Part.
Time.
Job.

How can you possibly handle classes, homework, keeping up with the Jersey Shore, going out, AND a part-time job?

Luckily, it’s not as horrible as it seems… all you need to remember is one key word: BALANCE. Here are five tips to keep your balance in check, your wallet full, your grades up and your social life intact:

1. Get Simple.
If you take five classes, are the president of three clubs, have a part time job and still manage to get yourself to a party once a week… congratulations, you’re our hero, and an anomaly. Keep on keepin’ on. For the rest of us, it’s important to remember that there are only 24 hours in a day and not everyone can be superhuman. In other words, don’t spread yourself too thin! You’re in college for one reason- to learn- so make sure you prioritize. School comes first, followed by work, a social life and extracurriculars. Pick one or two clubs to be super-involved with, rather than trying to make an impact on 10 or 15. Choose activities you’re invested in and dedicated to. If you find yourself putting off tasks for one group or another, it’s not worth it! In short- eliminate obligations that aren’t necessary or don’t grab your full interest. If your heart is in it, you’ll have the time for it.
2. Pencil Things In
Buy a calendar, and make it a big one. Post it on your wall. Schedule in your classes, group meetings, work schedule, and big social outings. Color code- classes in blue, work in green, due dates in red, whatever. Make sure a calendar is visible in your room, and try to program everything into your computer or smart phone as well. By representing your time physically, you’ll be able to see when you’re overbooking yourself, and know how to prepare when things look busy.
3. Better Yet- Pencil Yourself In!
Besides the fact that it’s just plain stressful, there are a million reasons why you need to pencil yourself into your own schedule. Mark out Friday and Saturday nights to spend time with your friends, or double up watching football and doing light homework on Sundays. Eat at the same time every day. Create a sleep schedule- sleep-deprived students have a shorter attention span, impaired memory, and a longer reaction time! Pick a time to go the gym, even if for thirty minutes, to take a study break and get your blood moving. Remember- playtime is important. Increased stress makes students less motivated and efficient and decreases the quality of their work.
4. Flexibility is Key
There are two ways to make your time more versatile: pick a job with flexible hours and be smart about scheduling your classes. Can you avoid having classes on Fridays? DO IT. Are there classes that only meet once a week? TAKE THEM. If you can help it, pick a job with flexible hours, or schedule your classes around fixed work hours. And stay adaptable- if something changes, don’t let it ruin your whole day!
5. Budget!
Everyone works for different reasons, whether it’s to pay the rent, get rid of student loans, or just plain have going out money. Whatever your motivation, be aware of how much you need to make per week or month. Make a budget. Only work as much as you have to to be comfortable.  Anything more could be library time, or you time!

It won’t be (that) easy, but thousands of students balance a full-time class load, a part-time job and a social life. Stay organized, be flexible, keep motivated, and be patient. And don’t forget- “stressed” is just “desserts” spelled backwards!

Here are websites, books, and time management resources you might find helpful:

http://www.businessballs.com/sevenhabitsstevencovey.htm

http://careerdevelopment.brown.edu/phd/time_management.php

http://www.studygs.net/timman.htm

http://www.timethoughts.com/time-management.htm

The Overview

Bump up the pages: The first thing we noticed is that October saw our “page views per visit” bump up dramatically. The average user in October was viewing almost 9 pages per visit (September’s average was 5 pages per visit).

City Vs. City

Providence once again topped the charts, but get ready for a much different November – we’ve just hired campus representatives from the University of Rhode Island to help recruit students.

Free Tank Tops and T-Shirts

If you want to grab your very own (gorgeous) Jobzle T-shirt or tank, you can:

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Bring on November!

The Jobzle Team

Providence Monthly is running an October feature on Providence’s new knowledge economy, and highlights Jobzle as one of “four cool companies making Providence smarter.”  You can read Providence Monthly online at this address: http://www.providenceonline.com/providencemonthly/read.html.  The article starts on page 35, and Jobzle is on page 39.

Let us know what you think!

Cheerio

The Overview

Our first month is drawing to a close, lets see where we did well and where we did badly:

Our biggest day: Wednesday, September 15th (744 visits, 2,624 page views) – The day we launched our Facebook campaign
Our slowest day: Saturday, September 25th (46 visits, 340 page views) – Day of the Brown vs. Harvard homecoming football game

Generally, we’re really happy with our first month – it was above and beyond our expectations. That said, we know we’ve got work to do and we plan on keeping up the pace throughout October.

Weekends Are For Parties

One of the most obvious emerging trends we’ve seen is that students just don’t search for jobs as often over the weekend. Mondays and Wednesdays appear to be the most common day to search!

