Help Your Teen Find a Job

What are some of the best ways to help your teen find a job? What are some tips for applications, resumes, and interviews? How can employees succeed and advance in their job or career?

Explore the Job Market
Before your teen sends out his resume, encourage him to take a look at salary information, research careers, careers in your region of Minnesota and other important information.

Beginning the job search
Your first impulse in helping your teen begin a job search may be to search online or a newspaper's want ads for job openings. In reality, job hunting takes time. Help your teen develop a job search plan to make the search more effective.

Develop your Resume
There is no one right way to create a resume, but there are a few things not to do. Help your teen to develop a resume, cover letter and portfolio that will get employers' attention.

Applying for jobs
Your teen has identified job openings of interest and is ready to apply. How can you best help your teen apply for these jobs?

Interviewing for jobs
Interviews are an important step of a job search. Family members can definitely help a teen prepare for an interview by encouraging the teen to learn more about the company, helping him or her practice answering likely questions, developing questions for the potential employer, and other steps.

Common Interview Questions
You teen might have practiced the best way to answer common interview questions, but does he also know how to handle tough questions and potentially illegal questions?

Employee Benefits
Money isn't everything. When it comes to employee benefits packages, salary is only part of the compensation that employees will receive.

Succeeding in the Work Place
Getting hired is only half the battle. Once your teen is on the job, does he know how to behave professionally and ways to increase his chances of getting promoted?