Student job in Angers: sectors that hire, platforms and a CV

November 8, 2026 · 17 min read

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A student job in Angers is easier to find when you aim at the sectors that are active near the campuses and at the channels that are actually built for students, rather than sending the same CV to every employer in the city.

The aim is to raise your chances without dubious shortcuts and without hurting your credibility: a clear file, honest availability and targeted applications are worth more than twenty generic sends.

Angers is one of the large university centres of the greater west of France: the public service Mon Logement Étudiant counts 46,000 students for 157,000 inhabitants. The Université d'Angers alone has 27,491 students, spread across three Angers campuses (Belle-Beille, Saint-Serge and Santé), plus UCO, ESSCA, ESA, ESEO and the Arts et Métiers campus. This guide sets out the sectors that hire, the platforms to use, the pay and hours rules, then how to write a student-job CV adapted to the city.

In short

Aim close to your campus: Belle-Beille, Saint-Serge, Santé, the city centre and Angers-Saint-Laud station, using the Irigo network (tram and bus).
Jobaviz, the Crous platform, lists openings designed to stay compatible with studies. Cross it with local speculative applications.
The pay floor for an adult is the Smic: 12,31 € gross an hour, about 9,74 € net, since 1 June 2026.
The 24-hour weekly minimum set for part-time work does not apply to employees under 26 who are still studying.
A one-page CV that states your availability clearly is often enough: professional experience is not required.

How to find a student job in Angers, step by step

1. Fix your constraints before you apply

Write down the number of hours you can keep until the exams, the days blocked by classes and the real travel time from your residence or your campus. A contract that looks wide on paper soon clashes with an exam week.

If you are under 26 and still studying, the 24-hour weekly minimum set for part-time work is not imposed on you: you can sign a lower volume that fits your classes.

2. Choose two or three sectors, not ten

In Angers, recurring needs sit mostly in restaurants, retail, activity leadership, childcare and some local services. It is better to prepare a CV and a short letter for two families of roles than to apply everywhere with the same text.

3. Prepare a one-page CV that can be read in thirty seconds

The person hiring for a café in the city centre or a shop near Belle-Beille wants to know if you are free at the weekend, if you can arrive on time and if you can hold a service or a till. Put that information at the top of the document, just under your name. You can start from the CV generator and then adapt it to each type of role.

4. Target the right channels

Open a profile on Jobaviz, also leave your CV with the shops you actually use, and follow the openings around your campus. For an email to a floor or store manager, the application email generator helps you stay specific without copying a generic template.

5. Apply for real, not only online

In restaurants and in part of retail, showing up with a printed CV at a quiet hour (mid-afternoon, outside service) is often more effective than a form sent at midnight. Prepare one sentence of introduction: who you are, which campus, which slots, and from when you are available.

6. Track, follow up, prepare the conversation

Note the date, the place and the name of the person you met. A short follow-up after a few days is enough. If an interview is offered, practise talking about your availability and about a concrete situation (a busy service, an unhappy customer, an unexpected change) with the interview simulator. The application tracker keeps the thread when several applications move at the same time.

Jobshift: review openings one by one, including around Angers — Openings that fit your studies, one at a time. A swipe right prepares the application.

The sectors that actually hire in Angers

There is no official ranking of the jobs that hire the most students in the city. The local fabric and the categories highlighted by Jobaviz do let you target realistic families of roles, rather than aiming at "any job".

