts, free to browse.
Weakness: no live vacancy listings, so availability must be checked employer by employer.
Weakness: inconsistent traffic figures and no listing dates.

Season Workers

Season Workers is a UK-based board for seasonal work, operating since 2001. It covers summer resort and camp jobs, ski jobs, tours, childcare, hospitality, watersports and TEFL, with listings on the day checked in the US, France, Switzerland, Greece, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Employers, recruiters and tour operators post, including large UK operators. A free account is available. Some listings are paid courses rather than jobs: ski instructor courses shown ranged from about £4,250 to £11,695.

Strength: broad seasonal coverage across hemispheres.
Strength: per-employer vacancy counts shown.
Weakness: paid courses and gap-year placements sit beside paid jobs.
Weakness: visa or work-rights requirements are not stated on the main page.

Natives

Natives is a UK-run site for ski season workers, operated by 247 Media and linked to partner sites SkiJobs.com, ResortWork and AdventureWork. It states that it is not a recruitment agency; workers apply directly to employers. Job types run from chalet hosts, chefs and bar staff to ski technicians, drivers and snowsports instructors, for seasons that usually run from November or December to April or May. Featured employers include Club Med and several UK chalet operators. The site does not state fees for job seekers or list visa requirements on its main page.

Strength: detailed role coverage for winter seasons.
Strength: direct applications, no agency layer.
Weakness: winter only.
Weakness: visa requirements are covered on a separate page, not in listings.

Anywork Anywhere

Anywork Anywhere describes itself as the number one website for jobs abroad and seasonal jobs. On 7 November 2026 it showed listings for Winter 2026/27 and Summer 2027, including camps, ski jobs and working holiday options in Canada and Australia.

Strength: listings for both winter and summer seasons.
Weakness: the “number one” claim is the site’s own.

Australia’s piece-rate floor

Much harvest work advertised on these boards in Australia is paid by piece rate, by the bin or kilo. Since 28 April 2022, under a Fair Work Commission decision varying the Horticulture Award, piece workers must earn at least the award hourly rate for the hours they work, plus the 25 percent loading for casuals, whatever their output. Piece rates must also be set so that a competent worker at average productivity earns at least 15 percent more than that hourly rate, and employers must keep records of hours worked.

The same floor matters for the visa. Specified work only counts toward a second Australian working holiday visa if it is paid at the correct award rate, so days paid below the piece-rate floor do not count toward the 88.