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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
by REBECCA GARDNER
Lifestyles Reporter
It is time again to start preparing for summer school and jobs, but do students know what employers are looking for and how to budget their time and money?
“I look for experience, a nice, clean appearance, and I look at personality,” Macado’s employer Mike Bosse said.
Twenty-eight
percent of Appalachian State University students said they work during
the summer, according to a survey of 20 Appalachian students.
Twenty-four percent of the students who said they work during the
summer said they work with food, 16 percent work at an exercise
facility, 12 percent work at beaches and resorts, 8 percent work as
lifeguards and 40 percent work at other facilities.
“We have about 200 students working for Food Services during the
summer, in addition to taking their classes,” Jim Millen, student
coordinator for Food Services, said.
On average, 5,000 students enroll in summer school each term, according to the Office of Summer Sessions.
Eight-five to 95 percent of employees hired at Macado’s are students during the summer, Bosse said.
More job positions are open in the spring than in the summer because
the summer is so limited and not everything is open, Millen said.
Students get paid roughly the same depending on if they choose to work off campus or on campus.
On campus, Food Services pays its employees $6.25 an hour and 10 cents
more as a raise each semester thereafter if they choose to stick with
Food Services.
As for off campus, Macado’s pays its beginning employees $6.50, more or
less, depending on what job the employee chooses to apply for.
“I remember when I started working, and how I got paid. So I increased
it,” Bosse said. “College students don’t have a lot of money, and I
understand that.”
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