seasonal jobs

Summer lifeguard positions

Seasonal jobs are employment positions that exist only during particular times of year.

Retail stores hire extra workers for the holiday rush, farms need hands during harvest, ski resorts staff up in winter, and beach towns swell with workers each summer.

The work is temporary by design, tied to predictable cycles of demand: She picked up a seasonal job at the Christmas tree lot.

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employment duration and stability

seasonal jobspermanent employment

Ongoing work with no termination date

lifetime employment · union jobs

employment structure

seasonal jobstenured faculty

Professors with guaranteed employment

union jobs · lifetime employment

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