Saturday job for a teen. How to get one?

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In My day you just walked round the shops you fancy and asked and fill an application form out. It was pretty easy

Dd (15) but has her NI number wants to start looking. I have no idea how to get her to do it these days. Is it online. Is it walk about and ask ?
Agency's ?

help me please??
Thanks

Local Facebook groups. I see loads on our local one

Think about different places. Bingo halls etc is where I started out. I actually just went in and spoke to the manager, he took my details and called me a few weeks later when someone left. Ie cream stall, I just marched up and asked if they had any hours and I started there and then. It’s a good skill to go and ask if there are any vacancies and how do you apply.

DD, then 14, simply walked down our local high street with a CV on a Saturday, popped into all the cafes and had two job offers by the end of the day for waitressing.

Hospitality are desperate for staff, just search social media for job ads. Only working one day a week isn’t going to be much use to anyone though.

It is a real mixture.

Lots of places do stick a card in the window, or they might just 'luck out' by walking in and asking. Worth taking a mini CV with them.

Bigger companies tend to be all on-line - but won't take on 15 yr olds

On our local social media, people often advertise jobs

Word of mouth - keep talking to people. You talk to people. Let people know you are available.

Get out and do stuff voluntarily. My daughter has picked up quite a few babysitting jobs, and also a 'helping at children's party' job from adults seeing how good she is with children, through her volunteering with the Scouts. Then some further work from parents who have used her, recommending her to their friends, and so forth.

Use the time now to get a qualification - as a referee or as a lifeguard etc,

The shop I work in advertise on indeed etc

Also every shop I've ever worked in will happily take a cv even if they aren't looking for staff at that time! I actually got my current job doing that haha

As others have said hospitality are crying out for staff. There will be some jobs they can’t do but depending where you live I would have thought there would be something available

Yes local Facebook groups. But I would advise she posts the message herself. Nothing says ‘poor life skills’ like young people who make their parents interact with the public for them!

Big chains e.g. fast food and supermarkets will have an online portal. Both my kids were called in for an interview and had job offers within a couple of weeks of applying.

Do kids still do work experience at school? That is how I got my 1st job and stayed there on weekends throughout high school and during uni. Could that be an option?
McDonalds apparently have a good training plan, otherwise look in shop windows or have a CV printed out that she can take shop to shop.

We found all supermarkets and McDonalds wanted 16+, lifeguarding courses are all also 16+ from experience, dd and her friends all worked in small local cafes at 16.

Gah at 15!