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Tips for finding PT jobs
Aside from scholarship, many SI students do part-time job to support their lives here in Ann Arbor. The pay is unlikely to be enough for tuition, but could at least afford half of your living expense. In this article, I will focus primarily on the tips for international student in that thing are ALWAYS complicated for international student.
For international students, you can do ON-campus work, meaning that the employer and its property should be UM property in order to be counted as on-campus, for at most 20 hours per week according to the policy here. You are not allowed to work off-campus, such as restaurant, or exceeding the 20 hours limit per week.
You can check here for detailed information:
http://www.umich.edu/~icenter/immig/fvisa/f_emploption.html
PS: Due to the change of the policy in 2005, international students have to obtain an on-campus job in order to apply for Social Security Number, which is quite important here. You need it when you apply for off-campus housing, cell phone and etc. Or you may be required for deposit during application, which is quite annoying!
In your first semester, I recommend that you work at most for 10 hours, since you need time to adapt the new environment. There are various kinds of PT jobs available here, such as library assistant, lab assistant and the likes. Once you enroll, you will be subscribed to the SI mailling list, which will have PT, intern and FT jobs information email to you frequently. You can also have access to iTrack, our job posting system, to look for PT jobs posted there.
Also, you can check the following websites for possible PT jobs:
http://www.studentemployment.umich.edu/
http://www.umich.edu/~websvcs/genmed/
http://www.housing.umich.edu/general/jobs.html
http://www.soe.umich.edu/students/index.html
http://www.lib.umich.edu/hr/employment/student_job.html
http://uuis.umich.edu/onlineApps/index.cfm
Posted by chanwei at March 26, 2007 11:29 AM
