Most college students would love to earn significant money while on a December college break. Tell the students you care about—UPS may be the place to apply (for more reasons than just the paycheck).
What does UPS provide in addition to a paycheck?
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A lot.
1. Potential for a permanent part-time UPS job that lasts through college graduation
In most years, about one-third of people hired by UPS for seasonal package handler jobs are later hired in a permanent part- or full-time position when the holidays are over. Fully half of the current UPS management team consists of UPS employees promoted from part-time, entry level UPS positions. Amazing! About 138,000 current UPS employees—nearly a third of the company’s U.S. workforce—started in seasonal positions.
This is important, because nearly three-quarters (74%) of seasonal hires report that they would like their seasonal job to turn into a long-term position.*
*According to a survey conducted by TRUE Global Intelligence, the in-house research practice of FleishmanHillard.
This is excellent! Especially if you’ve listened to this podcast episode where I explain that students who work part-time during the academic year tend to get higher grades than students who don’t.
Win, win!
2. Generous UPS tuition reimbursement
As you’ll see here, even part-time UPS employees continuing on after the holidays can earn up to $25,000 to help pay their college bills at the college of their choice. Wow! (This is in addition to the competitive paychecks part-time UPS employees receive. UPS base pay is $21.00 or more per hour.)
Read the exciting things UPS says about its tuition reimbursement program on its website.
(When you finish that—read what I’ve written about tuition reimbursement here. I’m a huge fan!)
3. Highly attractive UPS career opportunities after college graduation
UPS has many, many careers that don’t involve driving a UPS truck or moving boxes. Students can graduate with a college major related to technology, marketing, management, accounting, aviation, or almost any other field—and still get a post-college job with UPS.
UPS’s position is that it’s “consistently training the part-time employees of today to be the senior executives of tomorrow.”
This makes sense!
If you’ve seen my article talking about tuition reimbursement, you should be thinking, “Hmmmmm—UPS might be keenly interested in hiring me for a post-college job after they just invested $25,000 in my college education!”
4. UPS provides generous health insurance benefits—even for part-time UPS employees!
Even part-time UPS employees are eligible for health, vision, hearing, dental, life, prescription, and disability insurances that have no deductibles, no co-insurance, and no-to-low copays.
(Part-time UPS employees become eligible for these benefits after working at least 225 hours in a 3-month period, and then filling out an enrollment form.)
5. Once you’re a UPS employee, you can make big bucks by suggesting that other people become UPS employees too
As a UPS employee, you’ll make a whopping $250 every time someone you refer signs on to work at UPS. Wow! UPS employees can make an extra $15,000 per calendar year doing this. It’s super simple when you—as a UPS employee—click on “GENERAL REFERRAL” here.
Here’s an easy way to do this. Once you’re hired at UPS, send this article you’re reading right now to your friends—and then the same day, put their names in as “GENERAL REFERRALS” here. Tell these friends to watch for an email from UPS inviting them to apply for a full- or part-time job.
Or—an alternative idea—as a UPS employee, you could make a TikTok video or a Facebook reel talking about all the great things I’ve listed in this article. Invite your viewers to message you so that “you can put them on the fast track to getting a UPS job.” Respond to each message by telling your viewer to look for an email from UPS—and then quickly put your viewer’s name into GENERAL REFERRALS here.
BOOM. You’ve set yourself up to earn big bucks every time one of these people signs up to work at UPS.
UPS is currently on a hiring spree (the company hires more than 125,000 seasonal workers between October and January each year).
Students can apply right now, get hired for a part-time UPS job that pays industry-leading wages, and then decide: “Do I want to start working part-time at UPS right away—while my school’s still in session? That might be a great idea! Or do I just want to work at UPS over winter break?”
Listen to video testimonials where current UPS employees talk about their jobs. (Some describe working at UPS as “life-changing.”)
Jason Grotelueschen took a part-time job at UPS that covered hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills for his family. Jason explains, “What really surprised me was [UPS] pays 100% of my insurance premium.” Jason works just 15-20 hours a week for UPS, and he doesn’t have to worry about his family’s medical bills in the event of an emergency.
After being unhoused, part-time employee Jeanette Palmer said, “[UPS] gave me the resources, and I ran with it.” Now a star employee, Jeanette says, “With UPS you can work your way up to any position.”
Applying for a job at UPS is fast and easy.
All students need to do to apply is visit upsjobs.com. Many applicants get a job offer in just 10 minutes. (Nearly 75% of UPS seasonal positions don’t even require an interview.)
UPS says, “Whether you’re interested in building a lifelong career with UPS or need a great short-term job that pays well and could lead to more, you can find exactly what you’re looking for right here:”
UPS has employees in more than 200 countries and territories. It’s one of the world’s largest package delivery companies in the world, with more than 540,000 employees and 2023 revenue of $91 billion. Chances are, UPS is hiring in your area.
But wait—how much can high school and college students earn in a year without sabotaging their financial aid for college?
I answer that in this podcast episode.
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Who is Jeannie Burlowski?
Jeannie is a full-time academic strategist, podcast host, and sought-after speaker for students ages 12–26, their parents, and the professionals who serve them. Her writing, speaking, and podcasting help parents set their kids up to graduate college debt-free, ready to jump directly into careers they excel at and love. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post, USA Today, Parents Magazine, and US News and World Report, and on CBS News.
Jeannie also helps students apply to law, medical, business, and grad school at her website GetIntoMedSchool.com.
I have received no compensation for the writing of this article. This article was updated on November 11th, 2024. No part of it was written using AI.