<p>How easy is it to get a job around the Santa Barbara area?</p>
<p>Depends on the girl, and whether she’s willing to give you that “job” or not. ;D</p>
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<p>But seriously, you have to be on your A-Game when it comes to job hunting around the Santa Barbara area. </p>
<p>It’s hard, and I highly suspect there are a number of shallow employers anyways.</p>
<p>So, yea. Ranges from impossible to fairly easy, depending on who you are and how you approach your job search.</p>
<p>unless you know somebody, or want to be a waiter/cashier, you pretty much wont get a job. </p>
<p>unemployment rate is relatively low here though</p>
<p>on gaucholink, it says that incoming students must wait a week after school starts to login. will most or all of the jobs be taken by upperclassmem by then? i was awarded work study and I’d rather work than having my parents pay my expenses along with my other siblings in college. </p>
<p>I’ve also heard about the job fairs at ucsb although i expect it to be more about companies looking for seniors after college. I am down with working a minimum wage cashier job lol. Whatever gets the bills paid.</p>
<p>I dont mind working as a chashier haha
In fact, that’s what I’m hoping to work as :P</p>
<p>Here’s the on-campus job fair that crashking mentioned:
[Welcome</a> to Career Services](<a href=“http://career.ucsb.edu/oncampus/index.html]Welcome”>http://career.ucsb.edu/oncampus/index.html)</p>
<p>Here’s Housing and Residential Services’ jobs page:
[UCSB</a> Student Employment Page](<a href=“http://appl.housing.ucsb.edu/InHouse/student_employment/applications/default.aspx]UCSB”>http://appl.housing.ucsb.edu/InHouse/student_employment/applications/default.aspx)
[The dining services positions are the most numerous.</p>
<p>The desk attendant positions listed there have an interview process that require you to attend an informational session - I believe that it’s sometime during the Week of Welcome. It’s usually listed in the WOW calendar. There’s usually a lot of competition for the DA positions.]</p>
<p>The UCen itself has jobs, though I don’t know when they hire. I’m not familiar with the hiring process with the stores/restaurants inside the UCen, but I’m sure you could find out when you get there.</p>
<p>And yes, I would think that there will still be jobs listed on GauchoLink by the time all of you are able to access it (though I can’t speak to work-study openings in particular, as I don’t have any experience with them). In any case, I think the On-Campus Job Fair I linked to earlier is a good enough start for UCSB job hunting.</p>
<p>What about after college?
Would an Engineer grad from UCSB be belittled around Engineer grads Berkeley, Stanford, and other more respected schools?</p>
<p>take pen/paper to the DA (desk attendant) info meeting</p>
<p>Dining common jobs: Someone told me it’s a quite a bit too late to apply if you do so now.</p>
<p>But, there are bound to be spaces opening up.</p>
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no…if that were the case, there wouldnt be so many engineering firms in SB and goleta. most of the berkeley folk are looking for jobs in silicon valley, not here.</p>
<p>Flushmaverick, you are soooo effin helpful man!
ahaha</p>