Parents Guide to Helping the Teen or Young Adult Find a Job
If you’re the parent of a pre-teen or teenager, helping them get their first job is one of the first steps toward maturity and personal responsibility. Here are seven ways you can ensure that their job hunt is a rewarding one.
Job Search: Apprenticeships A Great Way To Learn
As teens and young adults just starting out in the job world we soon discover that learning a new, highly skilled profession requires an in-depth, hands-on, committed training experience. This is where the process of apprenticeship occurs. It fills-in the training gap in those places where supervision is needed and provides hands-on help and a solid understanding of how a specific process works. Apprenticeship is one of the most successful methods any person can use to develop new skills, especially in a highly technical craft.
Job Search: Marketing Your College Degree
Do you have something to offer that others don't? Are you specialized to do something not everyone is? If so, you probably have a marketable college degree. Many people graduate college, or trade schools thinking they will be magically picked up by a company because of their degree. Sadly, many don't realize that there are others marketing their specialties to companies making it harder for them to hire you instead of them.
Pet Setting an Interesting Job For Kids and Teens
As teens, tweens, kids and young adults finding ways to make money can often present quite a challenge. Youth are faced with many challenges from their school and activity schedules to lack of employment and transportation in their area to the child labor laws of the community, state and federal government. Pet sitting f or friends, relatives and neighbors after school, weekends or during vacation breaks provides what can be a fun and rewarding money making idea.


