[vls]

I've been applying for part-time jobs and temporary summer jobs but there doesn't seem to be all that many available.

I was thinking of just applying for a permanent position and then quitting once the summer is over, just not mentioning my long-term availability at the beginning. Is this a bad idea? It's not something I'd like to do but I'm not having much luck applying for temp jobs.

[College_Dropout]

By the time you get a permanent position, the summer will most likely be over.

[Rysm]

By asking if it's okay, you're looking for someone to justify it morally for you, which isn't going to happen.

Having said that, I did it, and I'd do it again. It was the summer before I was due to start university and I was in need of temporary employment. The temp market was particularly poor back then and I wasn't having any luck, so I started looking for full time positions. I got one of the first jobs I applied for and was employed within 2 weeks of looking. I worked exactly 9 weeks, handed in my notice and left on exactly 11 weeks of employment. I earned enough money to see me through university and it's something else to add to my CV.

[_music<3]

(Original post by Rysm)
By asking if it's okay, you're looking for someone to justify it morally for you, which isn't going to happen.

Having said that, I did it, and I'd do it again. It was the summer before I was due to start university and I was in need of temporary employment. The temp market was particularly poor back then and I wasn't having any luck, so I started looking for full time positions. I got one of the first jobs I applied for and was employed within 2 weeks of looking. I worked exactly 9 weeks, handed in my notice and left on exactly 11 weeks of employment. I earned enough money to see me through university and it's something else to add to my CV.

Did they know you'd be leaving for uni when the offered you the job? I'm thinking of doing the same thing, I'm in desperate need of university money.

[Rysm]

(Original post by _music<3)
Did they know you'd be leaving for uni when the offered you the job? I'm thinking of doing the same thing, I'm in desperate need of university money.

They did not. And had they asked I would have told them I wasn't planning on going to university.

[willbee]

If you haven't been to uni, you can imply that you're expecting to take a year out, because you don't think you'll get in / don't want to go to uni. Then you can "change your mind" after results day. If you're at uni already this tactic doesn't really work and you shouldn't piss off your employers like that in case you need them in the future as a reference.

If you're at uni already, email all your local businesses with a speculative letter regarding summer work. This is how I got a job last summer and it was less effort than hauling around 100 CVs. I'm a first year uni student atm though, and it is really hard to get a temp job! I only have until mid-October atm and people only tell you its longer than that after the interview! So annoying!

I personally wouldn't outright lie because I look for a lot of work with job agencies and I just wouldn't want to fall out of favour with any potential employers.

[_music<3]

(Original post by Rysm)
They did not. And had they asked I would have told them I wasn't planning on going to university.

Ah ok, thanks

[vls]

(Original post by willbee)
If you haven't been to uni, you can imply that you're expecting to take a year out, because you don't think you'll get in / don't want to go to uni. Then you can "change your mind" after results day. If you're at uni already this tactic doesn't really work and you shouldn't piss off your employers like that in case you need them in the future as a reference.

If you're at uni already, email all your local businesses with a speculative letter regarding summer work. This is how I got a job last summer and it was less effort than hauling around 100 CVs. I'm a first year uni student atm though, and it is really hard to get a temp job! I only have until mid-October atm and people only tell you its longer than that after the interview! So annoying!

I personally wouldn't outright lie because I look for a lot of work with job agencies and I just wouldn't want to fall out of favour with any potential employers.

Did you get many replies to the emails you sent or just from the place which hired you? It's annoying when you don't know if the email will actually be read...

[willbee]

(Original post by vls)
Did you get many replies to the emails you sent or just from the place which hired you? It's annoying when you don't know if the email will actually be read...

Apparently, when you send the emails to most businesses (office-based anyway) they don't read it unless a scanner picks up certain key words, so for every job you apply to just tailor your CV and use of language to the words they use in the job description / company website / etc.

But that job was a massive fluke. A case of right time, right place.

If they have a telephone number, send your CV and ring up in 2 days or so to check that they received it and ask if they have any vacancies. This way you may prompt them to read it and remember you.

It's just pot luck really though. I don't think there is a fool-proof method to getting a job, just perseverance.

[xAlice95]

I think it's alright, I don't personally have any experience but my friend got a job last summer at the end of July/beginning of August (although at the time she was actually intending to carry on with the job) and she then started college and found it all too much and hated the job so quit around october/November time.

So I mean as long as you act like your planning on staying then pretend to change your mind after I don't think it would matter....But like as I say I don't have any personal experience.

Maybe you could find a job in like a chain store place that way you could maybe transfer to a store near your uni when you start in Summer?