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It’s not difficult to get a part-time job as an international student. To be blunt, the turnover for these jobs is high, people move on quickly, and these roles are easily replaceable. For you, that can be a good thing. Just means there are many places that are always hiring new staff.I worked part-time in different jobs while I was studying for a bachelor and then a master degree in Melbourne. Compared to getting a full-time position after graduation, getting a part-time gig was a delicious piece of cheesecake. And it will be good practice for you.Okay, some tips on getting a job whilst studying.Get your stuff ready.Apply and get your Tax File Number, you’ll need it for various things including logging your payment details with employers (so they can pay your tax properly). Link to apply online: Foreign passport holders, permanent migrants and temporary visitors - TFN application.Get a one-page (or two, if you must) CV ready. Don’t worry about making it look pretty or perfect. It’s best if it’s clean, easy to scan and skim. Not too many columns or fonts (if you apply online your CV might go through a computer system which will screw up the formatting anyway.) In fact, just use Arial.Don’t bother with “career objective”. Name, contact details on top; then a quick summary of who you are and what you offer; then Education; then Experience; Skills and Hobbies etc - optional.(In fact I’d advise that everyone, not just students, should use something similar for their CV. Except that once you’ve graduated, then you should switch the order of Education and Experience around.)Something like this:and don’t worry too much about getting the CV perfect either. You can worry about that kind of stuff later on when you’re trying to get a full-time job. (Not to dismiss the importance of tailoring your application and putting lots of effort into applying for a part-time or casual role; but I think when people say “I just want to do it right!” it’s usually a way to procrastinate or delay actually doing something.)Get yourself ready. You might need to do a phone interview - are you confident speaking on the phone with a stranger? How good is your English?Get some practice. Look up popular interview questions and practice what you may say in response. I type my responses down in a word doc — which often reveals that I take too long to get to the point, and helps me clear my head to come up with short, straightforward answers (with examples ready to go).Also is a good idea to have a smart casual outfit ready for your in person interviews. Formula: dress a little better than the staff who’re already working at that company in similar roles.For most roles, something like the below are perfect.Ok, so once you’ve got all that ready to go (shouldn’t take any more than 1 week), move on to the next step:2. Looking for a job:For part-time jobs in Melbourne when you are a student, I mean literally looking for a job. You can search on job boards such as SEEK, but to be honest, you will just face an endless stream of roles and intense competition for each of them (everyone can and will apply for all the jobs you are applying for. How confident are you in your CV?) Job boards will come in handy later for full time roles.At this stage, it can be sufficient for you to try the below:Literally look for places (either near your school or your home) that may need new staff. It’s important that it’s near where you live or study, so that scheduling and commuting won’t be a problem down the track. Unlike uni - where you skip classes whenever you feel like it (trust me, you will) - work is not easy to skip out on (you’ll get fired).There are always retailers / restaurants / stores looking for new floor staff. My second job in Australia - I just took a walk around a nearby shopping center, noted the stores that are hiring, and came back the next day to drop my CV with the manager. It was a retail job at an upmarket menswear company, very simple stuff, paying ~ $25–28 per hour. (I became very good at ironing men’s shirts and also developed a liking for smooth jazz.).So walk around your neighborhood, where there’s lots of foot traffic and stores. You will spot signs like this posted out front:Even if there’s no sign out front, retail shops / restaurants are ALWAYS looking for new staff. Apply anyway if you want to work at a particular company. Check their website, I bet you there’s a section to apply for a job with them online, or an email address you can send your CV to. And you can always just walk into a store, ask to speak to the manager and give them your CV.Extra hustling: phone them up / follow up in person a few days after applying. If you’re like me (a little shy and introverted) most of the times you can get away with just a smart and interesting subject line & cover letter. All you want is to get them interested enough to meet you for an interview. And it’s not hard.There will also be suitable jobs posted on your university website’s job board as well. If you’re not sure what that is, ask the Student Services Center at uni. My third job in Australia was as an academic tutor at Melbourne University. It was my favourite role, actually. So rewarding, fun, and boy did it pay well.I’ll stop here, because seriously, if you do the 3 things listed above, you’ll identify at least 5–10 possible roles in a week.Shortlist them, and move on to the next steps.3. Actually applying for the jobTake the CV (step 1), add a short cover letter / email, send or hand in at the place you’ve found (step 2).Follow up after a few days.4. Not performing terribly at the interviewsIf you seem calm, collected, and can articulate your answers reasonably well at the interview — you will probably get the job.Give it a good go, and you’ll see, it’s not as scary as you might think :)But, what if I’m not confident in my