Topic research IBD STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE TREND OF PART TIME JOBS AT BUBBLE TEA SHOPS

Research questions  What is the real situation of IBD students doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops?. The real situation of IBD students doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops 21.

NATIONAL ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT & ECONOMICS IBD@NEU

Topic research:

IBD STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE TREND OF PART-TIME JOBS

AT BUBBLE TEA SHOPS

Group 4: Vũ Dung Nhi

Nguyễn Đắc Tuấn Dũng

Lê Thị HiềnDương Ngọc Sơn

Instructor: Le Thi Thu Mai

HANOI, September 2018

Class: I14S1

Chapter I: Introduction

I Background

Nowadays, part-time job is very popular among college students It is graduallybecoming an essential part in their lives Although there are various choices in differentfields, most of them tend to work at bubble tea shops Therefore, we do a research on bubbletea shops part-time job tendency of IBD students

II Rationale/ Purpose of the research

These days young people in Vietnam have spent a lot of money on bubble tea It becomesmore and more popular among students and even adults, as it is affordable and easilybecomes “addictive” Consequently, more bubble tea shops are opened In the need of findingpart-time jobs, college students have more work oppotunities Especially, there are many IBDstudents recently working at these stores This research gives an insight into IBD students’point of view on the trend of working in bubble tea shops

In our research, we would like to gather some information about IBD Intake 14 students’perspective on the trend of working part-time at bubble tea shops It will help usunderstand more about the job and the reasons why they are interested in doing this part-time work

+ The questions will be given out to about 50 students at IBD to address the most

relevant and effective questions

+ The answers will be collected and used as information for the research

-Secondary Data:

+ Look up some information for research on the Internet, articles, magazines or othersources, which are taken before and have the keyword of “ Part-time job at Bubble teashops”

+ The information and statistic that relate to the topics will be analyzed, then decide which could be useful for our research.

IV Research questions

 What is the real situation of IBD students doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops?

 What are the opinions of IBD students on the advantages and disadvantages of doingpart-time job at bubble tea shops?

 How do IBD students overcome challenges when they do part-time jobs at bubble teashops?

1 The real situation of IBD students doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops

2 Advantages and Disadvantages of doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops

3 Suggestions to over come challenges when they do part-time jobs at bubble teashops

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 2

Chapter I: Introduction 3

I Background 3

II Rationale/ Purpose of the research 3

III Methodology 3

IV Research questions 4

V Structure 4

Chapter II: Major findings 6

I The real situation of IBD students’ doing part-times jobs at bubble tea shops 6

1 Age 6

2 Experience of working at a bubble tea shops 8

3 A suitable part-time job for students 9

4 Working our at bubble tea shops 10

5 Monthly salary 11

6 Main purposes 12

II Effects on doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops 13

1 Effects on learning 13

2 Learning form work 14

3 Problems 15

4 Other problems 16

a Waste time 16

b Pressure of the jobs 17

III Suggestions to overcome challenges when they do part-time jobs at bubble tea shops 18

Chapter III: Conclusion 20

References 21

Appendix 22

Survey Questionaire: 22

Chapter II: Major findings

Nowadays, the use of part-time jobs at bubble tea shops in Viet Nam has been increasing alot in the recent years We can see and find the bubble tea shops are everywhere Even in theshort street or when you walk around place you live here, you can easily find a bubble tea shop.Due to the demand and the development of the bubble tea chains, the labor force is alsonecessary, the bubble tea shops is the restaurant business and which does not require experience

According to the topic “ Tại sao việc làm thêm quán trà sữa tại Hà Nội HOT như vậy??”(Quỳnh

Hoa, 2018) Explaining this phenomenon, the market research unit implies some reasons such asflexible time, no experience required, increased income, gain some experience and skills, greatjob opportunities

To find out more about what is the real situation of IBD students doing part-time jobs atbubble tea shops, a survey called

survey almost the young people ( 18-30 years old), but with 19 years old is highest point of thechart.

