Jobs For 16 Year Olds

It’s already July now and its crunch-time for anyone still looking for jobs for 16 year olds. Keep looking if you still need a job and review what you are doing in job interviews and outside of interviews to see if you can make any improvements.

One thing 16 year olds don’t think about is what kinds of things they put on the Internet. I am specifically talking about Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and any other place like that where you might have information about yourself. Those types of social websites are fun, but if an employer can find information about you there, you need to be very careful about what you put online.

You might have read or heard stories in the news about people getting fired for something they put on their Facebook page. You see, employers do poke around to see what they can find online about their employees. They also might look to see what they can find out about you BEFORE they even hire you!

If you have a MySpace or Facebook page that you would not want an employer or an adult to see, you should consider taking it down or improving it so that it will not be embarrassing. Store managers that are in charge of hiring teenagers in 2010 have a lot of candidates to choose from and you don’t want to take yourself out of the running for a job just because you have things on the Internet that will discredit you.

You need to also think about where else you might have left a trail online that will lead back to you in some way. Over time, it is amazing how much content some people put online. They have blogs, contribute to forums, and do all the social media things that can lead back to them. All a crafty employer has to do is become good at nosing around and he or she may find out all sorts of things about you that you don’t want them to know. So, be careful what you put online and start to clean up what you can so that you will have a better chance of getting that job you want.