City Vs. City

We’ve also been tracking our progress city by city – and it looks like Providence has been the quickest to respond – take a look at the top 10 cities by visits:

For us, that means we’ve got some serious work to do at the campuses outside Providence. Over the next couple weeks we plan on hiring campus representatives at each of the 11 schools in Rhode Island and getting the word out with flyers, free t-shirts etc!

Get A Free Jobzle T-shirt / Tank Top (Score!)

We also just got in a massive shipment of 300 t-shirts and tank tops. If you want to grab your very own Jobzle T-shirt or tank, you can:

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Thanks again for all the support, we’re looking forward to a bigger and better October.

Until next month,

The Jobzle Team

Walker has an article on Xconomy.com this morning: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/09/24/how-i-spent-my-summer-in-startup-boot-camp/.  It’s about Walker’s and Jobzle’s experience at the Betaspring start-up accelerator program this past summer.  Check it out!

There are great opportunities available on Jobzle right now.  The Rhode Island State Government has listed their internships for the Fall, Spring and Summer – with placements that span the entire State government, from the General Assembly to the Rhode Island Supreme Court.  FM Global has 5 positions up, including a Business Analyst Internship and an Application Developer Co-op program.  There are openings at Bay Computer Associates, Betaspring, Providence After School Alliance, ninedot, WLNE-TV / ABC 6, the Rhode Island Tech Collective, A Better World by Design, Inspiring Minds, Ananke IT Solutions, New York Life, and more.

A few days after we listed the Rhode Island State Government internships, Robert Gemma, the Director of State Internships, called me to say that he had just hired a student through Jobzle.  I was ecstatic.  Even though his programs are awesome enough to sell themselves, I chalked it up as a win.

Students? We have students registered from 9 Rhode Island schools (out of 11).  We have campus representatives at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Johnson and Wales University, and will have them very shortly at Providence College, Bryant University, and the University of Rhode Island.  We’ll be strutting our stuff at upcoming career fairs.  But most importantly, we’ll be doing our thing on Facebook – no, not Facebook advertising.  ’Organic’ outreach. Groundswell.  Think Obama in ’07 / ’08.  Or dancing baby circa 1996.  There’s no way we can top dancing baby – cause baby’s got moves – but our path to popularity (among students) is similar: push something to others in a creative way until it pushes itself.

Here’s a nugget of wisdom to help you start your week: Fortes fortuna adiuvat.  If on the path to achieving your fortune you need to hire college students as interns or part-time workers – you know where to find us!

Cheerio.

Untitled from Walker Williams on Vimeo.

Posting a job on Jobzle.com from Walker Williams on Vimeo.

If you’ve got any questions or comments we always appreciate them.  Get in touch with us atsupport@jobzle.com, or leave a comment below!

Bam! The Jobzle Job Search in all its glory. If Tom Ford was a web designer and he rocked, he’d probably have one or two websites in his portfolio as smokin’ hot as the Jobzle Job Search page. One or two. That’s how awesome this page is. And we don’t have Tom Ford the web designer. We don’t even have Ralph Lauren. We have some New Zealand guy named Walker – and he’s insane.

So taking a look at the page, the first thing you’ll notice is Google maps. We put a big map right above the search results, because we know most students have limits to how far they can travel for work. With Craigslist, forgetaboutit. You have to keep switching back and forth between browser windows, job – map, job – map, job – map, to get the same experience. Who enjoys that?

The search results are first displayed in reverse chronological order. If you want to refine them further, use the filters on the left-hand side of the page. The first filter is “job type.” Use this to hide jobs you will never apply for: for example, if you’re looking for opportunities to make a few dollars for an upcoming weekend, you’re probably not interested in applying for internships or volunteer work. Just tick off those volunteer and internship boxes and you’re ready to go.

Below the “job type” filter is our distance filter. Job seekers can manipulate this filter to narrow their search results down to jobs that are located near their homes. Next are the pay filters. We have these categorized to suit anyone’s metric: dollars per hour, dollars per month, dollars in my hand right now. Slide these sliders whichever way to find the jobs that pay your worth. Which, to be frank, is not a whole lot more than $7.00 an hour.

Here is the same search results page after I used our filters. Only 3 search results instead of 12! Magic? Jobzle.

We’ll also be uploading product videos throughout the week to show people how Jobzle actually functions.

The first blog post is about searching for jobs on Jobzle.com.  Can a blog post about search tools be exciting?  You bet your ass it can.  Everything about Jobzle is exciting.

Oh, and I want to stress that our official launch is not happening this week, but rather we’re opening the service up early so businesses can get acquainted with the system and begin to post their jobs.