2 Experience of working at a bubble tea shops

Figure 2: Experience of working at a bubble tea shopsThe pie chart above illustrates the answers of the question “Have you ever worked in a bubbletea store ?” 38% of respondents said that they used to work at a bubble tea store, and this figurewas the same as that of those who said yes It is very easy to understand because perhaps peoplewho used to work at a bubble tea store have found a new job which is more suitable For peoplewho have answered yes, this is a new job which is a big step for them to get to know the outsideworld especially for freshmen However, besides, they can learn how to get balance betweenworking and studying, which is much more important On the other hand, only 24% of studentsparticipating in the survey haven’t worked at bubble tea shops Perhaps they do not know thisjob, or they don’t like this job, or even they want to find a job which is more challengin orsimply they just want to focus on their study

3 A suitable part-time job for students

97.00%

3.00%

Suitable for a part-time job

Yes No

Figure 3: Suitable for a part-time jobAccording to the survey, we found that 97% of respondents in this survey think thatworking at a bubble tea store is suitable for a part-time jobs It is easy to understand becausethis is an easy work, which doesn’t need any experiences or certificate Working at bubble teastore is not only suitable for a part-time jobs but also help you to have a flexible time andstable salary for all of the students When you work there, you can learn more about theexperiences in life and working skills, which it will bring you a lot of opportunities to yourfuture carrier There are only 3% of respondents in survey think that working at bubble teastore is unsuitable for a part-time jobs This can also be understood because there are manyprofessions that are quite suitable for student such as: selling clothes, collaborators, tutors,

4 Working our at bubble tea shops

Figure 4: One day work time Figure 5: Working day a week

In the figure 4&5 chart, we can see that there are 65% IBD students’ works for 4 hours perday and 3 to 5 days per week, which take the highest point of the charts This ratios shows thatmost students still spend their time studying and resting properly On the other hand, there are16% who work for 8 hours or more than 8 hours for a day Perhaps they find it difficult tomanage their own timetable The next highest ratios are 14% students working at bubble teashops from 1 to 3 days and 19% students spend the whole week on working

Figure 6: Monthly salary

In figure 6, 47% of respondents in the survey said that they earn less than 2 millions atbubble tea store, which takes the highest point of the chart It is easy to understand because isjust a part-time job after school time The next highest is 39% of IBD students’ who earn from 2millions to 4 millions a month and there are only 14% who receive more than 4 millions Perhapsthey may have higher positions than staff in bubble tea shops

Figure 7+8: Purpose of working at bubble tea shopsAccording to the figure 7, the chart shows us that the result is very clear 62% of studentsparticipating in the survey said that learning experiences is their main purpose of doing part-timejob at bubble tea shop, which is take the biggest part of the chart It is easy to see that bubble teashop is the suitable place for student to find experiences so that they become more and moremature The second biggest is 27% of IBD students who do that job to earn money With areasonable salary, it can totally be a source of income for some students That is clear shown infigure 8, there are78% and 6% who are satisfied and absolutely satisfied with that salary, whilethe percentage of people in the survey are unsatisfied with that salary just has 16% On the otherhand, only 8% who chose this job to learn business Especially, no one chose part-time job atbubble tea shop to make new friends We think they tend to choose a store where they havealready had friends before.

II Effects on doing part-time jobs at bubble tea shops

Figure 9: Effect on learningAccording to the figure 9, we can see that that there are almost 83% IBD students’ thinkdoing part-time jobs is not the bad habit and it does not affect learning or learning outcomes.While a part of small people made up of 17% think that spending the rest times to work isharmful and seriously affects the study

2 Learning form work

Figure 10: Learning form workThe chart show many kind of skill that students can learne from this job Communicationskill accounted for 49%, which is chosen the most Because of doing that job, they have tocommunicate to customer a lot, so their skill is the most improvable Following by team work,there are 21% who thought they were learned teamwork from this job Then 16% and 11% ofrespondents who was improved their manage time and learned how to make bubble tea frompart-time job at bubble tea shop Lastly, there are only 1 person in this survey (=3%) didn’t learnanything from that job

