http://teenjobfinder.net Earn Money, Gain Experience, Have Fun! Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:18:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the age of sixteen I got a job at a movie theater. It turned out to be a fantastic place to work for teens and was one of the most fun filled experiences of my early years. A teen job at a movie theater is great for a student ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/09/21/teen-job-finder-movie-theater/ When a company posts a job opening on a Teen Jobs website they are likely to get hundreds, maybe thousands of resumes. To the person reviewing all of those job applications getting that large number of resumes is a good news/bad news situation. The good news is that ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/09/06/teen-jobs-%e2%80%93-search-engine-optimizing-your-resume/ As I write this article for Teen Job Finder it’s just September; but, believe it or not, some employers, especially retail stores and malls, are gearing up for the Christmas Holiday shopping season. They are going to need to hire extra employees, mostly teenagers, for the few weeks leading ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/09/05/christmas-holiday-jobs-for-teens-on-teen-job-finder/ If you are the parent of a teenage child who is about to get a job for the first time, there are several things you should do to prepare them and improve their chances of employment success. If you don’t teach them, no one else will. Here are thirteen powerful lessons ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/08/28/thirteen-things-you-should-do-to-prepare-your-teenager-for-getting-a-job/ As a teenager you are in a unique position to get jobs that are really cool and fun. A great example is a job at an amusement park. Theme parks and amusement parks are almost always looking for new talent and they often target their recruiting towards candidates ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/08/17/jobs-for-teens-at-amusement-parks/ I recently asked several hundred recruiters in my network (many of whom have teen jobs available) to send me the advice they would give to teenagers trying to find jobs. Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting their responses. And, if they typically have teen jobs available I’ll post ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/08/04/advice-for-teenage-job-seekers-from-an-australian-recruiter/ Don’t blow your chances of getting the job through a teen job finder site by sending an email that looks like it was written by a 7 year old. Since 1993 I’ve hired thousands of people, and I can’t tell you how many emails I’ve received from people (who were ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/07/28/applying-to-a-teen-job-finder-listing-by-email-the-right-way/ In the United States, the Federal Department of Labor does not allow kids under the age of 14 to work as employees (except in very rare cases – like actors). The Department of Labor also puts restrictions on what kinds of jobs workers who are 14 and 15 years ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/07/28/teen-job-finder-age-limits-and-legal-restrictions/ For the most part, companies using a teen job finder service to recruit workers are not going to expect you to have a resume. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have one. Putting together a basic, clean, well organized resume will make you stand out from the competition ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/07/24/should-a-teen-job-finder-have-a-resume-and-how-should-it-look/ As a teen job finder or seeker you’re going to need to understand that, in order to succeed, you have to offer something of value to the company that hires you. No company, that I know of, wants to just give people a paycheck for doing nothing or hanging ... http://teenjobfinder.net/2008/07/22/why-would-an-employer-hire-you-from-a-teen-job-finder-site-and-what-do-they-want-from-you/