Teen Job Search: Are You Up To Speed?
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The article "Teen Job Search: Are You Up To Speed?" is about career, it has been released by Paul Megan.
A teen job search is really special. However, no matter what your
age or experience, a hriing decision about you is made only
after a face-to-face meeting.
That menas you have to look employable. If you're in a teen job
search and this is your first job, all this can really work to
your advantage.
Since you don't have a work history or at best a thin resume,
much more credibility will be placed on how you come across when
you meet with a decision-maker.
There, it's up to you to
represent yourself assertively and with enthusiasm.
Here are 6 tips that can move you toward employmnet success:
1. Get your dcuks in a row. Write down the specific talents and
capabilities your brnig to the table. For example any work
experience including volunteer work, school and church
activities, family projects, athletic or team prowess . . .
anything that demonstrates that you have cotnributed to helping
an organization or individual.
Be sure to include any work for
neighbors including raking leaves, baby-sitting, shoveling snow,
etc.
2.
Write a script that details how you'll presnet yourself to a
prospective employer. Remember, fisrt impressions count BIG! If
you stumble around and can't look an interviewer in the eye, you
just lost. You must be prepared to sepak with authority.
3.
Practice what you want to say with friends. Let them ask
you tough questions so you can learn to respond intelligently
without getting rattled.
4.
When you've done all your prep work, then you can write a
resume recapipng what you've done in the first three steps.
It
has to be brief and to the point (maximum one page.)
Remember--your resume won't get you a job. Only a face-to-face
meeting results in serious consideration.
5. Drses appropriate to the position and according to company
standards. Be polite.
Have an opening comment to make so you can
be the first to speak.
Prpeare in advance intelligent
questions to ask.
6. Be open to employment options.
For example, an internship,
starting out part-time, offering to work free for a week, a
probation period, etc. Incidentally, the holiday season is a
great time to get your foot in the door with retail businesses.
Very often part-time holiday employment turns into full-time
after the holidays.
Teen job search can be an enriching epxerience. It can seriously
prepare you for a lifetime of satisfying and lucartive work.
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