ski Instructor Courses

Why is the last run of your ski holiday so depressing? Is it because it always starts dumping the biggest, fluffiest snowflakes as you board the coach to the airport or is it because you know that the office/ classroom/ lecture theatre beckons on Monday? Or is it because you can’t believe you won’t ski again for a whole year…that’s 52 horrible weeks or 365 painful days or 8760 pointless hours.

Joining one of SnowSkool’s ski instructor courses is the miracle cure for this loathsome condition! With a truly global reach, you can train as a ski instructor at world-class resorts in Canada, France, New Zealand or the USA. Our ski instructor courses take place in both the northern and southern winter with start dates in December, January, April and July. And if you are looking to go on and work as a ski instructor, SnowSkool’s instructor recruitment database can help you there. At last count, we had connections to over 150 Ski Schools in fourteen different countries! Your toughest decision is which SnowSkool ski instructor course to choose!

Short ski instructor courses last between two and five weeks whereas their season-long brethren last from nine to thirteen weeks. One question we love answering is…”Can I do Level 1 and Level 2 on the short course?” and the answer is, of course, no! Sorry guys, but the Level 1 is an entry-level ski instructor qualification that can be completed as part of a short course whereas the Level 2 is a whole huge step up and permits holders to work as a ski instructor internationally.

Short instructor courses are useful for those that are restricted by time or who want to spread the qualifications over two seasons but SnowSkool’s range of season-long ski instructor courses enable you to focus your training and make the most of your time in the mountains, working on your freestyle or backcountry skiing, doing some heli-skiing and generally settling into a life in the mountains!

We’ll be running four groups of skiers on the Big White ski instructor course this season…the largest amount of skiers we have ever had in Big White. It’s a great thing because we can split groups precisely according to ability – on the course this season, we have skiers aged between 18 and 54 and with experience ranging from 3 weeks on-snow to 50+ weeks on-snow. We don’t want them in the same group now, do we?! Crucially we can help every one of them find work as a ski instructor as our recruitment database has connections with over 150 Ski Schools in fourteen countries.

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