🌞 How To Quickly Find Student Summer Jobs You’ll Actually Enjoy

Summer job search for people who don't want to.

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Nobody wants to spend a lot of time looking for a summer job, or any job for that matter.

These are the first steps a summer work seeker should try for fastest results, and I used most of them to find my 10 wacky (& not so wacky) summer jobs.

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9 ideas to find student summer job opportunities fast

Starting with the most effective:

1) Ask for your old summer job back

Time needed: the time to make a phone call to your former boss

Why it works: a big part of job search is selling yourself. Avoid having to do that again by going to someone who already knows what you can do (well) for them.

Why it works (2): even if they can't have you back, if your former boss likes you, they're more likely to recommend you to another employer who is looking to hire

2) Work for someone you know

Time needed: the time to reach out to them

Why it works: same as above, with the additional benefit that a family member or friend is more likely to want to help you out

3) Ask family and friends if they can refer you internally at their jobs

Time needed: the time to send a mass email, text, Whatsapp message or other social media post

Why it works: a friend who already has a summer job lined up is usually going to want more friends around, and can easily ask their boss for you

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4) Ask family and friends if they know of any openings

Time needed: the time to send a mass email, text, Whatsapp message or other social media post

Why it works: crowdsource summer job leads from the people who like you most and will most want to help you

5) Get family and friends to mention you're available

Time needed: the time to post a status update on Facebook about when you can start working, and then to ask everyone to share it

Why it works: your family and friends just need to click once to immediately share your availability, no writing needed since you already wrote the update yourself

6) Scout out your nearest shopping area

Time needed: the time to take a walk

Why it works: it only takes a few hours to check out all the local storefronts for want ads hiring college students now or soon, or even to just ask for a job at the places you actually want to work

7) Contact local businesses that tend to boom in the summer

Time needed: 30-60 minutes to find relevant employers, and then the time to contact them

Why it works: many businesses have seasonal hiring needs, often without any experience necessary, and if you act early enough, your sincerity and good manners alone can get you a job. This is true for high school students too.

To get you started, here's a long list of businesses that boom in the summer.

8) Search for the freshest summer job tweets

Use Twitter Advanced Search.

Turn location on to get local results, and then try searching for:

• we're hiring summer positions
• summer job
• summer job near [where you live]
• summer intern
• summer work for us
• #summer #job

Play around with different variations of these keyword phrases too.

You can also check Twitter accounts that post summer jobs.

Time needed: 1 hour could easily be enough to find and contact a few companies about openings

Why it works: more and more businesses quickly tweet their want ads, and if your timing is good, you could be first in line

9) Google for local jobs

Similar to using Twitter, but you need to take an extra step to find the recent posts.

Try these search queries:

• “now hiring [where you live]”
• “summer job [place]”
• “summer intern [place]”
• combine them: “summer hiring [place]”

Then, under Search Tools, choose ‘Past week' or ‘Past month' to only get the most recently posted jobs.

Time needed: likewise, 1 hour could easily be enough to find and contact a few companies about openings

Why it works: although you'll be competing with many other summer job seekers using Google, by focusing on the newest local job postings only, you give yourself the best chance of getting your foot in the door before anyone else

Good luck!

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📖 What’s The Difference Between CVs, Resumes and Curricula Vitae?

Surprise! You should have all three.

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In the US and Canada, it’s a resume.

In Europe and Israel, it’s a CV.

In reality, no matter where you live, you should have both and a curriculum vitae.

Wait. What?

Let’s start with the fun part.

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The definitions

According to Wikipedia:

Résumé

“also spelled resumé or resume,^[1] is a document used by persons to present their backgrounds and skills. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment.^[2] A typical résumé contains a summary of relevant job experience and education.”

CV or Curriculum Vitae

“provides an overview of a person’s experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment.”

At a glance, CV = resume.

However, this second Wikipedia entry goes on to explain that in some places and industries, a curriculum vitae is a much longer and more complete document of your life with emphasis on your career, saying that “curriculum vitae…  can be loosely translated as [the] course of [my] life.”

So CV = resume, but a curriculum vitae is something else.

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Your curriculum vitae contains your work and educational history, while your resume or CV should only mention your most impressive, relevant moments.

This is a concept that you can benefit from regardless of your place or industry.

Here’s how:

Use your curriculum vitae as a base document from which you excerpt your resume (or CV, depending on where you’re job searching).

Here’s why:

3 Reasons you need a Curriculum Vitae

1. Track record

Maintaining your curriculum vitae as you advance through your career forces you to keep track of your accomplishments, failures and lessons in one centralized location.

It’s also best to do this regularly while memories are fresh and you still have access to the people, computers and materials you might need to record everything properly.

That said, even if you wait until your next job search to update your curriculum vitae, that’s still ok because it will force you to look back and refresh your memory about past work that may be discussed in your next job interview.

2. CV/Resume facilitation

By maintaining your curriculum vitae, you’re maintaining a place to select, copy & paste from when writing your resume, making an updated resume easier and quicker to compile, especially when you need to do it each time you target a different company.

3. Work portfolio

By making resume writing easier, your curriculum vitae also makes it easier to quickly build a work portfolio, since you already know which projects to include: the ones mentioned in your resume.

So whether you call it a resume or a CV, use your full curriculum vitae to make your resume the hard-hitting, impressive personal sales document that it needs to be.

