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Teen Job Options: Starting a Business

I wrote this column about stating a business for About.com. If you are still looking for something to do this summer, think about starting a business. It's a great way to stay busy, earn money, and learn something. And hey,...

Summer job shortage squeezing retailers

Bloomberg has a great story about the summer job shortage hurting retailers. Lauren Coleman-Lochner and Heather Burke write, "The financial pressures of adults are finally catching up with American teenagers. Since summer jobs dried up, gasoline prices topped $4 a...

Teen Jobs from an HR Executive

I stumbled across a very good article written by Marlene Prost for The Human Resource Executive Online. She writes, "Organizations may end up hurting themselves in the long run if the slumping teen job market -- with the exception of...

What Teens Want!

Who knows! But I'm speaking at a conference with the same title about how to reach teens online with Michael Berkley, CEO, SplashCast Media Kate Connally, Vice President, AddictingGames Geoff Cook, CEO, MyYearbook.com Austin Lavin, Co-Founder and CEO, Myfirstpaycheck.com Brian...

Cool Jobs

Sandy Banks wrote a column in the LATimes about her daughter's job search. Her daughter is having a hard time finding a job, but Sandy thinks that one of the reasons is that her daughter's expectations are too high. But...
 

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CEO and Co-Founder of myfirstpaycheck.com, a job-posting site for young adults. Along with job and volunteer opportunities, Myfirstpaycheck.com provides advice and resources to help young people have a more successful job application process. Myfirstpaycheck.com is also a valuable resource for companies searching for an online outlet to hire temporary, seasonal and part-time employees.
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myfirstpaycheck.com - best place for teens to find summer jobs

Myfirstpaycheck.com - summer jobs is continuing to grow into the #1 job site for teens. We are still working on building our own nationwide job-board but partnered with SimplyHired to meet the current demand with our current job board. We have also posted some good job seeking tips… Continue

Posted on May 31st, 2008 at 2:52pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Summer Jobs

This is my first post on the Secrets of the Job Hunt. I'm not sure what my audience is here, but I wanted to talk about summer jobs. We've all had them, but over the last few years we've been hearing that less and less teens are going into the workplace. Why do you think this happens? There are probably a lot of reasons, but one big reasons is that employers aren't making the effort to sell themselves to teenagers. How'd you find your first job? Through a friend? a parent? randomly? It's basi… Continue

Posted on March 31st, 2008 at 10:11am — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 12:42pm on April 24th, 2008, Lucilla Feliciano said…
I have put information about your site on my FB page to all of my ex students. Good interview on Fox.
At 7:51am on April 16th, 2008, Gergana Atanasowa said…
Hi mi name is Gergana and I`d like to took with you about jobhunting-You were going to have talked for hunting force
At 1:55pm on March 31st, 2008, Jun Loayza said…
Hi Austin,

Great to get connected. I look forward to reading some good stuff posted by you.
 
 

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