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Part Time Careers
November 29th, 2009 | 
Author: How to find the best part time careers?
Well for a start, you can talk with your local network of people to see if they know any available positions. This is important to determine if there are any “quick careers” available. Also, you can look on local job sites, or post your resume on thousands of job sites at the same time.
What is important to keep in mind is that you can easily spend a lot of time looking for the right type of careers, so it is important to move quickly. Spending a few dollars to have a resume properly printed, or to work with a job search or resume submission service has the potential to further your search
Part Time Careers – My Top Pieces of Advice
- internship careers – Start your career off right with the best internship careers
- Part Time Vacancy – Get the right new types of work by trying out different opportunities
- entry level careers – Look for the best ways to start with the right part time careers
- part time jobs uk – As a local or a foreigner, part time jobs in the UK can be a great find
It can be very hard to pick the best way to start looking for part time careers – however after going through all the amazing tips and reviews available on the internet, I think I’ve been able to get the best collection of information on part time careers!
How do I pick the best part time careers?
I use 5 factors to determine the best options for part time careers.
What are the 5 factors?
- Income potential (short term)
- Income potential (long term)
- Experience Required
- On the Job Training
- Resume Building Potential
You can read more about the factors by looking through this blog
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How Are Career Change and Reputation Related?
Career change and reputation – in many ways, they go hand in hand.
Hiring
agents will always look at a resume from many different angles – and
one thing that a resume does not do well is show a pattern of career
change.
Resumes are built so that people with long term,
reliable history look the best, while those with short, changing
careers do not.
There are, however, ways to break this trend, and ensure you’re presenting yourself the best way possible.
- Be Ready for the Objection
Many recruiters will simply ask why you changed positions so often.
It’s
good to have an answer ready for this – focus on the need for
additional challenges, or “extenuating circumstances” if there are any.
Keep in mind that if they’re asking the question, they’re willing to take your response into consideration.
Try
to avoid saying that you changed positions because of internal
conflicts or challenges at one location – even if this occurred.
Showing “conflicts” in past work history will only lead people to think that you’re likely to be in those situations again.
- Put it out in the open
Keep in mind, that the correlation between career change and reputation is mostly perceived – that is, a recruiter will look at you through that “lens” until you can do something to change it.
In an interview, bring up the subject before the interviewer does.
If
you bring the topic up, it shows that you’re not afraid of this part of
your background – and it may prevent the recruiter from feeling they
need to dig here any further.
Bring the conversation back to
your long term goals, and how this potential job meets them – that will
show a recruiter that you’re looking to focus on the long term, and
that this opportunity is a way to get there.
- Offer to Be Flexible
Instead
of trying to negotiate the largest salary out of the block, offer to
show your long term commitment with a lower starting salary, with the
opportunity for major review and revision or a retention bonus at the
3, 6, 9, or 12 month mark.
This will show that you are interested in the long term prospects of the job, and not just the short term potential.
Often,
the largest cost to an employer is the “on boarding” process – getting
you familiar with their systems, and working in their environment cost
them money – many employers will be protective of this, and try to make
sure that you’re the right “fit” for the long term.
Quick cash with part time careers
Making cash revolves around two things: bringing money in, and reducing the amount of money going out.
Here’s some quick ways to do both with part time careers
- Sell your english skills
With the increase in immigration in most english countries, tutoring english as a second language is a great way to make additional income (it’s also a great way to meet interesting people you might not have and later have a chance to travel!)
Tutoring also helps you understand your own language. By going back to basics, it helps you understand a lot of the way people speak.
If you’re not an english expert, there’s ways to also tutor to high school or entry level university students in your field.
- Work nearby
Finding part time careers near home or your campus is the best way to keep costs down – saving a half hour of travel time each way saves transport costs and means you can work an extra hour a day!
Consider the “total value” when you’re looking at part time careers.
- Sell, sell, sell!
Sales and marketing companies are always looking for people. I know one individual who paid his whole tuition selling kitchen knives door to door! (he got so well known people just phoned in referrals after a while!)
Marketing companies often run short promotions, focusing on getting a new product advertised. Being available for these projects can be very lucrative for short time income in your part time careers.
