Professor Violina Rindova, together with her PhD student, is conducting a research project on entrepreneurial issues in Austin. She would like to hire students with strong sense of responsibility and adequate interpersonal communication skills to collect survey data from startup firms in Austin urban area (mostly within 3 mile radius of zip code 78712. i.e., the business school). So you do not necessarily need to have a car to do the job, but a car may provide extra convenience for you to finish the required job. You will start the job in mid March or early April. And if you prefer, you may also work in early July. Working time is flexible so it does not necessarily conflict your other part time job if you have any. This work can not only gain you the knowledge how academic research is conducted, but also practical knowhow of how to conduct survey research, which is widely conducted in academia and many fields of industry, such as marketing, customer service, and human resources management, etc. Interested students can send resumes or inquiries to Ye Dai at ye.dai@phd.mccombs.utexas.edu .
Specifically, your main duty will be to walk into firms to ask for their general managers to fill out a 10 minute survey (with a $25 gift card as an incentive). In addition to that, ask one or two more people in the firm to fill out another 3 minute survey. If you get the first survey finished and collected, you get $20, for each additional second survey finished and collected, you get $5. You may get assigned 40-50 firms and are expected to contact around 10 firms in each week. If we are especially efficient, then you can quicken the process, get more work load and more pays.