The Best Student Jobs - Online Job Opportunities Available for College Students

Finding online jobs for students
When it comes to finding the best student jobs and online job opportunities available for college students these days, most college students are not too sure where to look. Especially when it comes to the online job opportunities part.

Trying to locate student jobs that will pay you well without scamming you is getting harder and harder. What you will soon read will change the way in which you look for work forever. You just have to know where to look for it.

Where is the money?
If you have spent any time at all searching out the best student jobs and online job opportunities for college students then you will probably already know just how easy it is to get scammed out there. Website after website are offering you up to $150 per hour but once you joined you were lucky if you made two bucks. Survey companies seem to be the worst for this kind of carry on which is a real shame for the handful of survey companies that actually do pay what they say they do.

Non scam jobs available for college students
There are still survey companies out there that are honest and treat their workers with care and respect, but only a few. With more than 7 years experience taking surveys you soon get to know the good guys from the scammers. But when you do find the good ones you can genuinely earn $10 - $15 for every hour spent in front of the computer.

It might not seem like a lot but it soon adds up. The best student jobs and online job opportunities available for college students don’t advertise that they will pay you gazillions of dollars per hour, instead they are a lot more realistic and offer normal pay rates.

Online Job Search Tips for International Students

A reader e-mailed us a few weeks ago - she’s a senior at Columbia University, and she’s job searching. She’s had the usual frustrations with finding helpful information on companies’ career sites; however, her situations is exacerbated by the fact that she is an international student. Many students from abroad are treated like second class citizens (does that make sense, since they’re not US citizens?) in the job recruitment process solely because of their need for sponsorship to obtain a visa (did we get the terminology right?).

The simple truth is that employers have a wide range of attitudes towards international students, and it’s hard to know what their attitude will be before you invest time in the applications process. Not only are employers unwilling to hire students from abroad because of the false perception that hiring an international students is costly, time consuming, and likely to end up with the new hire leaving after 6 months or a year, but they won’t even be upfront with applicants regarding their sponsorship policies. Employers also worry that if they hire foreign students, they will end up with employees who have poor English skills. This is nonsense. If someone can’t speak the language that you do business in, don’t hire him or her - that’s what a phone interview is for. You don’t need to discriminate against an entire group because some are unfit for the job. Now, don’t get us wrong, there are many companies that truly do a great job of recruiting and hiring international students (we’ve heard Wachovia, Ernst and Young, Xerox, Conservation International, MTV World, IT Convergence, Institute of International Finance Citibank, Deloitte, JP Morgan, T-Mobile, and Lehman Brothers mentioned), but they tend to be large corporations that have the resources and the know-how to navigate the process - they may have done it 1,000 times before.

So we want to help our readers, since there are a good number of international students among the ranks, better identify which employers are international student friendly, and which aren’t. We can say for certain, that in our daily research of the best entry-level employers, we have seen very little mention of immigration status on career websites. The problem (besides employer attitudes towards students who aren’t U.S. citizens) is that we have absolutely no experience job searching from the perspective of an international student. Lucky for you, we’re pretty skilled at finding great career resources on the Internet, so we’re going to give you some excerpts, some links, and open the comments section for further discussion.

Many colleges and universities have great job search resources for international students (and all students), so check out what your college has to offer. If you can’t find anything, use the online career services resources from another college. One example is this Career Services handout for international students at the University of Virginia. If you want to find more guides like this one, use this Google query, which should provide some great career resources for international students.