- Walk down the street
The best part time careers aren’t always advertised – in fact they hardly never are.
Ask around at local shops, in pubs and restaurants, and with people you know.
Great places to work hardly ever have to post their jobs, as they’re already filled by the time word of mouth gets around.
Make a career change by focusing on part time careers
A friend of mine’s sister went through about 6 years of university education to get a degree in engineering.
She slaved away for that time, went heavily into debt, and was an A student.
During that time she held a number of part time careers, from waitressing to teaching sports, always focused on the objective.
She was hired by a top engineering company 6 months before she graduated, at the top of her class.
On the first day of her job, she was given her office (very sizable) and her workstation (top of the line), and left her to it.
As her new boss closed the door to her office, it hit her:
She would spend the next 40 years of her life, in front of a work station, working on CAD.
No change, this office, while fantastic, would be her prison.
She quit and walked out that afternoon.
Imagine the time and money put towards this venture. All too often, I’ve seen people spend years of their lives, working towards a goal in their career, only to realize that it’s not what they really wanted.
While I have all the respect in the world for her, imagine if she had taken 3 months over a summer, and offered to work for an engineering company as one of her part time careers.
Or, imagine if while in university, she had focused her part time work on areas that she thought she might like.
By getting your feet wet in an industry, you have a ton of benefits
- You get to know people
Industries move in small circles, and usually everybody knows each other. A reputation can be built on knowing people in an industry, and communicating with them.
- You get to see your future
Look at the people who have spent their life in a career – if you follow this path, you most likely will end up similar to their situation when you reach their age.
Looking at their life down the road lets you see your future life through a window – from here you can make an informed choice as to whether or not it’s “for you.”
- It’s an easier transition
The easiest transitions in the career world come from the one-step transitions.
That is, if you’re a computer engineer for a railway company, and would like to become a salesperson for a telephone company, there’s two good ways and one bad way to make a transition.
The two good ways to make a transition are to go from computer engineer to salesperson at the railway company – this is a relatively easy transition, as you likely already understand the ins and outs of your industry. From here, the transition to salesperson a telephone company is much easier – you already understand sales, and learning telephones is a relatively easy process as the activity is similar, just a different product
The other good way to transition is to go from being a computer engineer at a railway company to a computer engineer at a telephone company – this way you can learn the industry and then the transition to sales is easier.
Moving directly from one to the other, however, can be very difficult – it presents a much bigger learning curve, and often a larger drop in income, due to making a number of switches at once.
In this case, part time careers can help, as they can expose you to different experience based on where you want to go.
If you can’t find part time work in the field you’d like to be in, focus on similar activities.
For example, if you’re in an introverted or administrative position, and want to be in a people focus your part time careers on work that involves people – working in a restaurant, tourist bureau, or teaching a sport.
If you’re in a people based career and need to improve your organization skills, try focusing your part time careers on data entry or paperwork based skills.
These careers may not be the most lucrative at the moment, however the ability to gain extra skills to round out your portfolio can be very helpful.
The two most popular part time careers on the web
Of all the potential part time careers availalbe on the web, two are definetly the most popular: Surveys and Data entry.
The benefits to these are that, with a little work and finding the right companies that do these types of work, extra part time income can be easily, reliably, and legitimately had.
Data entry involves low skill, can be done in the warmth and comfort of your own home (or home abroad, if you’re travelling). There’s no commute, no angry customers, and bad weather means that you can be sitting on your couch, drinking warm tea, without having to go outside.
It normally involves reading information and typing it into a computer.
Surveys are the second of the most popular part time careers on the web. By simply asking questions about your consumption habbits, or what you think of products or ideas, you can be paid, either in cash or gift certificates for popular stores.
This can be a great way to offset the cost of many purchases you’d be making anyways!
Imagine if the cost of your groceries could be had by sitting in front of the television and giving your opinion to your laptop!
When looking for any of these jobs, it’s important to ensure that you’re working with a credible organization.
There are a number of companies out there in this market that are complete frauds, and are only in business to try to swindle innocent people out of their time and money.
Doing proper research is the best way to ensure that your time is in the best shape.
NEVER pay money to a company to sign up for their surveys or data entry, often these services are the biggest fraud.
