The trend of choosing part-time jobs

Tài liệu nghiên cứu về xu hướng chọn việc làm part-time của sinh viên năm nhất của BA.

Banking Academy of Vietnam International School of Business

A Research Report

on The trend of choosing part-time jobs of ISBA freshmen Teacher: Truong Thuy Anh

Student: Dao Thi Huong Mo

Class:

Course: Project 2

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Abstract

Part-time work has become popular and is a matter of great concern to everyone, especially students This study was conducted to determine the trend of students choosing a part-time job Besides, the study also considers other aspects such as when choosing a part-time job, what are the reasons that affect students Or the factors students will consider when deciding to choose a part-time job Therefore, an online survey was conducted to collect answers related to 3 research questions Based on data collected from 200 ISBA freshmen, the results showed that more than half of the students surveyed had worked part-time In addition, the reason for motivating students to work part-time and earn extra income has received most of the attention from the participants It also shows that par-time jobs such as waiters or sales, teaching assistants and so on, which are very interested in students Through all of the above factors, this study also provides certain useful information for students who want or are looking for part-time jobs

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract 2

LIST OF FIGURES 4

1 Introduction 5

2 Literature Review 7

3 Methodology 7

4 Result 9

5 Discussion of findings 13

5.1 The motivating reasons to work part-time jobs 14

5.2 Common type of part-time job among students 14

5.3 Most concerning factors when choosing part-time jobs 15

6 Recommendations 16

7 Conclusion 17

References 18

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Student employment situation……… …9

Figure 2: The reasons why student do not have part-time job……… 10

Figure 3: The reasons that impact on people choice to work part-time……… 11

Figure 4: Common type of part-time job among student……….….12

Figure 5: Most concerning factors when choosing part-time jobs ……… 12

Figure 6: Salary……….13

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1 Introduction

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Global Employment Trends for Youth report (2012), the utilization of transitory contracts for youthful specialists has multiplied since the onset of the financial emergency There has been a rise in numerous created economies of non-standard shapes of work Therefore, in that context a concern concerning working time courses of action including exceptionally brief part-time hours and courses of action with no setup least hours at all, such as “on-call” work and “zero hours' ' contracts (Jon C and Paul, 2015, p.1) In this day and age, the part-time job is an issue that is of great concern to young people and they can see advertising about part-time jobs on social networking sites or a notice in the paper or can be heard from friends and so on Part-time jobs can be understood as requiring labor

to work in a shorter time to compare with an employee working full time One way to clearly describe “Part-time worker” as an utilized individual whose typical hours of work are less than those of comparable full-time laborer (Vương, et al, 2015, p.106) Very short hours are the key characteristic of this form of employment Normally, the people who work part-time can only work 4-8 hours per day or work less than 30 or 35 hours weekly (Vương, et al, 2015, p.106) Not only that, working part-time is one of the recruitment forms, which is a non-standard business

Today, the economy is growing strongly, many new entertainment services appear These are all places that attract students and are also demanding on the labor force Not only that, employment trends are also changing among young people as there are so many types of part-time jobs, especially in a lot of countries in the world In the bounty of advanced nations, Part-time work is closely connected to working within the casual economy, and so its quality is tied to measures pointed at moving forward working conditions and social assurance within the non-economic division In the meantime, the normal share of transitory business for grown-up laborers remained unaltered As of 2000, youthful individuals within the European Union were four times

as likely as grown-ups to be transitory workers, with 35.2 percent of youth workers on transitory contracts, compared with 8.9 percent for grown-ups, over 25 long years of age (ILO, 2012) In ILO news in 2012, there are research comments that show that

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time work is the foremost far-reaching sort of non-standard work found among ladies Besides, in the research of Jon C Messenger and Paul Wallot (2015, p.1), they have studied that “marginal” part-time or short-term part-time jobs make up a significant portion of the labor force in many economies such as Australia, Germany, the United States, the UK and so on Their development of part-time welfare inspires me to carry out a research paper about “The trend of choosing part-time jobs of ISBA freshmen”

Not only in some countries in the world but also in Viet Nam, Part-time jobs have been and always will be a hot issue Nguyen Huu Chi and Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen (GSO) (2010, p.2) wrote in their research that as other Asian nations, Vietnam has been influenced by the universal emergency and financial development has moderated down While the normal yearly development rate has come to 8.5% in 2004-2007, it diminished to 6.5% in 2008 and 5.3% in 2009(ILO, 2010 , p.2) In spite of the fact that the effect of the worldwide emergency was expansive, it might not be as expensive as

in other nations within the locale (ILO, 2010 , p.2) With China, Vietnam has been one

of the few Asian nations not in retreat in 2009 But that is only in the past In modern times, Vietnam is developing and growing stronger Moreover, many fast food brands such as Lotteria ,KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s or Circle K or so on, are gradually entering the rapidly growing Vietnamese market It is for that reason , the demand for the workforce and the ability to find jobs has also increased That is why there are new interests and preferences on this topic among Vietnamese people in general Or it can

be said that this is a strong boom in recent years Among many people from different age groups, there is a large proportion of college students who have the ability to accept, approach new ideas and experience new things Most of the students are choosing the form of part-time work because of the many benefits and benefits that it brings to themselves

