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Studying and working at the same time: part time jobs

The worker-students often use distance education, reductions in day or night shifts. From the ubiquitous "working or studying?" The increasingly recurring "study and work." The first decades of life are concerned, in general, combining training and leisure. But some time add to this burden, also the day of a job. The shortage of scholarships, the limited supply of hours in classroom and corporate rigidity leads to most of these students to alternative prescriptions as distance education, reductions in time or choose as the night shift.

Working and studying at the same time is not more widespread trend, but there are many people who are forced to face their training in this way. Motives? They are very different. Many linked to the lack of resources to deal with tuition and academic, others linked to the inability to leave a job, under pretexts economic, educational or family. The least often by distrust, understanding that the student stage appears as a dead end, with few employment opportunities. Dominant trend in the past, the community of student-workers is rather low. Unlike in Spain in the middle of last century, in this new era are few who bear both tasks. Times have changed and some more, some less is able to afford a career. However, as access to college becomes democratic, they also increase the difficulties of combining study and employment. Ill-assorted companions. If reconciling work and personal life is already a sort of trapeze role, study hours sumarle also ends up becoming a pole test in true Olympic style. Overcoming requires tailored solutions and a strong will and discipline the student.

In Article 44, the Universities Act recognizes the right of students to receive "academic attention that allows to reconcile their studies with work." However, Administration and universities still hamper to make this happen. The shortage of scholarships, the limited supply of hours in classroom and business stiffness prescriptions lead to alternatives such as distance education, reductions in hours or shifts as night. And to push this hard work is needed, above all, both the student effort, and its environment, the educational community and the administration. The supply of school hours in late-night shift allows many people to finish school without giving up a job The supply of school hours in late-night shift allows many people with intellectual interests who left the completion of studies in adolescence or early adulthood without having to give up a job. So says Elisa De Dios, chief of research at the Institute that turn Cisneros, in which 85% of their students work. Specifically, 250 people aged over 16 make up the little free time that they leave their working hours "stealing time at the weekend."

The independent study requires the ability to personal time management, responsibility, autonomy and a strong commitment to individual goals. Therefore, we must be clear why you want to review and if it is discovered that is relevant, identify strategies to reconcile the academic life with the dedication to family and work. In this way is especially recommended that students should do as soon as possible to acquire the study skills. In other words, learn to study. This is important:

* Differentiate time of study and work.
* Commit to the hours devoted to academic life.
* Be consistent and disciplined.
* Set yourself times, albeit reduced.
* Cover only what you can.
* Identify own strengths and weaknesses to work on it.
* Ask for help to teachers, family, the company, which is required to grant at least the hours of examination. Sometimes it also granted the day and even the day before to prepare.
* Learn rewarded. After a job well done, it should be rewarded.

The best summer jobs: most seeked parttime jobs

Telemarketers, business, flight attendants, medical practitioners and nurses, in addition to the sectors related to hospitality, tourism and leisure have the highest demand in summer. The need to cover sick leave for vacation in companies opens the range of demand for workers in various production sectors. This is not only limited to tourism: the contracts between June and September increased to 47%. While dominant temporal mode, the profile of the most sought after and most sought after activities offer an opportunity especially for young people both in industry and services sector. How and where to focus your search for that summer is an excellent opportunity to obtain employment?

The employment contract in the period from June to September sees a significant increase compared to the rest of the year. The summer season causes a revival of the labor market because of increased demand for labor related to tourism, as a result of the need to cover the losses produced by the influx of holiday visitors to the main cities of Spain. This increased demand is reflected in the creation of new jobs in the financial, distribution, logistics and customer service in shops, among others. Due to the wide range of jobs, summer also becomes a time of job opportunities, especially for young students or recent graduates seeking their first job. These months can be presented as the perfect opportunity to supplement their theoretical and practical training and gain experience for future career plans.

