subject: Summer Jobs Available For You [print this page] Looking for a way to augment your income during the summer months? As a university student, finding a summer job can be a necessity at times most especially with the rising costs of goods these days. By getting some part time work, you could alleviate your financial condition as well. It is also a good thing to have in your resume when you start applying for full time work.
Being employed in a summer gig shows your capacity to do tasks and hold responsibility as well as your capability to take orders. In some cases, it may even show you that you have done critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and managerial skills. Here are some of the jobs that may be available and interesting to you:
- Air Con Technician. Being a car air con repair technician for the summer time is an interesting job. Especially if you live in a busy city, the focus of your responsibility in a car air con repair shop will involve checking to see for any leaks in the compressors, filling the compressor with HCFC-which is the environmentally friendly Freon as we know it, and perhaps even taking calls from customers and setting schedules for them. It is usually during the summer season that air con repair shops are busiest for the obvious reason of it being summer and air conditions should be working well. Being involved in this company teaches you indirectly how to manage your resources when there are lots of customers waiting to be serviced. You can even figure out when the busiest times are in the shop and when are the lean times, and suggest to the owners to offer promos during the lean times to have more people come during that time as well.
- Hotel /Resort Staff. Again, this is seasonal work and more often than not, you will be assigned to do a number of things based on the program given by the management. Learning the ropes from house keeping, front desk operations, restaurant and bar operations, and even concierge services may mold you to be inclined to enter this service industry once you graduate. The primary concern of giving the best customer service is held to the letter in this industry. As they say, the customer is king. By giving your best and knowing how to communicate with customers, making their experience in the place you are working for worthwhile, you learn how customers react, and want. This life lesson is something you will always get to use down the road no matter what industry you eventually chose.
