<p>When our younger son first started looking right after football season ended, he was turned down a lot of places and specifically told in one place they wanted a girl for a cashier job at a dry cleaners. However, he eventually found something in a sub shop. It was a matter of persistance, good timing, and luck. He wasn’t able to find a job last summer after unexpectedly not being invited back to his life guard job. He used the same approach as JS’s son, filling out one application a week until summer was over. We insisted that he begin looking this time in December as soon as his sports schedule allowed and made sure his efforts were a little more serious this time. </p>
<p>Our older son found a job last September in a restaurant making sandwiches. He was told he was hired because of his prior restaurant experience in high school. I will add that both have burn marks on the inside of their arms from touching the oven and both have cut themselves with sharp knives. However, they love their jobs. The older one gets lots of hours (put in a 10-hour shift on Easter) and works 5-6 days a week. The younger one is not getting enough hours (average 2 days a week), but I’m hoping the hours will increase once school is out.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, my post was regarding listing on craigslist to be a private tutor which had been mentioned in an earlier post. Understood that if you are dealing with a business of course craigslist is fine.</p>
<p>Mem & Epiph, I realised in reading Memake’s post that yes, in LTS’ postings I had formed a mental picture of a male posting, I have no idea why!</p>
<p>Son went to the career fair today. He spoke with ten companies and most showed interest. Unfortunately he already has a summer internship that he’s accepted so he was asking about internship work for next fall which they weren’t prepared for. The list of companies was impressive; there were three that I would have been pretty happy with if he interned there. His REU should look good on the resume’ too. He also told me that the other majors (it was a science and engineering career fair) were pretty busy too.</p>
<p>Neighbor boy( graduating from HS) applied for a job at local Target on Monday. Was interviewed and hired on Tuesday. 30 hrs per week for summer. Not bad!</p>
<p>I was at the local Taco Bell yesterday and they were hiring.</p>
<p>We went grocery shopping this evening. Huge lines at the checkout. I think that they will be hiring. This grocery store does a great job at hiring high-school kids. My guess is that you just need a reference from someone already working there.</p>
<p>My niece had two internship offers from Harvard and doesn’t go to HYPSM - I guess they must have lots of jobs if they have to go outside their own school to get interns.</p>
<p>In a pinch garland’s idea regarding canvasing is good. D was said she had gotten contacted (went through university placement) and said they seemed to have a lot of need. However, it is not what she is doing. She was having a very tough time, but finally ended up with at Lab job at a U. However, she had worked in a different lab at the U before, so in the end she got some help. Part of the problem is fighting through the system to get on the radar screen that you have the skills needed. If you do you often get multiple offers. When it rains it pour kind of thing, since they are need of good but qualified people. This is a bad year as people who would avoid such jobs are doing anything to make a buck.</p>
<p>“I am wondering if the school name has any thing to do with landing an intern or summer job. Are there any HYPSM students having problems?”</p>
<p>Dad II, the person who is doing the hiring at Jamba Juice or Starbucks or Target or the local pool or park district either has a job to offer or doesn’t; whether an applicant says she is attending Stanford or Local Community College during the year isn’t going to make a bit of a difference. </p>
<p>I know this is difficult given your cultural background, but really, the average person really isn’t walking around thinking about or waiting to be impressed by HYPSM. It’s irrelevant to those types of summer jobs. </p>
<p>As for other jobs, such as internships … Again, either the jobs are there, or they’re not. When I was in college (a high unemployment time), I benefited from a summer internship that I obtained through a Northwestern contact, but the internship position had to be there in the first place.</p>
<p>Bennie, doesn’t your daughter have at least a few weeks after school ends and camp begins? My daughter has almost two months free until her camp job starts. She intends to travel, relax, hang out, read, play video games, etc. I think two months is long enough for that!</p>
<p>D had two job offers and with reluctance, is turning down one. She will be a day camp counselor for 6 weeks, leaving 4 weeks for travel and down time. This is great experience and I believe it does look solid on a resume. It also gets your teenager outside, active, swimming, etc., and allows them some leadership and responsibility. D just finished her Red Cross certifications as well, so I am pleased at this as a summer job.<br>
A lot of camps hire in Feb., though, so I do not know how many openings they have. Check the web and the YMCA.</p>
<p>My 17 year old has a standing job at the zoo, started on in November on weekends for their winter activities, break from Jan 1- end of school and then as many hours as she can stand all summer and into fall with a few weekends after school starts. As long as they like you and you like them, kids come back on breaks and summers all through HS and college until they graduate both.</p>
<p>Most temp/seasonal jobs are in catering and food service but she has a sweet gift shop job that involves air conditioning (in summer) and heat (in winter), merchandising, and making fudge at the snack counter (yummm).</p>
<p>Good luck with the job search, we felt fortunate that she got the second job she applied for. First one was at Steve and Barry’s but they went bankrupt a month later so it was all good in the end.</p>
<p>We have lots of “Ivy” kids in our neighborhood and not all have landed internships. Those with engineering, tech, science degrees look to be doing better. Liberal arts, business, economics, not so good. Some are going back to their camp counselor jobs.<br>
So, no I don’t think it’s the name. Programs have been eliminated or cut back around here. A lot less slots. So those with stellar backgrounds, good interviewing skills and family connections are finding some success. The name may give an edge - but I’m not sure how much.</p>
<p>Lurkness - no unfortunately because of snow days, there is only 1 weekend between when school ends and camp starts. On the other end of the summer there are 1.5 weeks between camp and school but that is filled up with mandatory practices for field hockey. (she’s not graduating, but will be a rising junior).</p>
<p>I think part of my problem with the schedule is that it doesn’t leave any time for a family vacation or any down time for her. She’s a 3 sport varsity athlete, high honor roll, high amount of community service kind of kid so I really think jumping right into a full time job is too much. Plus she’ll be playing AAU softball in the summer too.</p>
<p>I just got a resume of a student at Columbia MS Operations Research, willing to work for free. </p>
<p>For all the parents out there - try to talk to your HR or manager to see if you could have a few interns this summer. I was able to do it by putting a business case together. In my case, I had work that need to get done, had the budget, but couldn’t hire permanent employees. I was able to show my manager the savings we would have by using lower paying interns to the work.</p>
<p>D just found out today that she did not get the summer job on campus that she had applied for (and was counting on). Unfortunately, now she is even more behind the eight-ball as she had a very late spring break and didn’t apply anywhere while she was home. In retrospect, I wish we had suggested that she at least put in a few applications with past employers “just in case”, but she thought that because her break was so late, that it would have been a waste of time as most college kids were home 3-4 weeks before she was. So now, she is 200 miles away, can’t come home until mid-May, and the chances of finding something now is even bleaker with this bad economy. I told her that she has to start thinking of a plan B - volunteer work, babysitting, etc. as it will be a very long summer without anything to do.</p>