Where to focus your search. Sectors related to hospitality, tourism and leisure have the highest demand for labor in the summer: cooks, waiters and hotel receptionists are the most requested languages for restaurants and hotels. But the hotel is not the only activity within tourism providing employment. Also, travel agents, tour guides, socio-cultural and free time monitors are the workers "star" of the summer for travel agencies, theme parks and entertainment centers. Here there is a double movement that reinforces the demand on the one hand these sectors should replace employees on vacation and, secondly, to strengthen the squad due to an increase in customers. There are other jobs for various reasons are in great demand by businesses in the summer season

* Telephone operators, receptionists and managers of telemarketing companies languages for roadside assistance, because the offsets are triggered at this time of year.
* Commercial and coordinators call centers. The insurance and security sales launch their campaigns in this period, so they need to create or strengthen their teams.
* Managers outlets or zone delegates, the device responsible for all commercial and logistical as well as promoters and hostesses. This is because coastal areas are carried out launches of new products through promotions.
* Assemblers scenarios, light and sound technicians and personnel from ticket sales. Most concerts and events throughout the country are made in the summer, causing an increase in demand for these jobs.
* Cashiers, clerks, replenishment, editors image exchange facilities, ATM banking, administrative assistants or commercial sale of credit cards, due to population increase in tourist areas and the need to cover the losses of the holidays.
* Medical and nursing care. Health services are also reinforced in areas frequented by many tourists as well as hospitals, clinics and staff to each other are also demanding the replacement for the holidays.

Profiles hired requested the profile at this time of year is that of a person up to 25 years with language skills, according to the findings of the consultant in human resources ADECCO. Indeed, last summer, between June and September-, 40% of recruitment consultants who conducted the youth accounted for that age. Keep in mind that the increased inflow of foreign tourists has led to the establishments require more workers with this profile. At the same time, it appears, and increasingly, a greater demand for bilingual or trilingual animators from hotels and theme parks, as well as customer service personnel, mainly in coastal areas or increased influx of foreign tourists. Recruitment by regions and countries: Baleares, Murcia, Cantabria and Andalusia are the communities that increase their hiring over the summer. Here are recorded increases of up to 47%, 31%, 30% and 23% respectively. This is due to enhanced recruitment in two sectors: tourism and industry, depending on the needs of individual autonomy. Specifically, communities that recorded the lowest increase in recruitment in the summer months are La Rioja, with 4%, Extremadura, 10% and Castilla La Mancha, 12%, rates below the average increase recruitment in Spain , at around 19%.

Increase in temporary part time contracts: The most important variation in labor demand during the summer period in 2006 occurred in the service sector, which reached 44% of all contracts between June and September. The industry, meanwhile, has not run away from the service sector, with increased recruitment of 42%. The factories have extended their holiday period from late May to mid September, so that more and more industries are turning to temporary agencies to recruit employees to cover the losses of their permanent staff on vacation, according to data from the same source . This phenomenon is clearly reflected in the studies conducted by various companies engaged in the temporary employment and fixed: during this seasonal period, last year saw an increase of 19% of recruitment to the rest of the year and is expected that this year the increase is 15%.

The most optimistic sectors. E 17% of managers expect to increase their hiring in the third quarter, according to the interviews conducted by the consultancy Manpower Manpower Projection for the Study of Employment. Managers who are more optimistic are the hotel industry. Planned for the summer period a net employment increase of 21%. These are followed by the Transport, Storage and Communications, with an estimated 20% rise in employment and manufacturing, with an expected increase of 19%.

Working on commission: earning extra money

The salary commission may involve different rights and obligations attached labor relations under the general of the Social Security. Use supplements of newspapers and specialized web pages are full of ads that require sellers to various business areas and products. But, despite being requested "workers", not all jobs involve a fee employment and a contract that guarantees a minimum wage, social security, holidays, sickness cover and compensation for dismissal, rights that characterized by definition to an employment relationship. This is because many conceal a purely commercial relationship under various forms of contracts, while legal, may not be as convenient for those seeking employment.

Used as a seller. A quick look at job advertisements in the newspapers is enough to note that about 60% or 70% of the job is for companies looking for business intermediaries, from mobile telephony to orthodontic products or cosmetics. Usually, these jobs offer as compensation a commission on the sale closed, or in the best and on rare occasions, a minimum wage which is then supplemented by a percentage of final price. Many of the works whose remuneration, or part thereof, is a committee are set in a working relationship like any other, under what is known as vendor staff. This is a person who meets certain times scheduled by the company, which is under the general scheme of Social Security. One difference with the average worker is in the remuneration, which may be founded on the basis of a fixed salary or a fixed salary plus commission, or only on the basis of commissions. But, despite the salary depends on an uncertain percentage, who works as a salesman fixed in a particular company has a fixed insured:

* The type of contract, as the Statute of workers, either fixed or temporary, full-time or part time, and will include a holiday period, and so on.
* All the money you earn, will be in wages for all purposes.
* If the salary is composed solely of commissions, they must meet the minimum sector of the collective agreement, or the minimum wage if the industry does not have a particular convention.
* In case of dismissal, compensation will be computed for the time worked on the basis of a calculation that includes the commission and the fixed salary.

