Any luck?
Congrats on your daughter wanting to get a job.
Some of the jobs listed (esp. temp agencies) may have age restrictions.
I cold called businesses asking whose looking for help filing/answering phones. 12 years later I’m still here and moved up the ladder.
What about a hostess at a restaurant? Just sitting people and not serving is a good job for teens. So are clothing stores.
Best of luck on the journey!
Applicant’s attitude is a huge deal. My daughter is 24 now. She had jobs all through high school and college and is now a nurse. Her work history has no gaps. From childcare to fast food to supermarket cashier to bookstore clerk to nursing.
My son is 20. He has never had a job. He claims he applies everywhere, but “it’s impossible unless you know someone”.
This is a great suggestion. Waiting tables might be out of reach, since restaurants that serve alcohol may have legal restrictions. Here in Colorado, you must be 18 to serve alcohol (still 21 to drink it, of course). Hostesses and table bussers don’t have that restriction.
Kids in our friendship circle have had great luck as supermarket baggers, Target cashiers, and senior residence food servers (I was called as a reference for that last job, since the kid has been a regular on the volunteer breakfast crew I organize once a month at our local homeless shelter).
My daughter, now a sophomore in college, has made really good money babysitting. Even in high school she was making $9-10/hour, and now makes at least $12 when she’s home from school. She’s also gotten on-the-books jobs by being both very intelligent and frighteningly (to this nerdy introvert) extroverted. She got a job at a local novelties-and-nostalgia-candy store by walking in and impressing the hell out of the owner. She was consistently their top up-seller while she was there.
My son, 16, has applied for a few things but suffers from my introversion issues, so I think he doesn’t impress on first meeting as much as my daughter. He has found a volunteer job that suits him, though. He goes in once a week to a non-profit that records local (i.e., small-town) Colorado newspaper stories for the visually-impaired. I’m mostly blind (though not a client of that particular service), so the fact he chose to do that makes me a little emotional. He’s learning some very basic recording/editing skills, so it’ll be good for his resume, even though it’s unpaid. He’ll try to find some seasonal part-time retail work in a month or so when stores start to ramp up for Chrismahannukwanzaa/Festivus.
Good luck. When you’re 16, I think just putting yourself out there in a competent way is 90% of it.