<p>ever heard of ebay?</p>
<p>Making money through ebay isn't as easy as ppl think.</p>
<p>fox, if what you say is true, then don't flame me with "what the hell are you talking about."</p>
<p>^sorry didn't mean anything by it. Unrelated question: are you male or female pearfire? I think you may know a friend of mine at columbiacollege.</p>
<p>Really? It might be possible, you can pm me if you don't want to reveal the info openly.</p>
<p>I got an internship at a software company this summer and I am a High School Junior...</p>
<p>Real live employer checking in here with some job hunting advice.</p>
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<li><p>The reason I would hire summer help is to help my business. I might need to give full time employees a vacation, I might have more summer business and need seasonal increases in employees. I would not hire summer help to give them an allowance. I have my own kids for that!</p></li>
<li><p>The candidates that get beyond the initial interview stage have some things in common. They are interested in my business. They present themselves well -- with resume, clean, neat, well groomed and some concept about what they want to do in the shop for the summer. If you are part of a horde of kids trolling around store to store looking like street bums -- I have no openings. </p></li>
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<p>3.Do not come in to apply for a job with a friend or a parent. Whose job is it anyway? I am totally not interested in hiring a pair of teens who want to work together. They will usually do less than half the work (together) of one single motivated employee. (Once you are hired, I like to meet your parents. We hopefully have the same goal -- to develop a productive young adult.)</p>
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<li><p>What kind of dollars will you the employee generate for my investment in you? My rule of thumb is that payroll should be 15% of sales. That means that you need to generate 7x your hourly rate. Or ... more kindly ... for every $100 in payroll in a day, the store has to do $700. CAn you earn your keep? (My payroll numbers are high compared to many places -- but my shop is labor and service intensive. For larger, chain stores, the payroll budget is more like 7% or less of sales.)</p></li>
<li><p>Be prepared to commit to a schedule. As the summer help, yes, you'll have to work weekends. Yes, you'll have to get up with the robins. And you might have to forego that summer concert on the beach 100 miles away that would require two days off. The payoff ... is the paycheck. </p></li>
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<p>4a. If you have a specific dollar amount you need to earn over the summer -- quite often the solution is to work the hours you are scheduled (and volunteer to be available for extra hours) rather than to look for a higher rate of pay.</p>
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<li>What am I offering you besides a paycheck? I think this is really important for a high school or college kid. In my business you'll get experience way beyond ringing the register or sweeping the floor. I'll teach you merchandising, inventory control, salesmanship, customer service, and more. The good ones will get leadership and training skills. Some kids will get exposure to marketing and advertising. Some will get exposure to accounting. Some will learn some tricky parts of animal care and nursing. That'll all depend on how hard you work, how quickly you learn, and what your interests are. I'm probably not going to teach the accounting major how to handfeed tiny chicks!</li>
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<p>I know that this summer job is not what you want to do for the rest of your life. But -- it's experience. It's paid employment. I'm happy to help you launch your working life. I would like nothing better than to be able to say to your next prospective employer, "She was one of the best I have ever had and I wish she'd be back this year. I am sure she will do a good job for you and I can recommend her without reservation".</p>
<p>(I have one young woman who worked here her junior and senior years in high school. She's now a junior in college. She comes back for holidays and for several weeks in the summer. Her career-related summer job is working at a day camp, but she will work for me from 5/15 to 6/15. I am thrilled to have her. She received the above recommendation when the camp hired her two summers ago.)</p>
<p>Awesome post! Clean, succint, honest and helpful. This should be stickied or something like that.</p>
<p>if anyone can find a decent internship in the philadelphia area (or in the city) in mostly any area I would appreciate it. pm me doesnt even have to pay</p>
<p>When I was a hs senior I worked scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins. I was having fun and making money besides. One day my boss asked me if I'd like to train decorating cakes. I was paid another $1.50 an hour, and I had to be at the store at 5:30 am. But it was worth it. I still make ice cream cakes and pies for family & friends, and I had a blast that summer. </p>
<p>And I totally agree with cnp55, do NOT go job hunting with friends. It looks pathetic.</p>
<p>Try places like Corner Bakery, Panera & Starbucks...they do hire hs students.</p>
<p>Also review craigslist.org for the city/town in your area for excellent interniships and other "off the beaten path" jobs.</p>