For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job.

If you are a college student looking for a part-time job, the best place to start your job search is right on campus.

A broader gauge, which includes those who have given up searching for a job and involuntary part-time workers, suggests more than one in six workers is underemployed.