The attitude of part-time job among Essays - Employment,

Part-time job is always preferred by university students, and is becoming a common fact of life for university students. According to the International Labour Office, a part-time job is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job. Workers are considered to be part-time if they commonly work fewer than 30 or 35 hours per week. A statistic from Organization for Economic co-operation and Developed show that, the number of part-time workers (aged 19 to 24) has increased one-fifth in the past ten years in New Zealand. (http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=FTPTC_I) There are many reasons for working part-time, including the desire to do so, having one's hours cut back by an employer and being unable to find a full time job. The aim of this report is going to research the attitudes of part-time job among Otago University students. There are a sort of part-time job for students to choose from, such as in restaurant, in hotel, in cafe bar, or in school library and so on. In general point, according to the most of research that investigates why students work reveals that students today are employed for reasons very various. In the last few decades, the reasons for university students to work were to contribute to the financial needs of family, to make money for tuition fee, and to prepare oneself for a future job after university. In some cases, youth employment ' actually assumed the characteristics of an apprenticeship.' (Bedenbaugh &Garvey, 1993, p.75). In the contrast, students taking part-time job now are not only to support themselves due to financial problems, but, some of students they are to satisfy their desire for personal luxuries and consumer goods or to support their current life style. However, some students work part-time job just for their interesting or gaining some social experience.