<p>Right now, I am trying to find a job on-campus that is part time. How many job applications did you have to submit before you finally got an offer? </p>
<p>Has anyone every had any luck with career fairs on campus?</p>
<p>Are you talking about for a post graduation job? I applied to about two dozen companies, heard back from about 5, got two interviews and two offers.</p>
<p>As far as on campus goes, I did some TAing my senior year, but that was less of having to apply and more of knowing the professor.</p>
<p>@Chuy: Good job on the two offers. What is your major?</p>
<p>Materials science engineering, but only one job (the one I didn’t take) was related to it in any way.</p>
<p>No, I am talking about on campus jobs… sorry, I did not specify</p>
<p>I checked 3 jobs, but never submitted an app for them (I just emailed asking if the positions were still available). They weren’t. But then, around Christmas I was walking around campus and found a store which was hiring, and it turns out that it’s owned by the university and is a work/study job. </p>
<p>My advice? Email/call/otherwise contact a lot of prospects before applying - it’ll save you time and ego. Also, try contacting the places that you’re interested in working on-campus, even if they’re not listed in a work/study directory, and ask if they might have jobs opening. At the very least, just walk around campus and see if anything is offered. (The good news is, the best times to find a job are A) summer, when everyone has left and graduated, or B) Christmas, when places have a rush (retail, mostly)).</p>
<p>None, but I was offered one anyway!</p>
<p>For on campus jobs—</p>
<p>This is THE most important thing: Be the FIRST one to apply/ drop off your application, THE FIRST week of school/ that you are on campus.</p>
<p>It’s simple: the seniors have graduated and left, and now there are openings for freshmen. Almost no one’s application is rejected if you are seemingly normal, for jobs such as working at the gym, at a bar/ restaurant on campus, at a store, or grading stuff (provided you have some background). Thus the first apps in are the successful ones.</p>
<p>Everyone is disoriented at the very beginning of college (or every year back, really) and rarely anyone thinks about jobs — or they’ll think about it a week or two in. If you get in applications early, you’ll do well.</p>
<p>^True. It’s all about applying early for regular on-campus jobs.</p>
<p>Everyone’s right about applying early. It probably wouldn’t hurt to email a few places over the summer before all the freshman at orientation mass apply. Last year (freshman), I applied to like 10 jobs at the beginning of the year. I only got one substitute position at the art gallery, so worked like once a month. In october, I gave up on the idea of a job that actually interested me and did scorekeeping for IM sports, but that was only 3 hours a week. But I kept an eye out and paid attention to job listings in the paper, and before winter break got a job in career services as an office assistant 6 hours a week. Next year, I still have that job, bumped up to 9 hours a week, I’ll also be doing tutoring in our writing center, and I think my job at the art gallery will be a regular shift instead of subbing. </p>
<p>Moral of the story: Apply for everything you can if you need a job. I have a friend who constantly bemoans her lack of job and asks where I find them all. I read the school paper, I check the website. She doesn’t. If you’re persistant, you’ll find a job. Or three in my case.</p>
<p>I was going to work a maximum of 3-4 jobs, depending on whether anyone needed tutoring, but it’s been discovered that my F-1 Visa only allows me to work on campus. So now I can’t deliver papers or drive the transit anymore. I had to quite my job and give back my first paper delivery paycheck so that when we apply for green card, there won’t be any red flags… ■■- -me</p>
<p>I “applied” for one (emailed the guy), and got it.</p>
<p>I got this job through a friend. I can’t/don’t get work study, so I had to hunt around for a job that didn’t fall under that classification. Ironically, my job actually pays me more than you’re allowed to make on work-study, which is awesome.</p>
<p>In other words, word of mouth/ friends is often a great source for on-campus jobs.</p>
<p>I got one job of my regular jobs through work study, for the other one I simply asked on my second day if they still needed anyone; a couple of hours later I got an email with my shifts.
I also applied for two other jobs over the course of my first year but didn’t end up gettint either.</p>