More Part-Time Jobs for Students

[anguissette]

Companies should be more active in helping out college students by making part-time positions available. It's so difficult to find a decent part-time job here in the Philippines, unlike other countries (the US and Japan for example). The only jobs I've seen were those in fast-food restaurants, which often require late working hours.

[rabbaddal]

Originally posted by anguissette
Companies should be more active in helping out college students by making part-time positions available. It's so difficult to find a decent part-time job here in the Philippines, unlike other countries (the US and Japan for example). The only jobs I've seen were those in fast-food restaurants, which often require late working hours.

Gook luck trying to find one in Manila. More developed countries like the US have co-op programs where students can get to apply what they learn in real business situations. It's a way for big businesses to invest in future talent. Unfortunately most Filipino companies cannot see this value. Most are either family-owned businesses and/or cash cows that adhere to a "gastos lang yan" mentality. With their noses to the ground and their emphasis on short-term gain, it is very difficult for them to appreciate the importance of long-term investments that don't immediately benefit the bottomline.

That being said, there are decent corporate-caliber part-time opportunities if you look hard enough. A college classmate of mine, for example, was working part-time for Oracle's consulting group while in college while another was selling insurance for AIG. My former company used to have part-time and intern technical positions.

One way you can find such opportunities is through an informal job search strategy - aka. networking. If you don't have a network yet, you'll have to resort to brute force, that is either writing or calling hiring or HR managers (hiring managers preferred) yourself and letting them know what you're looking for.

[cramnhoj]

That's because in the US it's generally accepted to hire people who haven't graduated, here, if you haven't graduated, people will think of you as simply not yet being qualified for anything.