However, not all work on commission are so lucky. In the jobs of this type can not be defined commercial areas that are managed with a type of contract or otherwise, as noted labor lawyer said. However, it is common to find ads that ask "Sellers, full-time" to then say "commercial contract", a selling arrangement which, it claims that lawyer, "is distinguished by far a classic employment relationship".

Commercial Contract relation on parttime jobs.

Recognized by several specialists as the working formula to commission more widespread, is the relationship between the seller and the company through a purely commercial contract. For him, a natural or legal person is forced against another on a continuous or stable, in exchange for a fee, "to promote trade acts or transactions by an employee as an independent broker, without assuming the risk and peril of operations". In this type of work requires that the seller can plan your work and time devoted to it under its own criteria, independently of the company that hired him. In these cases, registration is requested autonomous system:

* Duration: Can be for a fixed or indefinite. If not resolved, it is understood as indefinite.
* Compensation: Can be a fixed amount, a commission or a combination of the two formulas.

There is no right to reimbursement of expenses incurred by the development of professional activity.

* Social Security: Being a professional intermediary in trade operations, should contribute to the Special Scheme for Self-Employed. These working relationships provide compensation, but are not related to employment, but for damages, and customers, as established by the Commercial Code, independent of each other:

* Compensation for customers is based on the concept of "lost profits" by committee "future" that can suffer.
* The compensation for damages is based on the damages, and refers to the obligation of the company, for example, to compensate the damages caused by the unilateral withdrawal of the contract of indefinite duration.

Working as a Representative

In addition to the purely commercial relationship, there is another special character identifiable with employees performing commercial transactions on behalf of one or more employers, without assuming "risks and ventures, acting under the name of representative or mediator for a fee. These include delivery services in their own vehicle, where the activity is none other than the delivery of products at home. This figure is common in companies looking to expand in the Spanish territory, says an expert on parttime jobs, who also notes that this professional is somewhere between an employment relationship and a purely commercial.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs defines this form of work to commission as "representatives acting on behalf of one or more companies to promote or enter into commercial transactions with other companies without taking the risk and peril of those, in exchange for a fee "and it excludes workers who are engaging in this activity," made in the premises of the company or taking them for a parttime job and are subject to the same working hours. " In the case of representatives, the employment relationship is formalized in a written contract which should be identified to promote commercial operations or to arrange for the employee, indicating where the inventory and value attached to it. The worker's obligation is to inform the Public Employment Service on the content of a contract, enclosing a copy, and the company must pay the share to the rightful Social Security by law.

The rights and obligations in these cases are:

* The contract may be indefinite or fixed term and shall not exceed three years.
* Enjoy annual leave and paid leave in accordance with the general rules.
* Right to be recognized by customers who have achieved as a result of its management.
* Workers are responsible for any loss or damage that his fault or negligence may be suffered by work samples or instruments that are provided for the development.
* The remuneration shall consist of commissions on transactions that have participated and were accepted by the employer for a fixed element and a commission, or exclusively for a fixed amount.
* The compensation for dismissal shall be determined in accordance with the provisions in general, calculating the salary on the basis of income earned in the previous two years or lesser period, where appropriate. If voluntary departure it must notify a least three months.

Workers are more vulnerable to the most valuable, and challenges that arise under very ambitious deadlines.

Employment stagnation syndrome is a widespread phenomenon in Spanish companies. It mainly affects the professionals who, after several years in the same company, they discover that they have opportunities to evolve in the professional field. It also occurs in people with high expectations and seek greater recognition among those who feel unmotivated to work with repetitive tasks. Employees who are more vulnerable to stagnation are most valuable for companies, and challenges posed very ambitious and running in less time.

Workers go through two very distinct phases. They crossed the first stage of excitement, when at one point of his career dominating feel comfortable because the task or because they are in the beginning. And come to apathy or feeling burned earlier if the feeling is not maintained over time. It is then passed to the stage "trouble" or growth.  In general, the first phase include employees who do not pose great challenges and tend to settle into their jobs. They are unambitious people on issues of learning or improvement. They just meet their obligations and, thus, are satisfied. It is easy to detect: the job is monotonous, there is a feeling of being a robot and lack motivation

Concerned about the next stage because the emotional difficulties are possible. It found workers are major challenges that need to be overcome with effort. They feel dissatisfied with their work and who are motivated while the challenge is great, but as goals are achieved, the momentum began to decline. Guidelines for self-motivated at work  When this moment arrives, we must take action. If not remedied, it enters a dangerous dynamic and begins to lose value in the face of the bosses. Motivation techniques are formulas that help overcome the labor impasse syndrome.

