{"id":21940,"date":"2020-03-04T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/?p=21940"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:49:04","slug":"people-at-fs-life-as-a-working-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/people-at-fs-life-as-a-working-student\/","title":{"rendered":"People at FS: Life as a working student"},"content":{"rendered":"

My second semester just started, and this February is already my third month as a working student at IPONTIX. I\u2019m currently doing my bachelor\u2019s in business administration<\/a> in the full-time model; therefore, I want to give you an idea of how to find a position as a working student, how much of work it actually is and what you should know before applying.<\/p>\n

What to expect as a working student<\/h2>\n

No worries, you won\u2019t make coffee all day! Although jobs might be very different, I think my experience with IPONTIX might be a good example of how it can be. In my job interview they offered me to start with a two-month internship; this way I was able to first have a look if the company really suits me. I started off with assisting in the office management, from filling the website to wrapping Christmas presents I did a lot of diverse tasks. This start was a lot of fun as I had much variety in what I\u2019m doing. As I got more used to work independently and got a better understanding of what the company is doing, I got tasks which were more project-related like researching companies and filling Excel sheets. All in all, the longer I was working there the more challenging work was transmitted to me.<\/p>\n

Here are some tips for you to find your student job<\/h2>\n

First of all, you should think about the reason you want to work. Do you need the money, or do you want to learn a lot? Do you want to get insights in different fields, or do you already know what you want to do later in life? Do you prefer small teams, or a big name in your CV? These are example questions you should ask yourself to find out where to work. I also found it very useful to use JobTeaser, a job platform offered by FS, to see which companies are looking for students and to see what kind of positions are possible.<\/p>\n

Will I have time for a job?<\/h2>\n

Depending on the programme you do and how you set your priorities you will have different amounts of time to work. Myself, I work roughly 13 hours a week when I don\u2019t have lectures. When your company is far away it might make sense to do less but longer stints. While some people work up to or more than 20 hours a week for me 13 hours are more than enough so I can still study, sleep, have a social life and do extracurricular activities. Most companies are very flexible when it comes to schedules of working students so it\u2019s no problem if you need a day off or your lecture plan changes.<\/p>\n

How do I get the job?<\/h2>\n

As soon as you decided what you want to do and where to apply you should take the opportunity and speak with our career services<\/a>! They can give you professional feedback to your thoughts and have a look over your application(s). Try to inform yourself thoroughly about the company and when you get invited to an interview just try to be yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My second semester just started, and this February is already my third month as a working student at IPONTIX. I\u2019m currently doing my bachelor\u2019s in business administration in the full-time model; therefore, I want to give you an idea of how to find a position as a working student, how much of work it actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":21943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1221],"tags":[888,530,1525,98,1100,1138],"class_list":["post-21940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bachelor","category-bachelor-of-science-bba","tag-business-administration","tag-corporate-finance","tag-ipontix","tag-job","tag-working-in-germany","tag-working-student"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions\/21948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}