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How does an 18 year old look for a job during a 'year out' these days?

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LimitIsUp · 09/10/2020 17:19

Dd finished her A levels and started on an Art Foundation Diploma this September (its a one year course that you do prior to a Fine Arts Degree).

Its the end of week 4 and she has had an epiphany that its not for her, she has concluded that she doesn't want to do a Fine Art degree in future and in fact she wants breathing space to think really carefully about her future degree / qualification / job pathway. So, she's quitting (I think its the right choice - at least she has worked out what she doesn't want to do)

While she is taking breathing space and deciding what she wants to do in the longer term, in the mean time she needs to concentrate on learning to be an adult (her words - she isn't very independent right now), finding some paid work etc

The work she does this year is temporary and won't form the basis of her career plans so she is happy to do the traditional entry level stuff - e.g. casual Christmas staff at the Post office parcel sorting depot/ stack shelves in Tesco / etc etc

Where do people look for jobs these days? As an old gimmer when I was her age in late eighties / early 1990's we looked in the newspapers and in the job centre! Pretty sure that's not how it is done now. Where do people look now? (yes, I am that out of touch)

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LimitIsUp · 15/10/2020 14:37

Good idea about the LinkedIn account

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WhatWouldJKRDo · 15/10/2020 14:51

Best of luck to her!

@Graphista, my DS - also 18 - has never had a paid job. He was far too busy being a volunteer Beavers and Scout leader while being an Explorer himself, working at the school radio station both presenting and producing programmes before and after school, giving up his holidays to build sets for the drama department and taking 4 academic A-Levels.

Not everyone goes down the "having a job" route. Plenty of young people are very busy and involved with their community/school/interests. THat doesn't make any of them slackers lacking ambition.

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