English or if I don’t have any experience??Get as much practice as possible. Talk to your new classmates, talk to your neighbor, get comfortable with making conversation.Look back at the things you’ve done in your home country, I’m sure you can find certain things you can count in your Experience section.There’s nothing wrong with having no experience in a particular industry or job. Try to illustrate or explain to the employer that you can learn quickly and will learn quickly. Show examples from the past when you’ve learnt something on the job.You can get more experience by doing volunteering work for a little while at first.When I first came to Australia to study, in my first week I took a walk around the neighborhood and found a little op-shop (like Savos) around the corner. Op-shops rely on volunteers to run their stores. So I came in and offered to help them out.I only worked there for a little while, but it was a good experience: as a newcomer it was an opportunity for me to talk to as many locals as possible everyday, it gave me direct experience as a salesperson working retail, I could count it as experience working in Australia, and I got a nice local reference to add to my CV. I also became more confident once I’ve got that under my belt. It made me think “oh, I can do this, no problem!”.I didn’t get paid for my work at the op-shop, but I felt useful and it helped me get a well paid retail job right away.And of course, you can find work for which you don’t need to speak English all the time. I have many friends who’ve done cleaning or manual labour work, farm work, or have worked at Vietnamese restaurants (where they can speak in their mother tongue with others). And that’s an option. I myself did work for a Viet bakery for a few months - I learnt how to slice bread and other things, but the pay was bad so I left for a better gig.The only reason why I wouldn’t recommend it too highly is because you may get ripped off (they usually pay cash under the table, far below the minimum wage) and it doesn’t push you to improve your English or your experience in Australia. It’s comfortable to just hang out with your own community, speak your language, .. so most people don’t try harder.And that’s a bit of a waste of your time living overseas, you know?Well, I hope that helps.Go for it!

It will beIt become good source of income especially for people those who are unemployed but work need to be done with your efforts.Some work are genuine and having good income but students should do it but job market changes with economic impact.Parents pressurise for government job and it happens time wasted in preparation because government job is not east to have. We need to educate children for other sources of income because rich become richer due to that.It depend on recognition and management because good reputed companies have websites and offices and network marketing companies are also there which created many good people but people but it need hard work and after sometime passive income will be there but select companies with best ways.Well good organisations matter which include good staff, good atmosphere and especially hire best people.Typing jobs are also of many types and need to check before join.Some people pay for hiring but check it carefully before pay.Many home based jobs are listed on job portals but some of them are good and provide good quality of work like insurance companies take money but this money have receipt and paid to IRDA which is genuine and good part time income and people who wants to be rich always plans other sources but it should be ethical to society.

(Answer edited with more information Sept 2020)Yes, once.A little history here - back in 2011, two of my colleagues and I decided to leave the sinking ship that was our former employer; officially, as stated in our exit interviews, it was because our teams clients (we were a bespoke service for large corporate private medical claims) had been ring-fenced so the future of our role was tenuous to say the least. Without actually looking, we were contacted by a recruiter who knew the changes being made by our former employer, and we were lucky enough to be picked to start up a team launching a brand new product for what was at that time a very small company.This was a huge gamble for us despite the situation with our former employer, to leave a relatively secure job for a start up company we knew little about. Our decision was spurred on mainly due to the fact that our former manager was bullying me and another person on our small team in a well covered but very nasty manner, and despite my careful detailing of the incidents in a diary and email printout evidence on behalf of myself and the staff member too scared to speak up herself, the company effectively closed ranks and ignored my allegations. Not particularly relevant, but if anyone's curious, the bullying manager was fired less than a year later due to the slew of bullying/harassment claims made against her from the 8 people they'd hired to replace my friends and I - without us there the rest of the ‘old’ team left quickly, but the manager obviously felt she was bulletproof since my allegations caused no consequences for her and was either stupid or just inherently cruel enough to continue her bullying with new victims. Thankfully, my actions DID end up helping others even though I don't know the individuals involved, I'm thankful that what was a very difficult and frustrating outcome for me spared others having to go through the same. I heard from another person who left my former employer for my current one that the reason the manager was fired was because HR could no longer ignore the claims made against her. The area of the UK I live in hosts the majority of jobs in this particular industry, and it's no secret that the former manager is blacklisted amongst other future