The Council of Labor Affairs is cooperating with 153 companies to provide 1,549 part-time jobs to help students from low-income families to overcome economic difficulties, a council spokesman said yesterday.
Navigation
The spokesman said the council was sponsoring the "navigation" program in the hope of helping these students tackle their financial troubles and learn skills in the workplace while encouraging companies to consider recruiting workers from among those part-time workers.
Since the beginning of the year, 1,333 students have been working on a part-time basis at the 153 companies under the council's sponsorship, he said.
He added that 64.8 percent of the companies offered long-term part-time jobs, while the remaining 35.2 percent provided part-time jobs on a short-term basis.
Among the students with the part-time jobs, 35.6 percent are from families whose parents are jobless laborers, while 26.8 percent are from single-mother families.
Growing number
Citing the results of a council study, the spokesman said that a growing number of businesses -- more than 60 percent of those surveyed -- viewed hiring young part-timers as a long-term strategy to cultivate promising workers.
"This will not only help companies reduce their training costs but will also lead students to value their part-time jobs as a good opportunity to learn working skills instead of seeing them just as a chance to earn some money in a short time," he said.
Part-time preference
However, most students still prefer short-term part-time jobs, in particular during summer vacations, he said, noting that 75 percent of the jobs offered under the navigation program were summer part-time jobs.
In terms of work categories, 78 percent were administrative part-time jobs, while customer service, sales promotion, market investigation, caregiver and cram school teacher positions were usually part-time jobs on a long-term basis.
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