How did you get 16 year old part time jobs

[whenwillthemadnessend]

My 16 is applying for part time
Work now waitressing. Sale assistant supermarket etc

No
Bugger has got back to her

How did your sixteen year olds get their first job.

She is bright and articulate so it can't be that. I thought places were desperate

Hospitality, unless a cafe, is really tricky at 16 because of serving alcohol. Go round every shop and cafe in your local town. Keep going round every week. If they say apply online only then she needs to apply for every single one she can. It's hard at the moment as most jobs get hundreds of applications.

Indeed was the best for my DS. He had quite a few rejections and no interviews but then got lucky and got an interview at a food chain via indeed and got the job. Other DS was a friend of a friend and that's how he has subsequently recommended friends to work with him at a sports shop.Does your daughter know anyone who has a job that could let her know when vacancies come up where they work?

My daughter (then 16) got her job with Dominoes last September by enrolling with Indeed.

I didn’t. Everywhere seemed to want 18 year olds. The only kids we knew who were working at 16 had got the job through family connections.

DS 1 got his job through Indeed.
DS 2 called in opportunistically and spoke to the manager.

Are either of you on Facebook?
Loads of places advertise on Facebook local groups round here - mostly hospitality. She could also post on local groups to say that she is looking for work.

DS did take his CV around to a number of places but not a single one got back to him. He got a job in a supermarket in the end because a family member was already working there. I don’t know if it’s the case with every supermarket, but the one he works in always employs family members/friends of staff rather than advertising. When he was 16 the only kids of that age who got work were those who had contacts. Usually in cafes, kitchen staff in restaurants, cash in hand jobs etc. By 17 and 18 it got easier.

There's conmpany wide recruitment bans in many companies right now

Mine does the same as @Flamingoose, she coaches children in her sport.
She recently had to do a full day course so now can work over the summer holidays when they run summer sport camps and will also have opportunities to do more courses to progress.

Helps when it’s something they already feel passionate about. I used to be a cleaner at the local university before school each day and can’t say I ever felt thrilled to be there at 6am. But money’s money when you’re 16 and trying to be independent!

Every time someone asks about jobs for teens (local Facebook), a few of us mention the newsagent that DS delivers papers for. That shop still seems to have deliverer shortages. I don't like being awake at 6:30am either.

16yo DS got job in chip shop via friend who already worked there. 13yoDS got paper delivery job via BigDS who got his first delivery job after almost-16yo DD got a job both serving in newsagent & delivering : because she's presentable & sociable. Can staff still sell cigarettes at age 16?

DS has applied for about 15 jobs at all the chain places nearby either using Indeed or their company sites. Had one interview so far. Not heard back but it was only done on Friday. Had two knock backs already from two without interview. He has to have a job for the course he’s starting in September but I guess at least he can prove he’s been trying !

DDs experience was that many places can't take on 16 year olds due to insurance.

She got a job waitressing in a pub via indeed. I echo everyone else - she was told she got the job as she applied herself. (She tried handing out CVs in our local town but didn't seem to get her anywhere)

Ironically her pub is desperate for staff but struggling to recruit. Good luck!

I wouldn't employ any 16year old who doesn't do their own leg work!
A parent asking for a nearly adult would make me think that they are not motivated, enthusiastic or suitable for a public speaking role.
Get her to print of CV's and sell her attributes herself that way perspective employers can see who they're likely to employ.
Walk the town and find her own employment.

My DD set off with her CV and walked around our local town handing them in to every shop. She had a job by the end of the day.

@MistyFuckingQuigley that's not true around here. When I've been in a couple of cafes and asked if they have jobs they've both asked for a paper cv to be dropped round.

One got a job as a cleaner in his school, one saw an advert in the local coop and the other one had a friend who was an occasional waiter in a hotel and told him they needed people.

@waveyourpompoms I think enquiring when the 16 year old is in an exam and I'm having a coffee isn't a red flag!!! I agree she'll need to go round but asking if they have jobs etc seems ok to me.

DS16 works as a pool lifeguard. There is a national shortage of lifeguards apparently and as he needed to learn a skill for his Duke of Edinburgh award scheme we paid for him to do the week long course to get his qualification. It's £280 to do the course but we did it as a birthday gift as he didn't want to have a party.

He immediately got a weekend job paying £12 an hour as a lifeguard/birthday party host at children's pool parties. It's a zero hours contract so some weekends he earns loads and some he earns nothing. It's worked perfectly as he doesn't have to do many hours which is great while he has been doing GCSE revision.

He's just applied to be a casual bank lifeguard for the local municipal pool - pays less per hour (£10 p/h) but there are more hours available apparently. They've been having to cancel pool sessions due to lack of lifeguards. He's hoping to be able to work through the school holidays and some evenings too.

I did mcDonalds was a big shock to my sheltered life but recommend it.

Both my kids got jobs through indeed. There are loads about at the moment.

I wrote a CV for mine, and as I work in recruitment myself, I made sure it was well written and it contained all the key elements to make it attractive. Then I printed 20 copies and sent DS into town saying he should not come back home until he handed all 20 of them in different restaurants. He came back home with 19 copies and started to work as a waiter 2 days later

DD walked into a brilliant 6 hours a week contract job at Next just three week after her 16th birthday. She was looking on Indeed every day and applying for everything, Next's advert directed to to an online form where she filled in a form, answered a few easy screening questions and multiple choice questions, they phoned her within an hour to set up an interview and she started the next week - they were desperate for staff.

She did have a LOT of people who just never bothered getting back to her though.

Oh and her age is an issue. 16 year olds cannot work after a certain time at night, before a certain time in hte morning (DD can't do the early starts when Next has a big sale on), and get more breaks than older workers - DD gets 15 minutes longer than people who are 17 or 18. They also cannot serve/sell alcohol so many licensed bars/restaurants just aren't interested in younger applicants.

What do 16 year olds have on their CVS? I'm not being facetious, I'd just really like to know what kind of things yours have mentioned?
My dc go to school but do very long days and don't do any out of school clubs or sports as those are done within school time.
I was lucky enough to get constant work as my uncle had a retail business, but we live rurally and the local pub already said they don't employ 16yo as they never seem to work out!

DoE awards, responsibilities within school (prefect and stuff like that), babysitting, volunteer experience (as part of DoE)