CareerBuilder's Summer Jobs Survey notes that 23% of companies are adding seasonal staff and they are hiring now. Most of the jobs are traditional: office support, customer service, landscape/maintenance, research, and restaurant/food service.

However, there are also some unusual summer jobs that workers shared with CareerBuilder: chicken wrangler, caretaker for diabetic monkeys, clown in an underwater theater, cast member in a haunted house, gopher hunter, soap-maker in a mock colonial village, picking burnt potato chips off a conveyor, and scrubbing rubber ducks for a national rubber duck race. I don't think I want to know about the gophers or the chickens, but some of the others sound like they could be an interesting or fun way to spend the summer.

If you haven't done so already, start your summer job search now, so you don't miss out on good opportunities with early application deadlines. There are sites that list just summer jobs and others that list summer camp jobs. You can search CareerBuilder, the other job boards, and the job search engine sites using "summer" as a keyword. Don't forget to ask your school Guidance Office or college Career Office if they can help. Also check the newspaper. It's a good source for local summer job listings.

Summer Jobs:

• Summer Jobs
• Summer Camp Jobs
• Part-Time / Hourly Jobs
• Job Search Engines
• Job Search Keywords

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