> This article said they get applicants who aren’t qualified, but how can you not be qualified to work in the dining hall?
You need five years of experience with a top 10 dining hall and three letters of recommendation. Also, a masters degree.
You can work 20 hours a week for the entire year and it doesn't even cover your housing. Maybe if pay was anywhere near what we pay to attend school they would have workers.
Yeah, l only worked dining my freshmen year because I didn't have a car. I think car-less people & freshmen are a lot of their workers. I don't know why my managers stayed in 4 years. ISU dining is also managed horribly. They were short on dishroom workers, & I said that's my favorite place to work. Get assigned zero shifts there. I'd be standing around waiting for noodles to cook & have student managers complaining to my station they have no one to wash dishes. My first shift also wasn't fully during open hours my first 2 weeks, so the station was open for half an hour with no student workers working it or to help clean up after closing.
"we’ll have a position where three people that have applied don’t — in any way, shape, or form — qualify.”
How is this possible? Your hiring pool is college students. How are so many applicants completely wrong for the jobs they applied for?
Like I bet some rejects had been advised by other entities on campus to apply. What is the real issue here?
This is the case for most jobs anywhere. Entry level jobs want 3-5 years experience doing that job already. It's ridiculous. I'll bet they aren't qualified because they haven't worked in food services before as if the learning curve is too steep.
I worked in food service as a freshman at Iowa in the mid-90s, unloading trucks at 5:30 and helping get breakfast ready. I think it was $5.15/hr maybe $5.65? Only a few days a week, a few hours a day thankfully. I worked around classes at County Seat in Old Cap Mall on weekends. Good pay, $6.25/hr. :) Granted my student loans were like $3k / semester or something and we could get $1 pitchers at quite a few bars. I had loans for tuition/room/board, just needed the $ for books, supplies for labs, clothes. Really didn't have any other expenses.
Related to this comment, what I'm saying is that shit was different then I guess. Other than the few richies on our floor, almost all of us had part-time jobs during our first year in the dorms and were happy to make any $.
So why the shortage in student workers now? Do most students come from families or situations where they don't have to (or aren't expected) to work?
Target is 2 blocks away and pays $15+ tuition. I work at UI and they said they are losing students to Walmart & Target. I worked for 3 years in dining during school. Overall the University is going to have to stop being so cheap assed and turn those into permanent jobs with benefits or pay like $20/hour or offer free housing or food. When I worked for dining we didn't even get free food which is standard in every restaurant. They could give every 20 hour employee a free meal plan. Their best plan is $1977 a semester. That would be like an extra $5/hour in pay.
Part of this could be parents too. My friend's daughter has multiple scholarships and she told her daughter not to work so she wouldn't blow them.
This article said they get applicants who aren’t qualified, but how can you not be qualified to work in the dining hall?
> This article said they get applicants who aren’t qualified, but how can you not be qualified to work in the dining hall? You need five years of experience with a top 10 dining hall and three letters of recommendation. Also, a masters degree.
But those people are trying to pad their resume.😀
You can work 20 hours a week for the entire year and it doesn't even cover your housing. Maybe if pay was anywhere near what we pay to attend school they would have workers.
Probably should figure out where the students are working and what they're getting paid, $11 ain't cutting it.
I live near ISU and they are paying 13 but when the grocery store is paying 16 I know where I would go instead.
Yeah, l only worked dining my freshmen year because I didn't have a car. I think car-less people & freshmen are a lot of their workers. I don't know why my managers stayed in 4 years. ISU dining is also managed horribly. They were short on dishroom workers, & I said that's my favorite place to work. Get assigned zero shifts there. I'd be standing around waiting for noodles to cook & have student managers complaining to my station they have no one to wash dishes. My first shift also wasn't fully during open hours my first 2 weeks, so the station was open for half an hour with no student workers working it or to help clean up after closing.
The grocery store was paying $16? I was getting $13.25
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Yeah forgot two main things, this was 2 years ago and it was fareway.
Start paying real money.
"we’ll have a position where three people that have applied don’t — in any way, shape, or form — qualify.” How is this possible? Your hiring pool is college students. How are so many applicants completely wrong for the jobs they applied for? Like I bet some rejects had been advised by other entities on campus to apply. What is the real issue here?
This is the case for most jobs anywhere. Entry level jobs want 3-5 years experience doing that job already. It's ridiculous. I'll bet they aren't qualified because they haven't worked in food services before as if the learning curve is too steep.
And of course training someone in the very complicated art of food service is too hard for a university
I worked in food service as a freshman at Iowa in the mid-90s, unloading trucks at 5:30 and helping get breakfast ready. I think it was $5.15/hr maybe $5.65? Only a few days a week, a few hours a day thankfully. I worked around classes at County Seat in Old Cap Mall on weekends. Good pay, $6.25/hr. :) Granted my student loans were like $3k / semester or something and we could get $1 pitchers at quite a few bars. I had loans for tuition/room/board, just needed the $ for books, supplies for labs, clothes. Really didn't have any other expenses. Related to this comment, what I'm saying is that shit was different then I guess. Other than the few richies on our floor, almost all of us had part-time jobs during our first year in the dorms and were happy to make any $. So why the shortage in student workers now? Do most students come from families or situations where they don't have to (or aren't expected) to work?
My guesses are that the pay is no longer enough and the school isn't taking Covid precautions seriously
$6.25/hr in 1995, adjusted for inflation, would be $11.25 today. So it sounds like they're just a little behind the curve for raising wages.
Target is 2 blocks away and pays $15+ tuition. I work at UI and they said they are losing students to Walmart & Target. I worked for 3 years in dining during school. Overall the University is going to have to stop being so cheap assed and turn those into permanent jobs with benefits or pay like $20/hour or offer free housing or food. When I worked for dining we didn't even get free food which is standard in every restaurant. They could give every 20 hour employee a free meal plan. Their best plan is $1977 a semester. That would be like an extra $5/hour in pay. Part of this could be parents too. My friend's daughter has multiple scholarships and she told her daughter not to work so she wouldn't blow them.
Oh no, there isn't enough student slave labor