Getting a summer job

BCEagle91
Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:59:58 +0000

Are you a STEM major? If so, perhaps you could check around your department to see if any of the professors need research assistants over the summer.

Retailers generally prefer hiring people that will stick around after the summer ends so that they don’t lose the training investment that they make in their employees unless the work is seasonal. But it wouldn’t hurt to look for help-wanted signs.

One student that I know of hooked up with a nationwide tutoring company to provide tutoring services in the area. He got a number of students in the area for tutoring over the summer - it may be that the name-recognition helped him to get students where he otherwise wouldn’t on his own.

If you’re spending the summer near your school, you might contact the tutoring center at your school to see if they have parents looking for tutors. Our son worked in the tutoring center at his school for several years and the tutoring center manager used to forward requests from parents looking for tutoring for their middle-school and high-school kids. These were private gigs that university tutors worked out with parents. Sometimes parents of college students would look for tutors too.

Use your network - ask parents, relatives, friends, classmates to see if they know of anything.

Look at your career center for internships. It’s actually late in the cycle for internships.