Sinclair Community College’s summer semester is underway and with students either taking no classes during the summer or taking on a lighter load this semester, seasonal summer jobs are an option.
Matt Massie, manager of Career Services, gave some tips on getting hired for a seasonal job.
“Be proactive, network — use your family, your friends, your neighbors. Talk to people. You’ll find more opportunities that way than just searching online,” Massie said.
He said to be open to the different types of jobs available.
“Too often, students get in mind that they want to do a certain type of job and they want to work specific hours, and they don’t want to do this and they don’t want to do that. Every ‘don’t’ they add lessens the opportunities that are available,” Massie said.
In addition, he said summer employment should be used as a building block for another opportunity. However, Massie said mass hiring for summer jobs has already taken place.
“Most of the summer mass hiring has already been done…when you really think of mass hiring, that’s done prior to the summer season,” he said.
“That’s not to be discouraging. There are still summer jobs out there…if students fell a little short this year, they need to keep that in mind for next year.”
Seasonal jobs are not just for summer. They can also be found around the holidays.
“Seasonal employment isn’t just summer employment; a lot of people have that misconception… you also see peaks around the holidays and things like that for other types of seasonal employment,” Massie said.
He said hiring for the holiday seasonal time takes place in early September and October.
If a student is seeking a non-seasonal job, they can use Career Services to find regular employment.
“We have hundreds of jobs posted with us every month. Students can use us for finding employment for what they are going to school for, but they can also use us for finding employment for general types of jobs to be able to pay the bills,” Massie said.
Career Services is also available to graduates, the services they offer are lifetime.
“As long as our doors are open, we’ll be here to serve students and graduates,” Massie said.
The Career Services office is located in Building 10, Room 312. Office hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.