Students are well suited to practically any task that does not require specific, long-term professional experience. This could be a one-off assignment, regular support for a few hours a week, or involvement in longer-term projects.

In an office setting, for example, students can assist with research, data entry, digitisation, preparing for meetings or maintaining records. In retail, catering and logistics, tasks such as stock management, stock-taking, order picking, customer service or helping to meet seasonal peaks in demand are suitable. At events, students can help with set-up, at the entrance, looking after guests or with the follow-up evaluation.

Even more demanding tasks can be effectively carried out by students if their field of study and skills match the requirements. These include, for example:

* Support with social media and content creation

* Researching and compiling specialist information

* Maintaining websites and databases

* Software development and simple programming tasks

* Support with architectural, construction or engineering projects

Of course, not every student automatically possesses every desired skill. The more precisely you describe the required knowledge, the more effectively STAV can select suitable students, thereby minimising your effort by only placing candidates who meet your requirements.

More time for your core business

The biggest benefit often lies not just in the extra work that gets done. Student support can ensure that your existing team has more time to focus on their core tasks. When a project manager has to regularly transfer data, a specialist has to sort event documents, or senior management has to enter data into spreadsheets themselves, valuable working time is tied up. Such tasks do not simply disappear – but they can be usefully delegated far more often than one might think.

Student support is therefore particularly worthwhile if you recognise any of the following statements:

* “Someone really ought to find the time for this.”

* “It’s actually an important task, but it always gets left undone.”

* “There isn’t enough work to justify a full-time role.”

* “We’ll need significantly more support over the next few weeks.”

Sometimes, just a few hours a week are enough to make a noticeable difference.

Gaining flexibility and future skilled workers

Students can do more than just fill short-term gaps. A longer-term collaboration offers both sides the opportunity to perhaps even discuss the prospect of a permanent role after graduation.

For companies, this can lead to early contact with potential future skilled workers. Students get to know your company, your working methods and your sector. At the same time, as an employer, you can see in day-to-day working life how reliably the collaboration works and what skills the person actually possesses.

This is no guarantee of a future job offer – but it provides a far more realistic basis than a single job interview. Particularly for smaller companies, which are less well known to graduates than large corporations, a good student job can be an effective way of attracting future skilled workers.

How STAV supports you

STAV brings your vacancy directly to students in Dresden. We check the details, revise the vacancy if necessary, and take your specified requirements into account when matching candidates. In doing so, we reach students from various universities and disciplines.

You retain the final say on who you hire. We handle the placement and establish contact. You will generally only incur costs with STAV if an employment relationship is actually established through our placement service. Further information can be found in our FAQs for employers and in the placement process.

Which tasks regularly go undone in your company? Perhaps this is exactly what you need to create a suitable student job vacancy in just a few minutes.