SAIT offers both an education and an accommodating job through out the school year for students trying to manage their studies and earn an income.
With convenient hours and a decent wage, SAIT students are able to work on campus and still find time to keep on top of their studies.
“It’s very handy for me,” Inna Ivanova, 20, said.
Ivanova is a second year respiratory therapy student at SAIT who has been working part time on campus for two years.
Ivanova said her motive to take a job at school was because she is a resident at SAIT.
With out owning a car, Ivanova would find it difficult traveling to and from work if she had a job off campus.
“It’s very flexible,” Ivanova said. She finds exam time less stressful knowing she needs to take time off to study, her employer would understand and try to help her out.
Because SAITSA is run by SAIT students, it understands the pressures and stress students undergo.
Ivanova said she enjoys working with other students on her shift. She finds it to be a lot of fun.
SAITSA offers many different work positions for students who are looking for extra income while in school.
25-year-old Tiffany Smith is another student employed by SAITSA . Smith is enrolled in SAIT’s journalism program, and currently completing her second year.
“I wanted to get involved with the SAIT community,” Smith said.
Smith applied for a job on campus last semester, but was turned down and was told she needed to get some volunteering for SAIT done first.
She decided to join the Public Relations communications. This is where she volunteered to help promote events that were happening around at SAIT.
Smith volunteered her time to hang up posters and other notices around campus.
This continued through out all first semester, and when Smith’s second semester began in 2010 she was offered a job working in the SAITSA office.
“This job works great around my schedule,” Smith said.
The first year journalist student said that SAITSA is really understanding when it comes to school and her schedule.
Smith said her job at the SAITSA office is a lot better than the job she previously held in Kensington because it used to clash with her school schedule.
Luis Alves, 23, a student in SAIT’s Travel and Tourism program, was born and grew up in Brazil.
In January of 2008 Alves moved to Canada to pursue and education in Calgary Alberta. He is currently in his final semester of the Travel and Tourism program.
Due to the fact that Alves is an Inernational student and only has a student visa, a job on SAIT campus was his only option.
“It’s easier for me,” Alves said.
Alves has held a job working at the SAITSA office in the heart building. He said SAITSA is very accommodating to my school timetable.
“It has benefited me a lot,” Alves said.
