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Student employment earns over $1 million this year
The Pointer
ASCHL336@UWSP.EDU
Through off-campus jobs found through the Student Involvement and Employment Office, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students have earned an estimated $1 million from July 1, 2007.
Emily Lindahl, Job Fair Coordinator for SIEO, works with the SIEO staff and local employers to find out who hired UW-SP students, dates of employment, how many hours they work per week and what their hourly wage is. Lindahl takes these figures, estimates who much each student will earn while employed, and then puts these estimates in the Job Location and Development Report.
When the YMCA contacted Lindahl with their student employment information, Lindahl discovered the JLD Report totaled over $1 million. Past years’ totals have been under a million; last years’ was $835,000. Last week the SIEO presented the YMCA with a large novelty thank-you check and balloons for reporting the one millionth dollar.
Almost all the students’ jobs within the JLD Report are with businesses, but through the job search engine SIEO provides—QUEST—students can also find jobs with individuals in the community.
“Ten percent of students’ earnings come from one-time, temporary, or occasional jobs such as babysitting, yard work, tutoring, and labor positions,” according to the press release issued by SIEO . . . View full story >
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