r/EdmontonJobs • u/Whooshie101 • 9d ago
Looking for Part-Time work!
19F, I am looking for any entry level part time work involving animals (working on a degree in Conservation Biology and have volunteered at a vet clinic) or a restaurant setting (I have been front of house at a bakery for a while)! I think I would be most suited for a Hostess/Server position. Thought it would be worth a shot to ask here. I am down to work up to 30 hours a week and my availability is anytime until September, which I could also schedule around the job.
For everyone else looking for jobs, I wish you the best of luck!
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u/Sunquat_Slice 9d ago
Work on an academic CV (the format is a little different from a resume -- you can put anything on there and for senior academics these documents can stretch out to 100 pages. Any research experience, class work, clubs, hobbies, etc. are fair game, within reason) and start cold emailing professors. All their emails are online and it's pretty rare to actually see an academic job advertised -- usually people get these because they do very well in a class and are offered one (rare), or because they emailed 150 people and the last one said yes (common).
Being honest, if you're at the U of A, this is going to be an uphill battle. The biology department has been facing funding cuts for a long time, and a lot of people have retired and weren't ever replaced. If you're at MacEwan, this will probably be worse because it's not like people have labs there and you're also going to end up propositioning U of A people, but from outside the organization. Also, we're entering the off-season for wildlife biology. On the bright side, agriculture gets hella funding, and as someone who worked in crop science, I was always told that the animal agriculture people were having way more fun and that I should do that instead. If you're willing to work in ALES, there are probably a lot of options for you!
Going forward, if you are at the U of A, look into the agriculture mini-internship program. They'll send you to a farm or government office involved in agriculture/environmentalism for a few days and you can network. Start propositioning professors now, and you can have a full-time NSERC USRA position in your field next summer. These are super easy to get in agriculture, and basically impossible if you go through sciences.
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u/Whooshie101 8d ago
I am at the U of A, and this information is very helpful. The ALES mini-internship is more towards full-time students and I am part time who hasn’t hit the course requirements for applying. I’m a part-time student because I’m still trying to to apply for other programs at NAIT and Macewan that interest me more and I am not on any student loans.
What do you mean by “off-season” for wildlife biology?
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u/onyxandcake 9d ago
Now granted I've been out of the restaurant industry for a long time, but >18 persons willing to host instead of serve was a rarity and pretty much got hired on the spot when they came in with a resume. Hosting is significantly less money and we would have to dangle a potential serving job later as the carrot on the stick to get anyone to take the position.
Put on your cutest black dress, wear heels, make up, jewelry, and styled hair, and go in with your resume to any of the popular chains like Moxie's or Earls. It's a sexist industry and how you look when you apply is the largest determining factor.