<p>It's only February, but I figure it's never too early to start looking for a summer job. Do you guys have any advice for how to get one? Right now, I am thinking about trying to get a job at college (since I live pretty close) or tutoring. However, I tried the latter last semester and had absolutely no luck. (On the other hand, I probably wasn't trying the right way or as I hard as I could) </p>
<p>One option that is available is being a "Conference Coordinator", which also provides free meals in the dining hall. However, I'm a little wary because I'd have to live on campus and not be able to take classes either.</p>
<p>Fill out online applications for various stores, etc. in your area. Look around to see who has help wanted signs in their windows. Since you live close by you can start working now if they need you.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Use your network - ask parents, relatives, friends, classmates to see if they know of anything.</p>
<p>Look at your career center for internships. It’s actually late in the cycle for internships.</p>
<p>BC- many non Stem professors hire research assistants. One of my kids edited a book and fact-checked for a humanities professor (not in the same field… kid was just a good editor). One of my kids ran and analyzed statistical tables for a study being done by the poli sci department. Back in the dark ages, I was a summer research assistant for the Provost’s office of my college studying Affirmative Action policies and its impact on faculty hiring.</p>
<p>Not everyone needs to be a STEM major and there are plenty of research opportunities for strong students in a variety of disciplines.</p>