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Issue date: 8/21/08 Section: Orientation

If you can't find the job you're looking for in the classifieds, you might find it here at Daytona State College.
DSC offers many opportunities for students to find work on and off campus. Those unsure of what they want to do can take advantage of online and print resources in the Career Center to aid them in their job searches.
Students seeking work at the college can take part in the Student Employment Program. It offers part-time positions for students to finance costs related to school expenses and helps develop valuable skills and abilities through its employment and training.
"The idea of the Student Employment Program is to provide the student employee with job skills that will carry them throughout their chosen career paths," says Rick Briggs, Coordinator of Student Employment.
Students are allowed to work a maximum of 20 hours a week. This restriction is to prevent interference with studies and classes and to permit as many students as possible to participate in Student Employment. Most students are drawn to the program for its convenience.
According to Briggs, 95 percent of the jobs offered by Student Employment operate during the college's 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours.
With the cost of gas continuing to rise, student employees do not face the added expense of commuting from the college to an off-campus workplace.
"When you work in the Student Employment Program, you don't have to put gas in your car to go to work," Briggs points out.
Computer Engineering student Marcell Carter, 22, believes the wide selection of on-campus jobs benefits students looking for work experience in their major.
"It gives me job experience in the field I'm trying to get into and helps me pay whatever financial aid can't cover," Carter says.
The program has two sources of pay: Federal Work-Study and Institutional Work-Study. FWS requires students to be a financial aid recipient AND must have FWS eligibility, which is not automatic. IWS does not require students to be financial aid recipients.
Each semester there is a four-week window where most new positions become available and eventually fill, beginning two weeks before the current semester ends and ending by the second week of classes in the new semester. Beyond that, on-campus jobs are offered whenever they become available. The semester with the most job openings available is the fall.
To find out what on-campus positions are currently available, check out the bulletin board located outside Bldg. 100, Rm. 208 on the Daytona campus.

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