How to find a part time job
By HSB
Part time would definitely make student life easy. It will pay your monthly living expenses atleast. But, you must be aware of the fact that, it must be of least priority in your list for finding way sot meet your financial ends. Order of importance would be as follows
1) Research Assistantship
2) Teaching Assistantship
3) Scholarship
4) Part Time job
In this article, I’m going to talk about part time jobs. As an International Student, you are allowed to work 20 hours per week within University Campus. Any work outside the campus, like gas stations, restaurants, hotels, motels, is considered illegal. It can lead to deportation from U.S.
One of my friend was working in an restaurant nearby the university. One of the International Student Advisor was at the restaurant for lunch, and he happened to his waiter. Couple of days later, he went to IO for some paper works, and same International Officer happened to meet him. He advised him to quit working at restaurant immediately, without any adverse action. This was few years back.
So, there is very good chance of getting deported back to India, if you were found working outside campus. But, do student take that risk? Yes, of course. But, I feel its not worth the risk to work off-campus jobs.
Requirements for Part-Time job:
If you don’t have RA/TA, start looking for part time jobs oncampus, from Day 1 you reach U.S. Because, it will help you in many ways, like
1) Part Time jobs will get you an SSN
2) That will indirectly, help to get Credit Cards, Driving License and build Credit History and Driving History.
3) Above all, will pay for your monthly expenses.
You would need…
- One Page Resume for part time jobs.
- Know where to look for jobs
- Know who is right contact person for that job
- Know few seniors who has part time job, who will give your pointers
- Be proactive during job search
Some schools, finding part time is very difficult. Especially, when number of International Students are more in the University. Not everyone will get RA/TA. Also, number of jobs that will be available will be very less. If that’s the case, you need to be looking for all possible opportunities to find a job.
Some job will pay you like $10 per hours and some will be $6 per hour. Look for jobs in Library, Multimedia Labs, Computer Labs, Department Offices, College Cafe, Football, Basket Ball ground, Administrative departments, Registrar Office, … I have heard that in Texas A&M @ College Station there is an RA position for feeding and observing the research animals like pig. They pay around $1200 per month.
If you attend big schools in terms of students strength ( > 35,000), more chances for you to find the part time job very easily. If there is medical school, look for jobs over there too.
I will have to talk about significance of One Page Resume in future posts. If you like this post, I would appreciate, if you can pen down few comments. Thanks!
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Your blog is really very informative for international students,,,thnx for such a good work..
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thankyou … so helpful stuff…keep going.. i feel it is one of the best blogs on the internet to guide us aspirants.. i find every answer to my question in this blog… i need not search anywhere else.. thanks a lot..
Hai! guys.
Iam planning to do MS.I’ve applied for 3 universities.
1.University of Texas,Arlington
2.University of North Texas,Denton
3.FDU,Newjersey.
Guys.Please advice me which university to choose among above 3 univ’s based on tution fee,quality of education,availability of scholarships and part-time jobs.
Really helpful… pls continue doing ur work… its gud.. all the best
Thanx a lot sir!..you are really doing a fabulous job. The inspiring students are getting a lot a valuable information from your this amazing blog.
great one…looking forward for the resume tips…speed it up man
Thanks your article really helped with a start point, see I have a freind from Bie Jing &… It’s actually a long story… But thank you so much
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Zai Jian
thanx a lot dude….
hi
grt work and its very useful and i am also waiting for ur “job in India vs US.
thank you,
for all the info u are giving everyone whose interested in studying in the US!all this matter is of grt help and is not found so easily on the net.actually this is the kind of stuff we are all lookin for.
keep up the good work.god bless!
Sure guys, will post about job in India vs Masters in U.S.
Hi
Can u post about the job opportunities after MS(CS,other fields also).
Is it worth the effort of resigning a current job and pursuing higher studies in US.
Pointing, good to see your post. I will post a sample 1 page resume. Infact its on my to-do list.
i really praise u r work, its really just awesome for the students who are aspiring to study in US
if u can post u r one page resume or samples of that kind it would be a gr8 thing for us to find a part time easily.
man o man all ur post r awesome….its really helpin…..can u tell me howto u post in blogspot the format,i knw content is ur exp but really cool style of formattin ns stuff…
good post man really helped me a lot waiting for ur another post