<p>I will be sophmore this fall. As a freshman, I was awarded a substantial work-study benefit but was unable to use it because I was not selected for any of the numerous jobs that I applied for. </p>
<p>So far, I have applied for just about everything available at the Yale Job site and have not recieved any offers.</p>
<p>Any tips?</p>
<p>I doubt that many of those employers are even looking at the applicants yet since school hasn’t started. If you don’t hear anything in a week you can try and send an e-mail to them to confirm they have your info.</p>
<p>Are you interested in research? Is there a professor that you’d specifically like to work with? My son had great success by directly emailing professors he was interested in working for. He was pleasantly surprised by how quick and positive the responses were; even those with no openings gave him leads on others to contact. Good luck!</p>
<p>Keep looking, the library always needs help. My daughter found it a little tough one year when it was the second semester and she didn’t work the first half, but be consistent, they aren’t always the best in getting back promptly.
I know when she applied too early for summer work, they asked her to wait until June, so maybe they haven’t looked at them before now.</p>