Student Employment
Student Employment
Since the student maintenance loan now hardly covers housing costs, much alone all the additional expenses associated with your education, such as food, transport, entertainment, and bills, it is no surprise that 76% of students work part-time.
It can be challenging to balance a part-time work with your studies, particularly if your part-time employment requires night shifts or lengthy hours each week. After all, you are attending college to earn a degree, not to excel at shelf stacking and graduate with honours.
However, with a little luck and a thorough awareness of the many professions available to students, you might be able to locate one that meshes well with your course of study.
Having a solo business
For a student, starting your own business or doing freelance work seems like the perfect option, but it's not as simple as it would appear. Building anything from the ground up requires time, effort, and developing a reputation for yourself, but if you have an entrepreneurial spirit, this form of employment can be right for you.
1.Create a blog or website of your own.
Do you have a pastime or a passion that you engage in for enjoyment and that you are highly educated about? This could be the perfect topic for a blog. You may convert your passion for writing about a subject you are really knowledgeable about into a company and earn money from it by doing so.
working as a freelancer for others
If you have writing talent but don't want to wait for your own site to gain popularity, you may consider working as a freelancer for others. There are many websites out there that feature a wide variety of freelancing opportunities that you may apply for. As a single proprietor, you must register with HMRC, although doing so is free of charge.
Offer your services for less in the beginning to build up your portfolio, but don't go too low because low cost doesn't necessarily equate to high quality. Your ability to land work and increase your fees will both improve as your review count increases.
The top freelancing websites include
- Translation
- Transcription
- Proofreading
- Web or graphic design
- Video creation or editing
- Content writing
- Virtual assistant
- Photography Start your own business
Most universities these days will have business support or incubation services for student start-ups. They will offer mentoring, learning opportunities, information on funding and all the guidance you need on setting up your business.
According to recent research around a quarter of students in the UK currently run or plan to run a business while they are at university….and we all know a pretty famous case study of a businesses that started from a university bedroom. Maybe you’re next?
Make money online from home
You might not consider these sort of things as a job, but what’s the difference? You do stuff and get paid for it. The only difference is that you don’t have a contract and you are not guaranteed regular work, but sometimes that can be a good thing. It means you can do the work when you have the time and stop when you have an essay deadline or exams demanding your attention.
Answer surveys – research companies are always looking for people to answer surveys. All you have to do is register a few details about yourself so they know if you fit the profile requirements of each survey and whilst you don’t get paid more than about £3 per survey, it’s easy money. There are loads of different survey sites, so sign up with a few different ones and you are more likely to be sent relevant surveys.
While you aren't paid for mystery shopping or dining, you are given money to go out and buy or eat at restaurants and then write a review of your experience. If you do it frequently, especially if you shop at Asda, you may save quite a bit of money because you get to keep everything you buy (or eat, thank goodness!).
Another approach to receive items for free is to participate in product testing. When you join up to be a product tester, you get to keep the things you test. Once more, not a paycheck, but a fantastic technique to increase your revenue. You could always sell the goods if you don't need them for yourself. They frequently have all of the newest technology
Sell your items. We all hold onto things we no longer need, hoping they'll come in handy at some point or being unwilling to throw them away since they were expensive. Why not sell it then? You might be surprised by how many items you own that others would wish to purchase:
tech and gadgets
CDs
Games\sClothes\sTextbooks
training notes
Student part-time jobs
The majority of university towns will provide a variety of part-time opportunities for students. Here is a list of the many kinds of part-time jobs you might be able to get while you are in school.
- the bar
- Restaurant servers' tables
- operating a supermarket
- Retail employee
- Babysitting
- Pet sitting and walking dogs
- residence sitting
- For event firms, a hospitality/catering assistant
- in a call centre as a call taker
- cleaner, either for a home or workplace
- You can promote your tutoring services locally or online, but you must have a DBS check in order to work with children.
- Use the promo code 47202F4A to receive 10% off all TEFL courses to help you prepare to teach English as a foreign language.
- Modelling\Film/TV
- You can offer your tutoring services locally or online, but in order to deal with children, you must have a DBS check. Use code 47202F4A to receive a 10% discount on all TEFL training courses to help you prepare to teach English as a foreign language. Modelling\sFilm/TV Extra charitable fundraising Gardening Labourer Delivery You will require a vehicle of your own to drive. Packer/warehouse worker
What to anticipate from student part-time work
You can certainly find a student who doesn't like their part-time work for every one who does. You are really fortunate if you can find a career that you enjoy while still in school. Most individuals perform them just for financial gain, which frequently isn't a smart idea.
Jobs in the retail, bar, and catering industries sometimes call for exceedingly unsociable schedules, beginning at absurdly early hours and lasting into the wee hours or even through the night. This may be really exhausting, so you need to be careful that working shifts does not prevent you from attending classes and doing your homework. If you don't earn a
degree, there is no use in working your way through college to pay for it.
Any position that involves dealing with customers will have issues. When customers are dissatisfied, they may act rudely, violently, and difficultly. Additionally, dealing with inebriated customers and shoplifters may be necessary. Be ready for both the good and the terrible. Additionally, there are a lot of very good individuals out there, and a happy client may make your work feel meaningful.
How much money should you expect to earn?
Your age determines what the federal minimum wage is. You should be compensated at least this amount. It usually is, but it offers you a general idea of what is acceptable.
Ages under 18: £4.35 per hour
18 – 20 – £6.15/hour
21 – 24 – £7.70/hour
25 and older: £8.21 per hour
advantages of working while you're a student
In the perspective of a potential employer, each job you have held while attending university will improve your CV, regardless of whether it is connected to your desired vocation or not.
having the drive to look for work, being able to keep it, showing up each day/week on time, and meeting your employer's requirements
As a student, it might occasionally be beneficial to have a job that is really dull. It helps you realise how important it is to work hard in school to have a profession you enjoy in the future! If your job is so monotonous, just picture yourself doing it all day every day to spur you on to work hard in class, graduate, and find a more fulfilling employment!
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