FAQs

Fewer than 20% of our new Owner / Operators have had any previous managerial or painting experience. You must begin by recognizing what it takes to be successful. While your friends are relaxing on spring weekends, you will be setting up your summer. When exams are over and papers are in, the hours will be longer than any job you have had before. With our training and guidance, your success is based on how much effort you put into your business.

Thousands have gone before you and have been successful. Like you, they were university and college students, not super-human. What made them successful was their desire to stand above the crowd and lay the foundations for their future.

As you will be running a business, you make money based on the profit that your business generates (see financials). Every two weeks at the same time you pay your painters, you may withdraw profit from your account. Expect to draw your first profit cheque four weeks or $20,000 into production. Most of your profit comes in the last two months of the summer (July, August).

Student Works provides recruiting materials and the training necessary to source good people. The main ways are through networking, putting up posters, classified ads, job fairs, booths, student employment organizations and various websites.

On top of the extensive list of past clients we have for each area, Student Works will provide you with marketing materials and a system for using them. If the marketing systems are being followed, leads for jobs will be found.

Student Works does not take any money up front. We charge a percentage on sales through the summer plus an administration fee. Due to this fact, it is important that we find the right people, as we invest a lot in each individual prior to seeing any revenue. We cannot succeed without our Operators succeeding.

Standard painting equipment is needed, such as ladders, drop cloths, brushes etc. There are a few options available to students. Some will buy used equipment from past Operators; some will use the line of credit that we establish on behalf of all Operators. When your summer(s) are over this equipment can be readily re-sold usually for half to three quarters purchase price.

At Student Works we have all been through this program and were once all students with school at the top of our priority list. We specialize in helping students to manage their time around their school and extracurricular commitments. In fact, a number of students put in far more than 15-20 hours per week as they have set their goals a little higher and yet they still excel in school. Students who have gone through the program almost without exception find their marks go up due to the much better time management and organizational skills they develop.

We sign people up from all faculties. The experience gained from this is invaluable in all respects and will help a student in securing post-graduate employment in virtually any field. Doctors, lawyers, architects, administrators, teachers; they all may run their own businesses some day.

A business franchise is a business model where the franchisor (Student Works) grants the franchisee (You), the right to market services under the franchisor’s business systems and trade name, in return for fees and royalties. Business systems may include; sales and marketing, accounting, supplier relationships, service delivery procedures. Every franchisee can do well. Just because one franchisee does great does not mean all are going to do well. You get what you put in and sadly some people just don’t follow the systems, don’t put in the effort and don’t see success.