Student unemployment? Just check out trademe jobs...

This year, I decided to start my summer/ weekend job hunt nice and early, so that I didn't need to spend another holidays taking vegetable summer school papers and increasing my student loan. I anticipated that it would be a tedious process in the current economic crisis, having employment at an all time high. Yesterday afternoon I looked at the student job search website and found nothing, so opted to apply for a few things on Trademe and email my CV to some hotels, theaters etc. in Wellington. So far I have arranged for an interview later in the week at a hotel, as well as had an informal interview with a manager of a harbour cruise business who took down possible times that I could train later this week.

Have I just had a lucky day? Or will it be easier to find a job than I thought? Perhaps young people these days aren't pro-active enough in their job seeking or their résumés aren't pretty enough. I suppose I will find out in the coming weeks.