Sector	Where to look in Angers	Hours often offered	What the recruiter looks at
Restaurants and cafés	City centre, around Angers-Saint-Laud station, busy streets	Evenings, weekends, lunch service	Availability, punctuality, ease with people
Retail and supermarkets	City-centre shops and shopping centres in the area, including Beaucouzé	Saturdays, late evenings, holidays	Versatility, till work, pace
Activity leadership, tutoring, childcare	Residential areas, associations, families near the campuses	Late afternoon, Wednesdays, holidays	Seriousness, record check or activity diplomas depending on the role
Local services and reception	Campuses, libraries, health sites in the CHU d'Angers area	Split slots, sometimes in the daytime	Presentation, discretion, organisation
Seasonal farm work	Outside Angers, in the wine-growing Maine-et-Loire	Holidays, grape-harvest period	Stamina, exact dates of availability

The CHU d'Angers and the Santé campus are in the same part of the city: if you take health classes, filter reception, catering or logistics openings in that area to limit travel. Do not promise a hospital pace if your morning classes make you unavailable.

Around Angers, the harvest contract (contrat de vendanges) can be a seasonal option: it cannot last more than one month, several successive contracts are possible within a limit of two months a year, and this contract can benefit from an exemption of employee social contributions. It is not a job for the academic year: keep it for the holidays, without overlapping exams.

If you are looking for an apprenticeship contract (apprentissage or professionnalisation) rather than a job beside your classes, go to the alternance openings: the rhythm, the pay and the status are not those of a student job.

Where to look: platforms, Crous and neighbourhoods

The platforms that actually serve a student job

Channel	Why it helps	How to use it in Angers
Jobaviz	Crous platform, openings designed to stay compatible with studies	Create a "school year" profile and a "holidays" profile, filter on Angers, upload your CV
Speculative applications	Very useful in restaurants and in neighbourhood shops	Leave a CV on site at a quiet hour, or send a short local email
General job sites	A wider volume, including part-time	Filter on Angers and nearby towns (Avrillé, Trélazé, Beaucouzé, Les Ponts-de-Cé)
Your school's services	Openings that are sometimes unpublished (student life, reception, tutoring)	Visit the guidance service or the careers desk of your school
Jobshift	Swipe openings by profile, level and area	Import your CV once, then reread each application before it is sent

Jobaviz, presented by Étudiant.gouv, lists for free the openings posted by a wide range of employers, during the year and in the summer. You can set several search profiles, for example a "school year" profile with no full-time work in January, and a "holidays" profile. The Crous sites in Angers belong to the Crous de Nantes Pays de la Loire, which also runs the residences in the Belle-Beille area.

Neighbourhoods to match with your timetable

Belle-Beille: campus of the Université d'Angers (arts, sciences, IUT, Polytech), Crous residences, served in particular by the tram (line B, Cité universitaire stop according to the Crous). Logical for a late-afternoon job if you have classes there.
Saint-Serge: another Université d'Angers campus, closer to the centre. Practical for going from a class to an evening service in town.
Santé: the third Angers campus, next to the CHU d'Angers. Useful if you want to avoid crossing the whole city between the lecture hall and work.
City centre and Angers-Saint-Laud station: restaurants, shops, TER, Intercités and TGV arrivals. Weekend needs often concentrate here.
Nearby towns: Avrillé, Trélazé, Beaucouzé, Les Ponts-de-Cé or Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou stay reachable depending on the Irigo lines. Add them only if the trip really fits your day.

The Jobshift opening feed, with a search filtered on level and area (demonstration data, no personal data).

Pay, hours and type of contract

There is no separate "student contract" in the French labour code: you sign an ordinary contract, most often part-time. The rules below come from Service-Public and Étudiant.gouv. They apply in Angers as elsewhere in metropolitan France.

The pay floor: the Smic

Since 1 June 2026, according to Service-Public, the hourly Smic for an adult employee is 12,31 € gross, about 9,74 € net. The monthly Smic given for full time (35 hours) is 1 867,02 € gross, or 1 477,93 € net. These net amounts are given as an indication by the administration.

An employee under 18 who does not yet have six months of professional practice in the sector can receive a reduced Smic: 11,08 € gross an hour at 17, and 9,85 € at 16 or under.

In practice, ten hours paid at the adult Smic are 123,10 € gross (10 × 12,31 €). Twenty hours are 246,20 € gross. A collective agreement can set a higher minimum: in that case, that minimum applies.

