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Unique Benefits Students Have To Offer

Thursday 31 July 2014, 4:51PM

By Pure SEO

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The nature of the jobs students are being contracted for has changed, but students are still a vital source of labour for seasonal hospitality jobs, particularly around Christmas and holiday time. However, as the needs of students have changed markedly in the past ten years, in particular the technology that has become the essential hardware of a student’s life, being a student is not as cheap as it used to be, which means that the students need to chase the higher-paying options.

The many unique benefits students have to offer are their fresh talent, their young minds and the fact that they are IT literate, and in the new knowledge economy, New Zealand businesses can see the benefits of hiring students; they’re smart, they bring technology skills and a willingness to learn. Student jobs are now becoming much more sophisticated and students are currently being placed in contact centre work, data entry roles and even website development. The important thing is that they have an opportunity to gain experience in career-related jobs, develop vital skills and make contact with potential employers.

With regard to the Student Job Search philosophy “Nothing beats experience – get jobs that pay now and later”, employers are now much more likely to give a job to a young person leaving Tertiary education if they already have a reasonable work history. This doesn’t have to be industry-specific but ‘work history’ has become a very important factor. Employers are keen to see that a person has the basic skills and the capacity to put in a good day’s work. Up until now, students have perceived that their chances for obtaining work relied on their getting A-grades at college and university. This is still important but employers now really want to see experience, and Student Job Search is contributing to this by placing students in to over 25,000 jobs per year, and the job matching service has grown from on-campus job boards to a comprehensive national online and call centre service.

Experience is now become the difference between securing and not securing that dream job. In fact, a number of organisations have now introduced formal policies setting out that an employee must have some form of work experience before being offered a job – Student Job Search is providing their opportunity for students.

For more information please visit the website at http://www.sjs.co.nz .


“Nothing Beats Experience – Get jobs that pay now and later!”