1. Answering the question "what off?". We must review aspects that can be demotivating (a bad boss, a low or stagnant wages, lack of focus ...) and place in a balance with their opposites (a nice job, benefits, good salary ... .) Thus, weighed the pros and cons objectively.
2. Magnificence and avoid playing the victim role. It should not be considered a victim of circumstances, but be the protagonist. It is convenient to think positive, because the certainty and hope that the objectives can get closer to victory.
3. Being active and not reactive. Who wants to get something, make it. Any adversity, obstacles should not stop the advance. It should be clear goal to be achieved. The proactive people occupy the best positions because they give solutions to problems, take the initiative to do what is necessary and develop the task.
4. Set off breaks. This breaks the monotony and there is a mental recovery. It is enough to help small lapses completely disconnect. They should consider a change of activity but as an escape to help restore power. It is advisable to be bound to take a little walk between meals, have a cup of coffee, to seek a moment of conversation with a partner or close to another department and inquire about her work. It is preferable to use sites that are bound to further to go.
5. Set achievements and renewal. It is desirable to establish stages to achieve the goals and enjoy their achievement. The advice is to do a breakdown over each day, and wrote the time because that reinforces the commitment and cross out the progress as they get. Once achieved, help to analyze the reason for the success and increase the chance of knowing how to cope in the future similar actions. On a day to day can be marked minor objectives: rendezvous with a difficult customer, order the filing of the table, update the documentation of the last project. Wherever possible, we must write the exact time in which to begin and end, try to get it will be like a game. It is also necessary to renew periodically the progress and learn to stay self-motivated, because when you reach a goal we must consider the following.
6. Try to improve the possibilities. To get a goal we must invest in yourself in order to develop the full potential. Expanding knowledge is a must. In many cases, simply register for a course in computer science, or language processing. Sometimes it is enough if you change some attitudes, be more dynamic, have more initiative, more flexibility ...
7. Learn to enjoy the work. Restless People always aspire to more. Not enough to satisfy their material needs, but rather to feel good every day. You have to think that the work can learn something new every day, like solving a problem or establish a successful strategy for communicating with a client. Simply change of attitude and consider the work as a pleasure, seeing an opportunity in situations that posed a threat before. From the hardest task to the partner with whom coexistence is impossible can become a personal challenge to help the passing of which include work as a permanent challenge and motivator.
8. Provide new projects. Often, the motivation comes when one considers that the work done does not reflect the real possibilities. This is when you have to go for activities compatible with the development of the profession to make each day is different. There are several options: to make things better, extend the tasks, take more initiatives and even make decisions. Initiate and consider ways of increasing competition, can be very beneficial for future employment. This objective is applicable to any work (a teacher may be limited to teaching, or research and expand their knowledge with studies).
9. Do not be afraid to fail, but see it as an opportunity to learn. The statistics confirms that few successful entrepreneurs have succeeded in the first attempt. Having a second opportunity for improvement is key as well as the ability to overcome a bad experience and the most adverse situations. To find out if you have learned something with this error, it is imperative to ask what happened. The answer will boost self-esteem, expand awareness and serve to avoid a repetition of the same mistakes in future and similar circumstances. In general, we tend to justify the failure because it is easier to fight for success in a project.
10. Surrounding yourself with a good environment. Something as simple as choosing a particular light, adjust the temperature and ensure that the workplace is as comfortable and exciting as possible strongly influences mood. Also surround yourself with the elements that encourage more: photos of people or objects that are an engine for action. If you have the ability to place the table near a window or in a place where you can observe the outside, it is preferable, as well as listening to music while working and express in writing the goals, objectives and strategies for moving forward.

Some signs indicate when a coworker could be about to leave the company:

* If asked to review the conditions of his contract. Start by assessing current conditions and "polls" confidentiality clauses or no competition.
* When you enjoy outstanding vacations and even the days of free disposal.
* If you are moved by anything that is related to the company: do not complain, but simply nodded.
* Whenever you become more jealous and suspicious: it prevents you look at his work on the computer.
* Once you declare a truce with people with whom he was in constant competition issues and decision-making responsibilities.
* When extending their lunches and take advantage of longer opening hours to visit their contacts, update your resume or go to interviews.
* The time when the number of meetings outside the office, and the number of incoming and outgoing calls from your phone.
* If you stop participating in social gatherings that are organized in the office.