Useful tips for starting a career as a ski instructor
Dream job “ski instructor” – what requirements should a ski instructor meet?
If skiing is your passion and you enjoy getting to know new people, languages and cultures, then you already meet some very important requirements of a ski instructor. With this job, you have the opportunity to turn your hobby into a career!
A ski instructor’s job is not just to teach other people how to ski or to improve their skills. No, a good ski instructor is much more! He is a companion, advisor, teacher and friend who plays a large part in making the winter vacation a wonderful experience.
There are several training levels on the way to becoming a ski instructor:
- Kinderskilehrer / Kindercoach
- Skilehrer Anwärter
- Landesskilehrer
- Diplomskilehrer
- Skiführer
Individuals can complete the training to become a ski instructor for children at the age of 15, which is organized internally by the ski school.
All other training courses are organized by the Tyrolean Ski Instructors Association, where the exams are taken by the state of Tyrol and are therefore officially recognized.
To take and complete the ski instructor candidate exam, participants must be 16 years old. All other training courses build on one another.
We offer both the training to become a children’s ski instructor and the training to become a “Skilehrer Anwärter” in Jerzens in Pitztal in the ski area Hochzeiger. If anyone is interested in either of the two courses, you are welcome to obtain further, more detailed information and write an email to mitarbeiter@skischule-hochzeiger.com.
You can then put the knowledge you learn during the training into practice during the holidays (Christmas, Carnival and Easter) or perhaps even for the entire winter season. We are happy to offer you a job in our ski school Hochzeiger-Pitztal. Apply now on our homepage and become part of our team!
What advantages can you enjoy with us at the ski school Hochzeiger-Pitztal:
-> Friendly working atmosphere and helpful colleagues
-> Weekly training opportunities during ski instructor training
-> Attractive pay
-> Varied and interesting field of work
-> Very good cooperation and collaboration with the local sports shops, the Hochzeiger Bergbahnen and the restaurants in the ski area (discounts)
Training for our ski instructors – we encourage and challenge our employees
All our teachers are qualified ski or snow sports instructors. But what would a one-off training be without regular refresher courses/training? That’s exactly why we hold at least one training session every week, where our ski and snowboard instructors can develop further and refresh their knowledge and skills. Our ski and snowboard instructors repeatedly discuss and train the skiing technique and the current curriculum in both theory and practice down to the smallest detail. The training also includes language courses, first aid and the further development of personal skiing or snowboarding skills.
Many people think that a ski instructor just has to ski in front of their course participants and do a few exercises in between, but that is neither the reality nor our requirements for our employees!
Every ski and snowboard instructor has to adapt the lessons to the ability of their group or their private course as best as possible and make them varied. There are, for example, big differences in offering children’s and adult courses. In addition, the instructor has to drive in front of the group and find suitable solutions or exercises for existing problems and habitual driving errors and then explain, demonstrate, and correct them. Which ski slope is best suited to the current ability and the exercise we are going to do? These are just two of many questions that every ski instructor has to ask themselves several times a day.
These are exactly the things that are trained in our ski instructor training. So that every ski instructor always knows what to do and the guest can manage the various descents on and off-piste much more safely and elegantly after each ski course.
Conclusion – How do I become a ski instructor and what requirements do ski instructors have to meet?
The ski instructor job is versatile, varied, sporty and very communicative. Pupils and students like to use this opportunity as a holiday job during the main holiday periods to leave the stress of school behind them. Would you like to take a gap year? Why not become a ski instructor for an entire winter season?
The majority of people who have once practised this wonderful profession stay “stuck” with it for a certain period of time. We are proud of this because it shows that we do a lot of things right when dealing with our employees and we are always happy about the opportunity to welcome new ski instructors to our team.
