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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
I'm not all too particular on what job I get. I'm fine with minimum wage, and I'm confident in my ability to learn how to do things. Also, just in case, what features would an employee look for in a resume? P.S. I hate that SC2 has inflation of points. I have to continually ladder to stay in the top 500 NA -_-.  | ||
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decafchicken
United States19917 Posts
But really i would say that 90% of high school jobs and the like come from knowing someone. I've gotten all of my jobs and all my friends have gotten all of theres through a friend, parent, etc that hooked them up. Yay networking. | ||
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revy
United States1524 Posts
My first job in H.S. was working for Starbucks when I was 15+3/4ths. The only real way to go about it is to go to places and submit applications, eventually you'll get hired. You could also try looking in a newspaper and local want ads. | ||
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JodoYodo
Canada1772 Posts
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
other than that you have to brute force it, when you hand in your resume make sure you try real hard to give it to the MANAGER in person, talk to him bullshit him up a bit, seem real interested specifically ask 'do you have any openings at the moment' | ||
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emperorchampion
Canada9496 Posts
edit: If you are looking for a minimum wage job you do not need to know anyone, maybe it's just where I lived, but part-time service jobs were about 90% chance of acceptance. All you have to do is prove yourself and not be lazy so you don't get fired. | ||
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brian
United States9582 Posts
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Kiante
Australia7069 Posts
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decafchicken
United States19917 Posts
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
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micronesia
United States24483 Posts
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ATeddyBear
Canada2843 Posts
On August 26 2010 14:54 lac29 wrote: Kumon, private tutoring, tutoring companies, etc ... they generally pay better than other HS jobs ... assuming you have the credentials to show others. My friend STRUGGLED to get a job tutoring and she's finished teachers college, has experience etc. You're going to have to apply everywhere. Retail is great experience to have, as you gain some you'll have a lot more opportunities which really helps to get you through university. Although right now, lowly jobs are hard to find, with tons of competition. | ||
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Kin~Slayer
Canada56 Posts
Can i just make a request from you? If you do get a job in like fast food or whatever, strive to be a good employee. Too many people take those kind of jobs for granted and are rude to customers + lazy etc. Take pride in what you do even if its only a high school part time job 1. ask to speak with the manager 2. Smile!! It'll make you feel better I promise I was at an employment workshop and the guy ran it told us something profound: Employers want to know that you can do 3 things and that's it 1. Solve their problems 2. Make them money 3. Grow their business Believe you can do that and prove it and you're in. Sorry about all the numbers, I wanted to be as clear as possible. IMO try to avoid the McJobs. While most the ppl there are great I just found the attitudes of the people esp. the managers and the atmosphere very depressing and exhausting. Go for something different, maybe work for your parent's friends or something that'll actually interest you, like a hobby shop. Heck maybe even deliver the community newsletter... which will be nice cuz we all know that nerds never excercise. Opportunities are boundless, you just need to look for them That being said McJobs = something familiar and hopefully steady My friend STRUGGLED to get a job tutoring and she's finished teachers college, has experience etc. My friends a history major and started his own tutoring company and is doing quite well with it | ||
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Ipp
United States456 Posts
Personally I've never worked in retail or anything but if I were to; it would be at a mall in some department store. Its big enough where you can hide from coworkers and has enough employees so you are bound to hit it off with someone. | ||
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
On August 26 2010 15:49 ATeddyBear wrote: My friend STRUGGLED to get a job tutoring and she's finished teachers college, has experience etc. You're going to have to apply everywhere. Retail is great experience to have, as you gain some you'll have a lot more opportunities which really helps to get you through university. Although right now, lowly jobs are hard to find, with tons of competition. I guess it really depends on a lot of things. If you're doing something like tutoring for SATs or HS level math ... then you better have some good scores to show ppl. You also need to be advertising for yourself. In the Asian community it's easy since you can often get your parents to spread the word among other parents (church, Chinese school, etc). You need to be posting on CL and high schools, etc if you're doing it by yourself. Right now I'm making $20/hr teaching SAT/essay writing/college app prep/pre-calc to 4 high schoolers. A lot of it was through word of mouth. I hear it isn't too difficult to work for Kaplan or other tutoring/study companies assuming you've done well in whatever you want to teach. I do however, think it's a good idea to also do regular sales/waiting work. I actually tried to get a restaurant job as a waiter many years ago in Chicago and found that I couldn't get any because they all looked for waiters who had experience. I've been told that because Chicago is a big city, competition for waiting jobs are fierce, so I'm guessing it'd be easier to find a waiting job in the suburbs. | ||
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
Also, take your jobs seriously no matter where you work at. Try and collect as many managers and supervisors who will be willing to write letters of recommendation in the future. | ||
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micronesia
United States24483 Posts
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tofucake
Hyrule18922 Posts
When you get to college/turn 20ish, a good job to get is a barback position somewhere. Barbacks make wage+10% of all servers' tips. On slow nights, barbacks will often make more than a bartender. Also, it opens you up to becoming a bartender yourself, which is VERY good money if you work at a popular bar. Sports bars are great as they often have things like Quizzo, which can draw huge crowds even mid-week. | ||
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
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hoborg
United States430 Posts
Just grind through those things at as many retail places are around you, you'll have to apply to like 20 places before you have a good chance of getting called back on one of them. An alternate route could be to find a temp/staffing agency near you that fills positions for warehouses and manual labor and such. Let them know the times when you're available - like weekends or 2nd shift weekdays - and they'll call you when they have jobs they need filled quick. This would probably be better paying work than retail, but it would be less regular. | ||
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