employers. Apologies for the digression, but it does explain somewhat how much it meant to me having a new boss after the awful experience with the former one.So, other than my best friend and I, only one person was recruited for that team at our new company before us, our manager, let's call her Anna. She was and is an incredible manager, a very inspiring person and a wonderful friend. We all formed a great bond in those early months particularly, the level of work gradually increased so that we went from having so little work that we were assisting other departments with basic tasks, making umpteen cups of tea and coffee, cleaning out stationery cupboards etc, to having to put in 12hr days and Saturday overtime to cope whilst new staff were trained. It was a stressful, but incredibly exciting few years, and very gratifying to see our hard work pay off and our company as a whole make an impressive name for itself in the industry - the gamble had paid off beyond anything we could have imagined!In early 2018I had an attempted gallbladder removal which failed but left me with a severe infection causing cellulitis in both my legs. I was off work for months, the infection caused my legs to swell to about 4x their size and constantly leak fluid. Without going into graphic detail (I have some horrific photos from that time!) the skin on my legs degraded to the point where there was no longer any actual skin below my knees. I did receive home nursing care throughout this by the way.One morning I went to the bathroom, walking was a huge struggle and I used a stick. I fell and was trapped with the stick tangled up with my legs, and no strength to get up. Luckily I had my phone in my dressing gown pocket and called for an ambulance and then for my best friend (one of the colleagues who moved to the new company with me) as she had a key to my flat. Unfortunately the communal entrance door was locked and my vile, drug dealing ex neighbours upstairs saw the blue flashing lights from the ambulance and wouldn't answer the door thinking it was the police. My friend was frantic, trying to get builders down the street to break the door in, shouting for the neighbours to open up, meanwhile I had passed out. I was there for 3 hours before the fire brigade managed to climb in through my first floor window and let the paramedics in. I was delirious by that point but as they brought me out my boss was there, having sent my distraught friend home, and she reassured me that she would contact my family who live abroad.I spent about 6 weeks in hospital, I was in a coma, suffered double pneumonia, multiple organ failure and sepsis and several times was not expected to survive the night. My boss visited me regularly on her lunch breaks even when I was unconscious and after the coma when I couldn't communicate verbally but only write.I did return to work briefly about 6 months after the accident but as I have been left with a brain injury causing partial paralysis and epilepsy I currently am unable to work. She still meets with me regularly to keep me updated on developments on our team (now grown from 3 people to over 100!) and has reassured me that my job as a senior member of staff is still there for me when I'm able to return even if it's part time. I couldn't ask for a better, more supportive boss, in fact the company itself has been incredible, they are still paying me 2 years after the event, still paying my pension, share scheme and for my private medical insurance.I'm currently waiting to be rehoused by my local council in an adapted property. Once I am my employer has already made preparations for me to work from home and visit the office as much or as little as I want. I appreciate very much how lucky I am to work for such a genuinely caring company and that has only made me more loyal to them. I am desperate to get back to work and start repaying some of the incredible kindness they have shown me.Edit: I originally put this in a response to a comment but thought it would be appropriate to add it to my main post and with a slight expansion.Since writing my initial post I have completed the ridiculously complicated and unnecessarily difficult process of being assessed by the DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) in order to receive income support whilst I am unable to work. Due to the particular situation I am in I am in the somewhat unusual position of actually receiving about 30% more ‘take home pay’ than I would if I returned to work in the same position I previously held. Despite this, largely because my employer is so good and I genuinely love my job, I am anxious to return to work as soon as possible. To me, my quality of life will be better working, being productive and able to socialise with my colleagues, even if it is mostly working from home and part time at that.The alternative is doing nothing but stay at home. I still fill my days with reading, learning, writing, finding new hobbies etc., but I can see how easy it would be for someone in my position to just stagnate in front of the TV all day and become a shut in. I survived for a reason so I'm certainly not going to let that happen!If anyone cares about the numbers side of it, here's a brief explanation of how the (ever changing!) benefits system currently works in the UK.Universal Credit (UC) is based on your age and relationship status. As a single woman aged between 25 - 64 with no children I am entitled to £317 basic UC, £336 Limited capability for work and work related activities, and £535 housing costs per month.Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is comprised of 2 components, Daily Living and Mobility, each paying either a standard or enhanced rate if you qualify for either. This benefit is notoriously difficult to get and a huge percentage of people have to appeal decisions, 73% of appeals go on to be successful! After my successful appeal I receive the standard daily living rate and enhanced mobility rate which equates to £519.56 a month. Receiving the enhanced mobility rate also entitles me to access the motability scheme where a portion of your PIP (no more than £61.20 a week) can be sacrificed to lease a brand new car for 3 years, inclusive of tax, insurance for up to 3 drivers and maintenance. I can't yet take advantage of this as my epilepsy isn't sufficiently controlled but by June I am looking forward to having the freedom to get out!So if I didn't return to work I'd receive £1709.53 (I'd left off some penny amounts earlier if anyone's checking my maths!)In work full time I was taking home after tax, student loan repayments, national insurance and salary sacrifice for pension and the tax - not capital - on my company private medical insurance ~£1,450. On that wage I had to also pay my rent of £600 pcm, utilities, living costs etc and council tax of £1176 in 10 installments a year.Now I am exempt from council tax and I need to move to an adapted property, this isn't something I can do privately as you can't modify a rented home, so I'm on the housing register. The average rent is around £240 pcm, so I'll be saving a massive amount.Until I can legally drive again I can use my PIP to pay around £12 a week for a mobility scooter, but as I also have a free bus pass I would rather wait until I can get a car since I want to be able to transport my dog, do shopping, travel outside of my local area if needed.There are many flaws in the system and a lot of people would think that I am lucky to receive so much in benefits when most struggle on them, but the reason my allowances are higher than normal is because of my disabilities and the chronic pain and fatigue caused. As I said earlier I will be returning to work God willing, and whilst my UC will be affected I won't lose the other benefits. The affect on UC is that for every £1 I earn I lose 60p of UC, so I'll never actually be losing money.Yet another thing I have to be very grateful for as a UK citizen. The application and assessment process is stringent and very flawed - there are articles in the news daily about corrupt assessors and a system designed to make it as difficult as possible to claim, it's taken me around 8 months from my application to being awarded the entitlements I've listed which entailed filling in multiple forms and attending 5 face to face interviews along with submitting all my medical records for the last 2 years. I'm glad it's done now (for another 3 years anyway) but I'm also very grateful that our welfare system will provide assistance when its needed.Update September 2020: I'm now back at work part time!! I am so very happy about this, as you can imagine I am working from home and this is going to be the case for the foreseeable future, regardless of the COVID situation. As I am considered ‘highly vulnerable’ due to my medical history I have been, and will remain, in isolation for at least the next 6 months as the UK enters its second lockdown. I'm very sad that I've not been able to see my mum for over a year now, but the good news with my new arrangement for home working means that by using a VPN I can work anywhere, even abroad, without a problem. I am very much hoping that once life has returned to some form of normality I will be less restricted than before with trips to visit family abroad given that I wouldn't have to take time off work in order to do it!ANOTHER UPDATE: DEC 2020: Well, despite the utter shitshow this year has turned out to be, I'm now on my new 14 hours a week contract and whilst waiting for arrangements to be made for me to complete my FCA mandated 50 hours of annual training as well as the necessary medical retraining and department specific exams I'm beginning to work through the 40k odd emails accrued in my absence! Only a couple of people on my team actually know that I'm ‘back’ (um, working from a laptop in PJs on my sofa with a cup of tea!) so it's been rather fun observing my team working without knowing I'm there! I'm INCREDIBLY happy to be able to say that I'm now only receiving about 30% of the Universal Credit support I was previously on - whilst I certainly couldn't have survived without the government assistance, I am lucky that with the support of my employer I am regaining at least my financial independence.Unfortunately, my health has deteriorated significantly in the last few months. I have 3 vertebrae in my lower back which are pretty much shattered from a combination of trauma, stress fractures and bone degeneration (I've suffered malnutrition on and off since my teens/early 20s, and certain medication I've been on has contributed to early onset osteoporosis) and despite beginning treatment with Fentanyl patches in July this year, I am unable to do anything that involves bending, twisting, standing for longer than 10 minutes - and even then if I can lean on something like the kitchen counter. So I am going to have to continue claiming PIP in order to pay for the lady who comes in to clean and tidy my flat for me, I'm unable to even go down the 7 steps to the street to put out rubbish! Again I am very lucky though, she goes far above and beyond what most cleaners would and does things like arranging the tins in the cupboard by type and taking a photo so I'm not hunting for things, she brought little cardboard boxes to make ‘drawers’ in them so I could easily reach small packets on the shelves, she is a god send - quite literally as I was put in touch with her through a mutual acquaintance at our church! Since I'm getting worse though I need her help more often, so much as I'd like to go back to being financially independent I need to continue claiming PIP at least - but it's not something I can change and I know that I needn't feel guilty over a genuine need, hopefully one day I'll believe myself!!