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😨 9 Scary Reasons Overqualified Job Seekers are Rejected

If you’ve ever been told you’re overqualified, this is for you.

Being rejected is never fun.

Being rejected for a job you wanted is not even close to being fun.

But being rejected for a job you wanted because they said you’re overqualified is a special kind of aggravation. You can clearly do the job, and you’re available, and willing, and yet… and yet… yet they still don’t want you.

Why?

As it turns out, there are many reasons why. Annoyingly but also fortunately, they don’t usually have anything to do with you.

Here are real reasons why employers are so quick to pull out the ‘overqualified’ rejection.

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‘It’s not you, it’s me’: 9 Reasons to Reject You

1. Employer concern about being able to pay you ‘fairly’

Before starting a recruitment process, employers usually know roughly how much they can afford to pay the new hire. Having more experience and skills than other candidates, employers recognize that you bring more value and are perceived as needing higher pay even if your salary requirements haven’t even been discussed yet in interviews.

If that perceived higher salary is higher than their budget for the position, ‘you’re overqualified.’

2. Employer concern about being able to keep you long enough

You’ll leave as soon as a better opportunity comes along, because “you have so many options” with your extra skills and experience compared to other candidates. Recruitment is expensive, so employers want the most return on their investment.

If employers think you’ll get recruited elsewhere sooner than later, ‘you’re overqualified.’

3. Employer concern you’ll be unwilling to do tasks ‘beneath you’

“You might be willing to do whatever the job requires, but if you’ve held equivalent or higher positions in the past, maybe there are some tasks you just won’t touch because you see your time as too valuable…” thinks a hiring manager who often themselves is unwilling to do tasks ‘beneath them.’

If employers think there’s any aspect of the job you might not do, ‘you’re overqualified.’

4. Employer concern you’ll be bored

Suppose you really are willing to do whatever the job requires. Who’s to say that you won’t ultimately find the job too easy and unchallenging, going sour and bringing down the mood at work and your colleagues with it?

If employers think you’ll get bored quickly, ‘you’re overqualified.’

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5. Employer concern about younger people managing older people

If your potential boss is younger, especially if they’re much younger, they might be anxious about how you’d respond to their authority. It doesn’t even matter how old you are, or if you’ve even been in a similar situation before.

If employers think your relationship with their younger manager might be a problem, ‘you’re overqualified.’

6. Manager views you as a potential internal competitor

Many bosses and managers are insecure in their roles, regardless of whether they merit them or not. But when along comes a candidate like you who might deserve their role even more – even if that’s not the job you’re currently being considered for – their forward-looking inferiority complex will push them to push you far, far away.

A job seeker once related this:

… I’ve had 2 interviews – 1 with a guy who told me I was overqualified (because he wasn’t comfortable when I asked why they were doing everything manually instead of creating a database and queries to process hundreds of applications per day) and the other offered me the job before the end of the day

If a potential boss sees you as a future threat, ‘you’re overqualified.’

7. Recruiter laziness

There’s a lot you can say in a job interview to allay frankly all of the above concerns, but only if recruiters take the time to express them to you and give you a chance to respond. The reality is that for an overwhelmed, tired or lazy recruiter, it’s just so much easier to dismiss you out of hand than to bother.

8. Recruiter excuses for other reasons they can’t or won’t give you

In Why Recruiters Lie When Rejecting You, the Recruiting Animal says:

No recruiter gives substantial feedback. We can’t. If you’re missing specific skills and someone else has them we can tell you that because it is a matter of fact. But we can’t tell you that the hiring manager doesn’t like you because you look a bit frumpy or because you’re a drip.

And there are a lot of reasons why (over)qualified candidates can be rejected or even discriminated against: poor cultural fit, bad interviews, etc., but if you qualify for one of those, it’s just easier to say you’re overqualified.

9. Recruiter manipulation

You never had a chance, even before you came through the door. The recruiter already knows who they want to hire, but an interview quota needed to be filled. Your overqualified resume made you easy to spot as a candidate who could help fill that quota and ‘legitimately’ be rejected without raising any eyebrows from superiors.

The sad truth about being overqualified

The ‘overqualified’ rejection is usually avoidable.

The reality is that if you get rejected this way, it’s almost always because you applied for the wrong job.

Had you done your homework, you could have applied to a company that had a history of hiring people like you, and would have been much less likely to give you that ‘overqualified’ label.

Had you done your homework, you would have valued your qualities more accurately and instead been able to find an employer who does the same.

Getting a job doesn’t mean you need to compromise dramatically.

The good news

In a response to a question about startups on Quora, entrepreneur Nicholas Chavez responded:

My first mentor who had many millions of dollars taught me three valuable lessons that are applicable here:

1. In life you don’t get what you deserve.  You get what you negotiate.
2. Hire every overqualified mother%#$&@% you can find.
3. If someone asks for more than you intended to pay, simply tell them “I’d love to pay you ($200k)!  Can you walk me through the model that will help me do that?

Put differently- for the startup founders employers smart enough to recognize it and willing to take you seriously, ‘overqualified’ really means ‘qualified plus benefits.’

You just need to do your homework and find them.

Other takes

• The Myth of the Overqualified Worker
• What Does “Overqualified” Actually Mean?
• How to apply for (and get) a job that you’re overqualified for

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