The Jobshop is Leeds Metropolitan University’s own valuable resource for placing students and graduates into paid casual work. Hours are varied and flexible and are usually suitable for students to fit around their studies.
Jobshop Registration
If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities please register with the Jobshop. You must be fully registered and have completed all the stages below before we can offer you work.
On our online registration site, click on ‘Register’ and create a new account.
Using the login details sent to the email address you used to register, log back into your account and provide us with the following information by clicking the 'Add Student CV' tab:
Personal details
Two Referees
Employment Experience, Education and Qualifications and any other Relevant Experience/Training
After completing the online registration process you will need to contact us to arrange a registration appointment face to face. To your appointment you will need to bring the following:
Casual Worker Timesheets should be filled out by the student on a weekly basis and signed off by their supervisor and returned to the Job Team in G30.
Working during your Vacation
You can never have too much experience, so working during your vacation is a great way to add to your CV, thereby making you more employable once you finish your course.
Summer camps and summer work are a good way of doing this. Please see the links below for more information.
| BUNAC | BUNAC offers a range of exciting summer-camp, work-abroad and volunteer-abroad programmes. BUNAC is the work and travel expert and has been helping young people work and volunteer abroad since 1962. Popular gap year destinations include: USA, Canada, New Zealand, Ghana, Australia, Britain, China, South Africa and many more. |
| Camp America | It's a chance to do something different with your summer and spend it in the US of A; living & working either with children as an activity leader/counsellor or 'behind the scenes' as support staff, on an American Summer Camp. Each year over 7,500 young people take the opportunity. |
| CCUSA | Work in a summer camp in the USA as a camp counsellor or as camp facility staff. The Camp Counsellors USA program places you in one of the hundreds of camps across the USA where you will work and play for the summer. |
| US Sports Institute | The US Sports Institute has been providing sports camps and year-round sports programs to communities for over 10 years, and currently works with over 500 organizations in the USA. These organizations include Recreation Departments, YMCAs, JCCs, Girl Scouts, School Districts & a variety of other private organisations that require quality sports provision. |
| Camp Leaders | Camp Leaders provides summer job opportunities for people from around the world to work at children's summer camps in the United States, and to travel afterwards. You can work as a camp counsellor (or counselor as Americans would spell it!) in roles such as lifeguard or ceramics instructor or, if you prefer, you can work as support staff, performing roles such as kitchen or office work. |
| Seasonal Workers | There are thousands of summer jobs abroad and in the UK. Just about anyone can do it, it's simply a matter of finding the right job with the best company. Use this section to get some answers. It is full of ideas and makes it easy to contact a wide range of summer season employers directly. |
| Summer Jobs 4 Students | SummerJobs4Students specialises in leisure, sports, tourism, childcare and charity vacancies for students seeking seasonal holiday work. SummerJobs4Students is part of Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment, the UK’s largest portfolio of specialist job sites with leading brands across key business functions. |
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