7 Strategies for Finding Professional Part-time Work

1. Apply for jobs that are listed as part-time.

2. Find a full-time job and negotiate it to part-time.
Take a full-time job and hope that once you're in it you can negotiate down to part-time.
Apply for full-time hoping to negotiate hours the way you would salary when offered the job (RISKY!!!)

3. Apply for a job as part of a job sharing team.

4. Work as a contractor.
Negotiate projects on your own.
Work through a staffing service.

5. Create your own position.
Volunteer
Convince an employer whose work you know that there's something that needs to be done on a part-time basis.
6. Start your own business.

7. Network, network, network!

Source: Linda Marks, Center for WorkLife Law, UC Hastings College of Law