Figure 11: ProblemsThis pie chart describes the proportion of problems when people work in bubble tea shops.Standing too much is the most interesting issue, which takes up to 40% Because the bubblestores always crowded so students need to move a lot to serve customers The second proportion

is the difficulty of arranging work time and study time, with 30% This is the main reason whymany students have bad results in each test at school 22% is the number of the problem ofstudents that must be talking too much while working at the bubble tea shops

Figure 12: Waste timesAccording to the figure 12, the table shows us that the result is very clear.It is easy to seethat most survey participants (62%) choose to work at bubble tea shops, which does not takemuch time, but also benefits the extra work In addition, 38% of the respondents said that theextra work took up too much of their time that they could not forcus on important tasks or justthe time to relax.

b Pressure of the jobs

Figure 13: Presure of the jobsAccording to the survey, we found that 35 % of the students in this survey think thatpunctuality is the greatest pressure for students to go to work at the bubble tea shops It is easy tounderstand because the students do not adapt with workplace arrangements Next, fastidiousnessfrom customers is the second reason which get pressure for student to go to work at the bubbletea store There are 24% of students think that Working at the bubble tea shop must satisfy thecustomer, but it is not a simple task because young people do not have much experience handlingthe situation so the desire to hard-hearted customers is not easy Next, in the survey, we see that22% of students think that comparison from colleagues is the one of reason put pressure forstudents to go to work at the bubble tea store Comparison is a good action, which help peoplerecognize strengths and weaknesses of themselves to try to improve Next, there are 16% ofstudents think that strictness from the boss is the reason of cause pressure for students to go towork at bubble tea store With difficult bosses, it is extremely difficult for them to do it So, thestrictness of the boss is a great pressure for the students On the other hand, there are only 3% ofstudents in the survey thinh that the cause of the job put pressure for students to go to work at thebubble tea is orther reasons

III Suggestions to overcome challenges when they do part-time jobs at bubble tea shops

1 This chart indicates information when being asked students about solution of working in bubble tea shops

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on learning and is scared of slipping off in class Moreover, they recognize that education is theirmain path of their life On the other hand, only 20% of them recommended that they should workless than 8 hours per day After further investigation, we learned that those who are spending 8hours per day for work chose that because they do not have a lot of freetime nor do they have thestamina to work more Also some even said that they do not need to work a lot becaude theirparents have already provided for them The remaining 32% said the best way is reasonable timedivision because they need to know how to balance between learning and doing part-time jobs toget the best results and avoid distraction from studying

According to research, the respondents give us some advice in order to do this job well,students have to: arrange reasonable time, know their strengths and weaknesses, make atimetable for studying and working, try to find other ways to make their work easier so that theycan shorten the time needed to finish work, concentrate on their work and learn more new things

On the other hand, some believe that working at bubble tea stores is not a good idea, unless thesalary is higher (about 8 millions per month) Finally, students should stick to the rule and befriendlier

IBD students have given different opinions about the solution dealing with the issuessurrounding the IBD students’ perspectives on the trend in part-time jobs at bubble tea shops.Once again, the respondents are asked to give some suggestions to reduce the problems of part-time jobs at bubble tea shops They offer a number of solutions, such as relocating, renewingscedules, leaving the job and relying on parental support, balancing the time between study andwork Furthermore, some respondents commented that they should just give their best.

Chapter III: Conclusion

We can see that most of students today have a part-time job, and work at bubble tea store is acommon job with students now Reasons explain to that is this is not a demanding job, however

it has a reasonable salary and flexible time for students

This project aimed at IBD students who had experience of work at bubble tea store In ourresearch, we want to give some information about the trend of doing part-time job at bubble teashops Moreover, this also provides advantages and disadvantages of this job through IBDstudents’ experiences Besides, this research offered the solutions they have used to overcome thechallenges when they were doing at bubble tea shops Over the recent years, business bubble tea

in Vietnam has been increasing a lot, which we can see that bubble tea shops are everywhere So,this means that they need more human resources for this job After completing this survey, wefound that although this is an easy job, it still has some challenges for workers This study canhelp for the freshmen know the real situation of this job, so as to find solution to solve this job’schallenges