Students studying in France can have part-time jobs, and they can arrange their part-time hours according to their own study.
So how to study in France to work?
What kind of part-time jobs do you have?
What’s the hourly rate?
Here are the introductions.
In accordance with French laws and regulations, foreign students who are officially registered in a higher education institution and enjoy the university student social insurance system but do not enjoy any scholarship have the right to work,
But you have to apply to the French Ministry of Labour (Le ministere francais du Travail) for a “temporary work permit APT (autorisation provisoire de travail) so that when your rights are threatened,
There will be authorities to protect your rights.
However, freshmen who just came to France to study in the first year cannot apply for APT, so they are not allowed to work. This is also the reason why they need to submit the financial proof of their parents when handing over the visa.
In spite of the French regulations, most partners will ignore this regulation, and even many students who have studied in France for many years do not know the existence of APT.
Just arrived in France, after familiar with the surrounding environment, many people began to look for a job, such a situation in the job search is no problem, but later if the black boss arrears wages or even does not pay wages, can only mute eat coptis has a bitter can not say.
In France, international students can work up to 20 hours a week, but students need to obtain a work permit first.
Students can obtain this permit by registering with the French Labour Office with the employer’s contract.
In addition, students can concentrate their annual work time on the summer vacation, which means that students can work full-time during the summer vacation.
The French company has a very sound guarantee for workers, including the rest arrangement and meal time of part-time workers during the working period. The minimum wage guarantee is 9.4 euros per hour.
1. Restauration position types of restaurants: Serveur, Vendeur, Cuisinier, and Employepolyvalent.
Type of contract: Usually CDI for permanent employment, but can also be CDD.
Salary: SMIC if you work legally, lower or no tax if you work illegally.
But in fact, the restaurant industry can be divided into many kinds: French restaurants, Asian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, fast food restaurants.
Want to enter a traditional French restaurant work actually is difficult for foreign students, don’t think you have the B2 level of French can easily be competent, because you may know nothing about French service requirements (when give guest pour water, when to send small bread, when asked about the guest order), even can’t read the menu.
Before looking for a part-time job, you should first do a good job in French foundation, to ensure that your daily French, diet French level on a certain level before trying, otherwise it is a waste of money.
Talk about fast food restaurants.
Don’t think it’s easy to find a part-time job in a fast food restaurant. It turns out it’s not.
Because the Internet is not well developed in France, the application is often silent, so it is better to go shop by shop to ask if they are hiring.
Because fast food restaurant is very popular among students, so often before the beginning of the semester to ask, or take advantage of the holiday to ask, so it is easier to find vacancies.
Otherwise, they always say they’re full.
2. Child Garded ‘enfants Contract type: CDIatempspartiel, half-time contract, 4-15 hours per week.
Job description: Pick up and drop off children from school, take basic care of them (from 4pm to 7.30pm), play with children, prepare meals and take baths until parents get home.
Salary: 10brut/h sometimes transportation is included.
Job REQUIREMENTS: AVAILABLE time, previous experience in child care, driving bonus points, child care requires additional diploma.
Although the threshold of looking at children is not high, in fact, the time is relatively trivial, international students may not just have that part of the time;
And it may be difficult for Chinese students to convince someone to give you their baby if they have no previous experience of child care.
If you’re looking for this kind of part-time job, check out student job sites such as jobe, or check out various relevant agence sites on the street before you start school.
3. Grape picking vendanges/saisonnier contract Type: CDDvendanges (saisonnier) seasonal worker contract.
Salary: Smic or higher (+ package accommodation) + Indemnite (subsidy).
Job requirements: good physical strength, hard-working, young, full of power, self-driving.
When you come to the country of wine, you can’t understand the true meaning of wine if you don’t have a sweat in the vineyard.
Well, if the vineyard experience itself doesn’t convince you, does the euro appeal?
From mid-September to early October, the grapes are ripe.
Ripening grapes wait for no one, so farmers hire groups of a dozen or so casual grape-pickers, one for a coupeur, another for a porteur.
Such work usually lasts more than 10 days, in the countryside of France, so there are usually accommodation, transportation opportunities.
4, tutor Coursparticuliers/ guidetouristique/ interpreter traducteur, interprete contract: no contract, private discussion.
Salary: QUOTE your own price, usually market rate IS 15~25 EUROS/hour, tour guide, translator can be higher.
The characteristic of a Chinese in a foreign land is his native language.
This can be a disadvantage (French tastes Chinese) or an advantage (unique, after all, and rare).
Although not as intense as Chinese parents are about their children’s education, the French do occasionally hire private tutors, and the market price is not low.
But don’t get too excited too soon. Private teachers like this are coursparticuliers and you need to find your own articuliers.
The French use a super-antique personal information publishing site called, where you can find rental information, find a job, buy and sell second-hand goods, as well as personal services posted, all for free.
They should post their own Chinese teaching information on the school and other bulletin boards, which may be more suitable for the group.
In a word, service industries such as tutoring, tour guides and translators are not sustainable, and opportunities are hard to find. They can either expand their contacts and just find someone who has the need, or hope that there will be websites or apps connecting the supply and demand in the rapidly developing Internet.
