Student Jobs: Striking the Right Balance

<p>As a general principle, if there are 2 jobs available and one only requires your manual labor whereas the other requires you to use your brain, always choose the latter.</p><p>A wise person once said to me, “to give you worthwhile work experience is stuffing money down your pocket”.</p><p>Many students think, “a job is purely there for me to make money in order to survive university”. This is true in the short term. In the long term, we’re living in a world where you can’t swing a bag without hitting at least 15 unemployed graduates. If you have the opportunity, you should really be thinking about enhancing your CV whilst at university.</p>

<p>Sit down and put together a budget. Do you actually need to work? Or is this simply to supplement your beer allowance?</p><p>Don’t forget, a student job is still a real job. At the end of the day, you can’t just turn up  expect to be paid for doing nothing. If you’re not going to put in 100%, don’t bother doing it at all because you may be simply edging your employer to write you a poor reference. If you don’t really need a job for the money, think about doing an internship or volunteering at a charity instead.</p><p>For help finding a student job, your university’s careers service should be able to offer some advice. Gumtree, Craigslist also have lots available. If all else fails, try this link: <a href="http://bit.ly/z6uH97" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/z6uH97</a></p><p>Glad to help.</p>