There has been a study of a group of students in economics faculty of Can Tho university to determine the factors affecting the students' decision to work part-time In spite of their promising results, these things had a few restrictions since they had not, however, been able to put through and discover the trend of choosing part-time jobs for students in HaNoi in recent years That is the reason why I conduct this research to

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clarify more about the career choice trends of young people, especially the first year students in ISBA where I am currently studying As a result, this research is conducted

to answer the three taking after the address: “What are reasons that affect student’s choice of time jobs ?” ; “ What are the benefits that students can earn from part-time jobs?” and “What makes students concerned about having part-part-time jobs ? ” Furthermore, the study will go down on each aspect such as students can get bad academic performance when they have work or they have to pay attention to what things

as well as what students can learn and experience to serve the main job in the future In conclusion, this research will focus on the trend of choosing part-time jobs for first year

students at ISBA

2 Literature Review

There are a number of research papers on the issue of part-time employment both abroad and in Vietnam However, the foreign studies that I read are published by the ILO Therefore, these research studies may not be suitable for the situation of Vietnam

In Viet Nam, there has been a study of a group of students in economics faculty of Can Tho university to determine the factors affecting the students' decision to work part-time Although promising results, these also have some limitations due to surveying only a small portion of students in Can Tho University Moreover, because that study did not mention the trends of choosing part-time jobs, or some deeper problems of students in recent years

3 Methodology

Most of the information in this research paper comes from the results of a survey

of ISBA freshmen Those selected to participate in this study are ISBA's first-year students with or without part-time work in both sexes There are two main methods that are qualitative and quantitative It has differences between the two methods above According to DR Saul McLeod (2019), this simple qualitative thing that can be understood is the process of assembling, analyzing, and interpreting data There are a variety of ways of qualitative research methods such as collecting and analyzing non-numeric, uses emergent, flexible procedures, concerned with depth, diversity, and

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context, focus group, builds theory inductively or deductively, and so on Turning to quantitative research, this type of research includes the most objective data collection and analysis process According to the research of Abbey Rennemeyer (2020), rather than talking to individuals and getting their suppositions, you’re asking them yes or no questions Rather than inquiring somebody why they do something, you’re finding out what they do, or how numerous individuals do that thing, or how frequently and so on This research paper will use both of the two ways mentioned above to get objective and accurate results In order to answer the 3 questions in this study such as “What reasons”,

“What benefits”, or “What makes students concern about”, maybe just use one of the 2 research methods above Qualitative is the most used method in this study However, according to the research of Abbey Rennemeyer (2020), the method of research is never really definitive and it often has to be supported by quantitative research This is due to the fact that the disadvantage of this method, it is difficult to attract others to participate

in answering interview questions (possibly due to lack of time or unwillingness to share) As a result, the quantitative method will be used in combination with the qualitative method This is simply because the combination of both methods increase the policy, honesty of the research and in order to explore more aspects and problems

There are 2 ways to get information and data through questionnaires or interviews The questionnaire will be used in which participants are asked to answer different questions which are designed based on the 3 research questions In case of questions that are too difficult to write down a good answer to avoid people omitting non-option answers, interviewing is the preferred option Besides, the first part of the questionnaire is information about the interviewees Then there are detailed, specific questions related to those who have, are, will, and have not a part-time job All responses, information, and data from both types of interviews such as questionnaires and interviews will be recorded as data for future research In addition, in-depth interviews have been conducted when the results of the study are still not really clear and accurate In conclusion, I believe that thanks to the above methods, the data obtained are completely accurate, reliable and can give the most definite and objective research results

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4 Result

Through a survey of 200 people (including 109 female, 81 male, 5 other and some people who hide their gender ) who are first-year students of ISBA As expected, there are many differences of opinion around part-time jobs

As can be seen from the chart, of the 200 people who participated in the survey, the percentage of people who have a part-time job was 44%, which was 13% lower than people who have not part-time jobs

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Figure 1: Student employment situation

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Overall, the number of people who do not work part-time because of laziness, which was the highest at about 41% Don’t want to affect the academic performance and family objections were the 2 next reasons why students don’t work part-time The two reasons above were nearly the same at 40% and 36% respectively Not only that, the reasons such as don’t have time or have good financial potential or afraid to experience

a new environment were also typical reasons, which were followed closely at around 28% to 32% Meanwhile, the figure for others such as unable to find both a suitable and well-paid job, can’t arrange class schedules and so on were the lowest at 3.2%

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Figure 2: The reasons why student do not have part-time job

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It is also noticeable that when deciding to go to choose the part-time jobs, earning income received the most attention from participants with 66% Many people want to develop their personal skills and expand their social relationships to prepare for future careers Therefore, personal skills development came in second place at 60% and the percentage of people who want to expand social relationships was the third-highest at 53.3% In addition, many students also want to have a beautiful CV (32%) and desire

to experience (44%) Others occupied 1%, which was the lowest

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Figure 3: The reasons that impact on people choice to work

part-time

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As can be seen from the chart, the student often chooses to work as a waiter or waitress This figure accounted for the largest proportion at 35% Sales and Teaching assistants were identical at 32% Moreover, students were also interested in careers such as online selling, sales assistant, tutor, photographer or interpreter (translator) or telesales A few other jobs accounted for 15%, which include shippers, bartenders or related to social networks for example tiktoker, youtuber, streamer

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Figure 5: Most concerning factors when choosing part-time

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Figure 4:Common type of part-time job among students