Situation	Hourly gross Smic	Since
Adult employee	12,31 € (about 9,74 € net)	1 June 2026
17, less than 6 months of practice in the sector	11,08 €	1 June 2026
16 or under, less than 6 months of practice in the sector	9,85 €	1 June 2026

Be wary of an opening clearly under the Smic, of cash-in-hand pay with no payslip, or of an employer who refuses any written contract: that is not a shortcut. It is a loss of rights (sickness, unemployment, retirement) and a risk for you.

How many hours, and under which contract?

For an adult student, the ceilings are those of any private-sector employee, recalled by Service-Public: 10 hours a day at most, 48 hours in the same week, or 44 hours on average over 12 consecutive weeks. The legal full-time duration remains 35 hours a week. A break of at least 20 minutes is due from 6 consecutive hours of work.

For an employee aged 16 or 17, Service-Public sets stricter limits: 8 hours a day and 35 hours a week at most, no more than 4 hours 30 of uninterrupted work (then a 30-minute break), 12 hours of daily rest and 2 consecutive days of rest a week.

The part-time contract must be in writing. A part-time employee can have several employers, as long as the total hours stay under the legal maximums.

The most common forms for a student job are the CDD (including for a temporary increase in activity or a seasonal need) and, more rarely, a part-time CDI. According to Étudiant.gouv, a student on a CDD has the same rights and duties as any other employee, with one difference: the précarité indemnity is not due at the end of the contract if the student continues the course.

An internship is not a student job: it is not an employment contract and it must match a teaching project. Do not sign an "internship agreement" for real work paid at the Smic, and do not do the reverse either.

Adapting a student-job CV

A student-job CV does not need to imitate the CV of a recent graduate aiming at a first permanent contract. One page, a simple structure and visible availability are enough. To go further on layout with no experience, see how to write a resume with no professional experience.

What must show up immediately

A clear title: "First-year literature student: looking for restaurant work, weekends and evenings" rather than "CV" or "Motivated student".
Your availability: days, slots, start date, and what changes during exams.
Your base in Angers: course, campus (Belle-Beille, Saint-Serge, Santé, UCO, ESSCA, ESEO) and how you travel (Irigo, bike).
Four to six skills useful for the role: reception, till, language, driving licence B, BAFA, punctuality already shown in a student association.
Even a short experience: babysitting, association sales, a summer job, a student-union responsibility. Describe what you did, not only the name of the activity.

Large employers often filter applications with ATS software: keep a simple layout, without overly decorative columns, and reuse the words of the ad. You can check how readable your file is with the ATS test. For a short letter to a store manager, the cover letter generator gives you a base to rewrite with the name of the place and your slots.

The Jobshift CV generator, with an example of a student profile in Angers (demonstration data).

Three profiles, three strategies

Léa, first-year literature at Belle-Beille, aims at 8 to 12 hours in retail

Léa has daytime classes on the Belle-Beille campus. She targets shops reachable by tram and a Saturday slot plus one weekday evening. Her CV fits on one page, opens with "student at Belle-Beille, free on Saturdays and one evening", and mentions a year helping to organise a student festival. She leaves her CV in the shop on Tuesday afternoon and follows up once by message.

Mehdi, engineering student, aims at tutoring and weekend reception

Mehdi has a heavy weekday timetable. He creates two Jobaviz profiles: one for the year (a few hours of maths or computer tutoring) and one for the holidays. He does not accept a 20-hour contract that would cover his projects. If he aims at a more formal role, he prepares the interview with concrete examples (explaining an exercise, welcoming a visitor, keeping a schedule).

Nina, 17, looks for a job during the holidays and on Wednesdays

Nina is a minor: she cannot exceed 8 hours a day or 35 hours a week, and her hourly Smic can be reduced if she does not yet have six months of practice in the sector. She aims at a shop or at activity leadership on Wednesdays and during the holidays, with her legal guardian's authorisation. She does not promise late evening services that clash with the night-work rules for minors.

