How to get a job as a teenager

• Volunteer for things. (Churches, clubs, school activities, etc.)
• Apply as soon as you hear about the job offering
• You can apply for more than one job at a time.
• You can’t be too picky on what you want to do, but something you’re interested in. But remember, it’s just a teen job
• Go over and practice on what you are going to say.
• Make sure your references are accurate and approved.

During an interview:

• After you apply, try to talk to the manager, but don’t be a burden.
• When you go to your interview, make sure you dress dressy, but not too dressy.
• Be confident and determined in your interview. Also, make sure you show those things.
• Be prepared for the questions that you might be asked.
• Speak up, sit up straight, and be “full on” with your questions and answers.
• Have a resume!
• Be aware of your body language.
• Arrive between 5-10 minutes early.
• Let your personality show when you’re interviewing. Be nice and friendly. The interviewer wants to see who you are and what you have to offer.
• When you are greeting your interviewer, greet them with a handshake and a smile.
• Make good eye contact.
• Avoid rambling.
• Thank the interviewer for their time.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2343851_job-as-teenager.html This link is tips on how to get a job and help you on an interview as a teenager.

Jobless Teenagers

These days, jobs are hard to find. Especially for teens, most teens want and need jobs. The percentage of teens that wanted jobs, but couldn’t get one is 25.7 percent. It should be easy for teens to get a job because they are young and their knowledge is still progressing and it’s fresh.  Also, it is better for teens to have jobs because it prepares them for the future, teaches them what a job will be like, responsibility, and it will help them decide on what they actually want to do for their career.

The economic recession has some what to do with the fact of teens not being able to get jobs, but also some of them are due to the fact that people don’t want to hire teenagers because they could hire an adult who would require less training than a teenager would. In my opinion, it’s not fair to choose an adult over a teenager just because of training or the argument that “adults have more knowledge.”  Teens also need jobs to save up, so when they do get out on their own in the real world, they have some money to get themselves started, and not just thrown into the recession we have today.

“It’s good experience and it's good to put on your college application,” “You can’t put sitting around and doing nothing on your application.”  This quote is from a girl who was supposed to have a job, and they left her jobless. She has a very good point, and those people were wrong for doing what they did.

In conclusion, my opinion is that people should give the teenage era a chance to also be able to succeed in their later on lives, and be given at least the little jobs such as a convenient store, a gas station, someone who runs the cash register at the local wal-mart. Any job available is a job a teen would take.

School Dress Codes

School dress codes today are crazy and in my opinion, stupid. Schools will let girls wear short shorts on any day, but the second someone wears pants with the smallest hole in them, it could be a suspension.

 What you can expect to learn from my post is that it’s nonsense to allow a girl to wear short shorts to school, but not pants with the smallest hole in them. If you can wear the tiniest shorts to school, then you should be able to wear pants with a little hole, or even a big hole in them. Another dress code violation is spaghetti straps. The only thing that shows is a bra strap, which is not reveling to anything in any way except that you can see a bra strap.

  What interest me about this topic is that I don’t think that the school’s dress codes are fair or right at all. Schools and administration need to worry about other more important things than spaghetti straps and holes in a pair of jeans.

Not only do schools have dress codes like this, some even make you wear a specific uniform. Students should be able to wear what they want. (With an extent) A lot of students express themselves by their clothes.