Best place for a student to work?

Parisien

I was wondering if there was a top ten list of fav/best student employers for new university entrants?

Secondly, who were the worst bottom ten student employers !!!!???

Feel free to tell of your experiences and recommendations, including rates per hour and working conditions.

Perversia

Most people I know who worked (which wasn't many as Imperial College seem to work their students 9-5 and then some) just worked for the student union, either as bar staff or stewards for events. The only work I did was Outreach stuff where I helped mentoring summer schools and other events during the year.

shopaholicsan

My daughter just started work at The Hilton Hotel in Manchester. Only casual work but great perks - after 3 months she gets huge hotel discounts along with discounts for Apple, Days out like Alton Towers etc, Orange and some others I can't remember. Good training and conditions and free meals/£4 towards taxi fares when finishing after 11pm.

knowledgeman

If you have sense tell them to look at a financial institution or office job

Once your in and trained they are normally very flexible and the pay and benefits !!!! all over bar work

The_One_Who

You'd be needing something that allowed for weekend and/or evening work, depends how much money you need. If you're only looking for weekend work then you have quite a lot of choice with a variety of shops, bars, call centres, hotels - basically everywhere. The challenge will be to find somewhere that will hire you to work only on the weekends. If you need to work evenings too then you can rule out shops.

However, if you need a job then I think pretty much anywhere that will take you should be enough.

C_Ronaldo

Laso depends how many hours a week the uni recommends students should work, im at college and they recommend we work a minimum of 12 hours a week,

ka7e

Sainsbury's do student contracts. 10% discount after probationary period, 15% at certain times of the year. Access to reduced food, DS even got free food on certain evening shifts!
Unsociable hours payments and extra for working Bank Hols (according to which type of contract you are on). Pays £5.75 per hr for over 18s.

JustWonderful

I work at Superdrug, which is good, not great...

You get 5.35/hour with a 10% discount on all products (including perfumes, ideal xmas pressies!), it is going up to 30% on Superdrugs own range in November i think.

Not sure about hours though...i average about 15-20 but might be different elsewhere.

knowledgeman

JustWonderful wrote: »

I work at Superdrug, which is good, not great...

You get 5.35/hour with a 10% discount on all products (including perfumes, ideal xmas pressies!), it is going up to 30% on Superdrugs own range in November i think.

Not sure about hours though...i average about 15-20 but might be different elsewhere.

Again I reiterate work for a bank, financial services firm or something like that

I did and the hours etc were far btter than anywere else

They were flexible
they paid more than shops
annual bonus
free shares
paid full sick and holidays
the chance to train for professional qualifications
good holiday entitlement
career breaks etc all available for exams
All bank holidays

IMO a basic shop, bar, restaurant job etc will never be able to match the above

Parisien

Thanx for all the tips so far........again....places to absolutely stay clear of?

vixarooni

Anywhere big like debenhams. Students always come and go in the debenhams i work because they transfewr down for christmas/summer ect then go back to work up wherever they study the rest of time. Theyre quite flexible.