The problem with finding a job that fits around studying
If you want to work weekends, or only in the afternoons, or you are looking for something that does not require experience, you can spend hours searching on sites like LinkedIn or Indeed and still end up with forty full-time listings that are useless to you.
There is a portal where one click filters out everything except weekend jobs, and another click leaves only the ones that do not require experience. It is called StudentJob, and in this guide I show you exactly what is inside, with the real listings and numbers I found while searching.
What StudentJob is
StudentJob is the largest job portal for young people in Europe, with almost five million users.
It specializes in a single type of candidate: students, people with no experience, and recent graduates. So you will not be competing against people with fifteen years of resume history: every listing is built for someone who is just starting out or juggling work with studying.
On top of that, you do not need to register to apply for a listing. You can go in today, search, and apply directly.
The filter that changes everything: search by your free time, not the other way around
And here is the important part, what separates this portal from the big ones: its filters.
Look at the options it has: weekends, afternoon work, summer jobs, for students, no experience required.
This is more useful than it sounds. On a normal job board, you find a job and then try to make it fit your life. Here you search directly by the free time slot you actually have: if you can only work Saturdays and Sundays, you filter by weekend and everything that comes up is already compatible with you. No need to discard listing after listing.
What listings are actually inside
And now for what actually matters: what is inside.
Private tutoring: the standout listing type
One type of listing that comes up a lot, and one I find genuinely interesting, is private tutoring. There are listings to teach languages, math, music, or even sports, with rates between 12 and 30 euros an hour.
And you do not need a teaching degree: to tutor first-year middle school math, you just need to know the subject better than a twelve-year-old, and if you finished high school, you probably do. These are also loose hours that fit around any schedule, which makes them perfect if you are still studying.
The rest of the categories
You will also see listings in hospitality, promotions, sales, internships, and summer jobs. The variety is wide, though as with any portal, the volume depends on your city.
Watch out: there are also paid surveys disguised as job listings
There is something curious I found while searching here, because it connects directly with what we do on this blog.
Among the listings you will see ads along the lines of "we will pay you to share your opinions": paid surveys posted as if they were just another job listing.
If that is what you are looking for, you do not need to stumble onto them by chance between waiter listings. We have every platform of that kind we test and verify, each with its own review, withdrawal minimum, and pros and cons, in our top 5 best paid survey sites.
Conclusion: the right place if your schedule is the problem
So if what you are after is a weekend job or one compatible with your studies, StudentJob is a good place to start, mostly thanks to its filters. And if you also want to pair it with income from your phone, no schedules or bosses involved, you have the rest of the platforms we verify in our complete directory.
If you still lack experience and want to strengthen your application before applying, you have more tips in the guide on how to job hunt with no experience, and if you would rather find something closer to home outside these portals, ways to earn money in your city has more ideas.
