3 Reasons why Doing a Part-Time Job in University Can Help You In Your Career

Congratulations on starting your university life! Welcome to the part of your academic life where class timetables are more flexible. Plan ahead and you might just find that you have extra time to pursue… a part-time job? Yes, even with Covid and an upcoming recession, recruitment agencies can still be effective in matching you with an employer that needs support for long or short term projects. 

In your first year of university, you might be involved in multiple CCAs, hall activities (if you stay in university accommodation) and a very active social life. However, by your second year, you might start to realise that you’re just coasting along with your academics and start to wonder what your life will be like after university. You might have heard of the phrase ‘do what you’re passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life’. But how would you know what you’re passionate about if you never took time to explore?

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Figuring Out What You Like

Working in a part-time job in the relevant industry of your studies can help you to figure out what you enjoy. Furthermore, it can be a great accompaniment to your theoretical knowledge if you learn best through experiential learning instead of just reading from books. Depending on your interest or faculty of study, you could choose to work in different industries. This is where recruitment services come in, as they have a few employers from different industries such as retail, education, information technology, engineering, education or healthcare. The wide variety of roles from software engineers to project managers or sales will allow you to develop skills that will be transferable to your future jobs. You might also be given responsibilities that will widen your perspective on how to run a sustainable business, or get a glimpse into where that particular industry is headed towards. This, in turn, can help you decide on what modules you want to choose to take in university to further go into that direction. 

Build Your Network

One of the best parts of working a part-time job is that you get to meet new people beyond your university classroom. More often than not, you will realise that it’s really the people that make up a workplace’s culture. By contributing to the work over time, you will inevitably forge a relationship with your managers and coworkers. This will help you to build your network, which is a valuable resource during times such as Covid. Many employers choose to use recruitment agencies to reach out to potential candidates instead of putting available positions on job portals. By putting yourself out there, and building connections, you might just get recommended by your former coworker or manager for another role. You will also start to realise what people do beyond just their job titles and job descriptions, and this helps you to build a better understanding of what role you might want to try for your internship or full time job in future. This might put you in a better position than your peers who are just solely focused on university related activities. 

Earn Money While You Learn

Working in a part-time job can help you to build skills and earn money at the same time! This means that you’ll have more money that you can use to invest in yourself. For example, you can buy yourself more work appropriate clothes, a work bag or makeup. This will contribute to your overall impression, and is a way to make sure you’re prepared once you graduate! 

Not many university students will know that applying to recruitment agencies is one strategy that can help you to get a part-time job, and instead may spend extra time crafting cover letters and resumes and send them via job portals directly. With the help of a recruiter who has direct access to potential employers, you are one step closer to your part-time job experience!

5 Important Characteristics Of A Professional Recruitment Agency

Are you looking for a professional recruitment agency based in Singapore? Do you require staffing solutions but you are unsure of how to find a good recruitment firm and what are the characteristics of a reliable recruitment company? You’re in luck!

We would like to share with our clients the importance of these 5 characteristics below and why it is important that your chosen recruitment agency should have all these traits. If they don’t, then you might run into certain hiccups moving forward.

Comprehensive list of services

Having a partner specializing in a spectrum of recruitment skills and knowledge is vital to employers and job seekers. The prerequisites of recruitment agencies services should be able to include local placement service, temporary and contracting staffing, payroll service and any other related HR outsourcing services. Foreign manpower staffing service is also important as the agency you are engaging with needs to be well experienced when it comes to preparing required documentations of your employees to ensure that the MOM regulations are adhered to during work pass applications.

Industrial specializations

When it comes to working with a selected recruitment agencies in Singapore, you will need to work with one which is well knowledgeable about the industry trends. There are many different industries in Singapore and picking an agency to liaise with whether you are an employer or employee is important as it dictates how much the agency is able to assist you within your hiring or job seeking needs.

International Networking

Considering a strong ally to work with in providing a global perspective is advantageous when an employer is seeking for the cream of the crop profiles on a worldwide search. It will be good to work with agencies either having international offices, or having partnering foreign agencies working within a network to assist job seekers and hiring employers to find the most suitable person or job.

Testimonials

Client testimonials will give job seekers and employers a rough gauge in the level of service you will receive from a prospective recruitment agency, it is advisable to be able to read up on the testimonials provided by their previous or current clients on the level of service provided. It will give job seekers and employers a better idea whether the agency is able to provide the level of service in accordance to their expectations.

Work Ethics & Integrity

This is of critical importance to all job seekers and employers as it is the responsibility of the recruitment agency to be providing truthful information about their candidates or vacancies in Singapore as there have been practices whereby falsified information being given to employers or job seekers which has been causing stereotyping of many recruitment agencies into bad reputation along with the rest. Employers and job seekers should be able to tell so by asking questions on how much does the agency know about the vacancies of their clients or certain details of the candidates before making a decision to engage with the prospective recruitment agency.

Ultimately these are just 5 of the most important characteristics of a recruitment agency while there are more factors out there. Hopefully these details can give job seekers and employers a better insight on which recruitment agencies in Singapore they want to engage.

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