Don't wait too long!

Photo Taken at SUNY Brockport Rakov Center by me

A lot of students wait too long to get a job on campus. What they also don’t know is that on-campus jobs are hard to find when going away to college.

Adam Standish, who works at Career Services at SUNY Brockport, said students wait too long to find a job on campus. “My advice to any freshmen is to come to Career Services to talk to our Career Counselors.”

According to Standish, when students come to career services, “they have the chance to build their resumes and cover letters.”

Career Services provides online programs. “What that does is match the students up with what they want to pursue. We do that so we make sure that students are happy with that occupation and they get to work in the field they plan on getting their degree in,” said Standish.

Standish said a lot of students work on campus. “There are 2,200 jobs on campus for work study and non-work study combine.”

“The only difference between work study and non-work study is where the money comes from. The departments that have money hire non-work study student. While the departments that don’t have money, get money from the government to hire work-study students. But other than that, the pay is the same,” said Standish.

Some students often complain that there are more jobs based on work-study then non-work study but Standish shook his head and said “That’s not true. 2/3 of the jobs on campus are non-work study and 1/3 of the jobs on campus are work study.”

Standish said that students say that because non-work study jobs are more competitive. “Non-work study jobs are open to all 9,000 students. It gets very hard to get a job when students are competing against 9,000 students.”

Using email as their form of communication, Standish strongly encourages students, especially freshmen students, to come to Career Services as soon as possible, check out their workshops that promotes jobs on campus or look at Eagle Connect for job opportunities. Waiting too long won’t do any good and only makes the process harder.