Some news about Travel Work:

Unemployed who follow Bill Gates' track"
El Periódico (May 4, 1997)

The selfemployment appears as an attractive solution for the young men who fight against the saturation of the labour market.... Eva Sabater's way towards the route of the selfemployment has been very different. At the age of 23, while she was studying Economics, she created Travel Work, a company that offers labour experience to the students across practices in countries of the European Union (EU). The idea arose for her need to obtain a few practices of marketing in London " to improve curriculum and language ". She found that out of the official scholarships, there were no companies that were offering them, and she travelled to England with the aim to find collaborators to take to end his her project. Three years later, Travel Work offers work experience in different areas - finance, law, engineering, tourism or computer science and in multinationals like British Telecom, Ford or Coca Cola.


"Travel Work: learning to be work in Europe "
Mercat Laboral

For many younth, the stay in some European country is an excellent opportunity to improve the level of a foreign language. Nevertheless, companies like TRAVEL WORK make possible besides to realize a few professional practices of the speciality that is wished. Eva Sabater, manager of TRAVEL WORK, explains to us the requirements that are needed to obtain a work under the rule of paid work experience in Europe. From TRAVEL WORK facilitates the possibility of carrying out professional practices that go from one month up to even one year. The interested person can be employed at the sector that he wishes providing that he has as minimum of a few English knowledges equivalent to a First level Certificate. This person depending on his knowledges, and even from the first course of career, can accede to WORK EXPERIENCE’s program, which allows to exercise a practice related to his studies. Also there is the second program that is called “SEASONAL PAID " It is a stay, normally in summer, where that it is possible to be employed at jobs related with tourism or hotel and catering business, and with good economic conditions, normally there is paid to them the accomodation, the food and a salary. (...) It is necessary to bear in mind that the labour experience comes supported by a certificate that grants the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (...)


When youth carry the initiative
Mediacampus, april 1997

The responsibility of creating companies is not exclusive of men and women experienced in the business. The youngsters also have good ideas for set up profitable companies. Because of that, the association AIESEC wants to promote the entrepreneurial initiative of the university students, and has organized several activities for orientating the entrepreneurial youngsters.
(...) Eva Sabater, in spite of her youth-25 years-, is already an owner of a company, but the most important is that it is her company. Travel Work was born fruit of an initiative, of a good idea that Eva threw ahead almost three years ago. From then, this company, provides to the youngsters, students and not students, work experiences in several countries of Europe-it is having very good acceptance. All what she has managed to be is the result of the effort of the Eva, who moved around to achieve to contact companies abroad.


"Career Moves"
English Now! Study-Work-Travel autumn 1998

(...) Patricia Ara, had already been working for two years when she decided she wanted to go to England and improve her English, initially for a 6-month period. Through the agency TRAVEL WORK in Barcelona she was put in contact with a job agency in England where she was given three interviews. She was offered a place in a marketing company where, thanks to her languages, she carried out market research studies, gathering information from multinationals in Italy and Spain.(...)
Then there is always the chance of being kept on after your work placement period officially ends. Although she enjoyed her job immensely, Patricia was tired of not being paid, so she put it to her boss to be taken on by the company. Not only was she offered a permanent contract, but a new position was created just for her, that of research analysis assistant.(...)


Set up by yourself
“Jóvenes Mayo”, 1998

(...) The Putting in March: " I requested a subsidy to the Generalitat for the help to creating companies. I advised myself in an organization called " Employment and Development ", also subsidized, that teaches how start a company of legal form. On having studied economic,I took the accounting and the fiscal field.
From my point of view, the principal difficulty was to try to open a market in a country that was not mine; where the culture, customs, way of work .., they were totally different. It was very difficult the fact that they saw me very young. Always you face new challenges, the competition, and they suppose difficulties that you have to solve.
I have been taking decisions depending on my intuition, though my friends and family have helped me when I have needed different points of view (...)
I encourage to all young men and women to set up their own company. That they do not try to begin overhead (big offices ...) but little by little. Many patience is needed (and a couple of years to receive sticks) But it is worthwhile and is not so difficult if a good idea is had.


" Travel Work: professional experience in Europe "
Magazine of the Real Club of Tennis of the Turó Marzo 1996

(...) Travel Work's principal aim is to achieve that the youth obtain a curriculum vitae more competitive, that could serve him in the future. It is directed principally for university students or persons who have ended the career and facilitates to them a labour international experience, which helps to improve the level of other languages, and they realize internships that also can be of useful here. (...)