The mistakes that cost you a student job in Angers

Sending the same CV everywhere. A café near the station and a family looking for babysitting in Avrillé do not read the same information first.
Overstating your availability. Cancelling after two weeks because Thursday classes were badly planned burns a local contact, in a city where student networks overlap.
Applying only online. In restaurants and in many neighbourhood shops, not showing up puts you behind the people who did.
Ignoring the contract. Working with no payslip and no written terms, or accepting pay under the Smic, is not an arrangement without consequences.
Mixing up a job, an internship and an alternance. An internship is not meant to replace a job paid at the Smic. An alternance has its own rules and its own calendar.
Forgetting the trip. A job "in Angers" that is in practice at the other end of the area, badly served on Sunday evening, can cost more time than money.

Checklist before you send your application

Your availability is written at the top of the CV, including during exams.
The CV title names the type of role you want, not only "student".
The campus, the course and how you travel in Angers appear on the first reading.
The file fits on one page and reuses the words of the ad if you are answering an opening.
You have a follow-up channel (date, name, place) and a professional email or phone number.
The contract offered is in writing, at least at the Smic, and the volume of hours stays compatible with your classes.
If you are under 18, the hour ceilings and the legal guardian's authorisation are respected.

Find openings that fit your studies with Jobshift

Jobshift is aimed in particular at students and juniors who want to apply to openings that match their profile, without sending the same file to everyone.

You import your CV once to create your candidate profile.
You swipe the openings that match your occupation, your level and your search area, including around Angers.
On each swipe right, Jobshift prepares a CV and a cover letter adapted to the opening, then submits the application in the recruiter's ATS (notably Greenhouse and Lever). You can reread, edit or cancel each application before it is sent.
Your applications are saved in your candidate space, with the company, the role and the date.

See Jobshift for juniors and the detail on how Jobshift works. To browse openings, go to the Jobs page.

Jobshift: apply to the openings that match you in one swipe. Reread each application before it is sent. Try Jobshift for free

FAQ

Where can you find a student job in Angers?

Start with Jobaviz, the Crous platform dedicated to openings compatible with studies, then cross it with speculative applications in the city centre, around Angers-Saint-Laud station and near your campus (Belle-Beille, Saint-Serge or Santé). The Crous de Nantes Pays de la Loire also covers Angers.

What is the pay for a student job in Angers?

There is no pay specific to Angers: an adult employee cannot be paid under the Smic, that is 12,31 € gross an hour (about 9,74 € net) since 1 June 2026, according to Service-Public. A minor under 18 without six months of practice in the sector can receive a reduced Smic: 11,08 € gross at 17 and 9,85 € at 16.

How many hours can you work while studying?

An adult student is subject to the same ceilings as other employees: 10 hours a day, and 48 hours in the same week or 44 hours on average over 12 weeks. The 24-hour weekly minimum set for part-time work does not apply to employees under 26 who are still studying. A minor aged 16 or 17 cannot exceed 8 hours a day and 35 hours a week.

Do you need experience to get a student job in Angers?

No. Many roles in restaurants, retail, childcare or activity leadership hire with no experience, as long as your CV clearly states your availability and your transferable skills, and you can get there easily, for example on the Irigo network.

How do you write a CV for a student job?

One page is enough: a title for the role you want, your availability (evenings, weekends, holidays), your course and your campus, then four to six concrete skills. If you have not worked yet, detail a student-association project, a summer job or a student responsibility.

Can a foreign student work in Angers?

A European or Swiss student can take a student job freely. A student from outside the European Union and Switzerland must hold a long-stay "étudiant" visa or a residence card marked "étudiant", and can work up to 60 % of full time, that is 964 hours a year, according to Étudiant.gouv. The employer must declare the hire to the prefecture.