Part-time job 王雯

Part-time job Gender: male ( ) female ( ) Questions 1.Do you want to have a part-time job? Yes ( ) No ( ) 2.Have you had a part-time job? Yes ( ) No ( ) 3.Which is the most important reason for you to want a part-time job? Earning money ( ) Spare time ( ) Society experience ( ) Making more friends ( ) Practice communication skills ( ) Finding out what kind job is appropriate to you Others: _______________ 4.What kind of part-time job do you want? ( At most 2 choices ) Private teacher ( ) For service (e.g., waiter or waitress) ( ) Interpretation/Translation Work ( ) Physical labor ( ) Foreign language teacher ( ) Practical training in a company or school or institution ( ) Others: _______________

5.Usually, how do you find a part-time job? ( At most 2 choices) Job Fair ( ) On the internet ( ) Career Advise Centre ( ) From an ‘advertisement or handbill/flyer ( ) Through introduction by friends ( ) Directly finding the shop that needs ( ) Others: _________________

Background At the beginning of the term, there were many shops, supermarkets.etc which need staff. Many advertisements were pasted, kinds of flyers were send. Some students were looking for a part-time job for some reasons. I supposed to interview some Japanese students about their part- time jobs.

Random sampling All the interviewees are students of saga university. the total figure ： boys ， 10 girls

1. Do you want to have a part-time job? Yes (15 ) No (5)

2. Have you had a part-time job? Yes (8) No (12)

3. Which is the most important reason for you to want a part-time job? Earning money (16 ) Spare time ( 0) Society experience (3 ) Making more friends (0 ) Practice communication skills (1 ) Finding out what kind job is appropriate to you (0) Others: __________

4.What kind of part-time job do you want? ( At most 2 choices ) Private teacher ( 7) For service (e.g., waiter or waitress) (14) Interpretation/Translation Work (1 ) Physical labor (2 ) Foreign language teacher ( 0) Practical training in a company or school or institution (0) Others: _______________

5.Usually, how do you find a part- time job? ( At most 2 choices) Job Fair (2 ) On the internet ( 3) Career Advise Centre ( 4) From an ‘advertisement or handbill/flyer ( 3) Through introduction by friends (8 ) Directly finding the shop that needs (5 ) Others: _________________

Conclusion Most students Japanese students want to have to have a part-time job in their spare time. Almost half of them have had or had a part- time job. But the students who do not a part- time job seems a little fewer. The most important reason for these students to want a part-time job, of course, is money.

Most them, who choose the reason is money, prefer private teacher and a waiter or a waitress. Some of them choose to do physical labor. There are 3 students think the most important reason is Society Experience. Even like this, they also would like to be a private teacher and a waiter or a waitress. The way to find a part-time job is various, but most of them got a part-time through introduction of friends. Some of them directly go to the shop for seeding a part- time job.

Thank you!

According to the result, most of the Japanese students want to have a part-time job. Almost half of the Japanese students have part- time job experience. But a little more students do not have it. The most important reason to have a part-time job is money. There are 16 persons who got this choice. 3 people considered society experience is the most important cause of having a part-tome job. 1 person wanted to practice communication skills.

I though some of them maybe chose the option of making friends. But no one chose it. I asked some of them, they said it is a reason, but is not the most important reason. Most of them wanted to earn money though part-time job. Because of it, they thought being a waiter or waitress was the best way of earning money. Some of them chose private teacher or physical labor. The people who chose society experience, selected to be a private teacher and waiter.

There are various of measures to find a par-time job, most of them chose through the introduction of friends. Some believed directly going to the shop was much better.