Your First Step

Your first step should be to go online to give yourself the best chance of getting a job. If you are seventeen, you should develop a resume even if you don’t have much work experience. Include all the jobs you have had as well as awards you have won and any other good things you do. You will need a resume in most cases when looking for a job so you need to start one now. Additionally, you should use the three free websites listed below to expand your job search and make sure you have all your bases covered. Many employers now get all their employees online and so you need to be actively searching at these three job search sites:

SnagAJob.com – 100% free to sign up and they specialize in part time and hourly jobs. These are often exactly what a 17 year old is looking for.

Monster.com – 100% free to sign up and they have one of the biggest online job databases.

Your Second Step

You have three options when looking for a job and taking advantage of all three of them is what you should do. First of all, if you have friends who work, find out from them whether they like their jobs and whether there are any job openings. You should get all the information they can give you and perhaps even have them put in a good word for you. Use any friends and contacts you have to the best of your ability to give yourself the best chance of landing a job.

Your Third Step

And finally, you should go around your neighborhood or town and scout out all the jobs you think you might want or places you might like to work. Stop in at all these places, introduce yourself, inquire about the possibility of working there, and find out as much as you can while making contact with these business owners. There will undoubtedly be a lot of rejection at this point but employers like teens who take the initiative to come in and introduce themselves. If you have a resume you should drop it off at this time. You never know, if you make a good impression, when a job opening does come up, the employer might just remember you and give you a call.

When you are seventeen years old, you are old enough to have done some noteworthy things and this makes it a great time to start putting together a resume. You can look online to see the format and how it is all supposed to fit together on a page. Even if you haven’t had any real job experience, it is a good idea to start putting a resume down on paper with some of your other accomplishments.

By the time you are 17, you will most likely have done a few things in life that are worthy of listing that may help you get a job. Things like academic awards, being a camp counselor, volunteer work, good grades and anything else that shows responsibility will be what you will want to list. Don’t worry about never having had a job if that’s the case. Everyone of us has had to get their first job and if you have some other things that show your character, it will help persuade that first potential employer to take a gamble on you.

Another reason that resumes for 17 year olds are a good idea is that at that age you are one year away from graduating high school and after that you will either be going on to college or having to job hunt in earnest. The more things you can list and the better looking you can make your resume, the more you will be prepared to face the real world. At 17 years of age, you are close to having to go out and fend for yourself and a resume will be needed so it is good practice to start putting one together.

It used to be that a resume would be typed up nicely on paper and then handed out to potential employers. Of course with computers and the Internet that has all changed. You will want to type your resume out on your computer and at some point you will also want to start submitting it online to different jobs sites. Everything is done online now days and getting your resume online is just one of the many steps you will need to learn how to do. Jobs for 17 year olds may be hard to find this summer and if you have a resume it might be a bit easier. Even if it doesn’t help you right now this year, getting started putting together your first resume is something that will benefit you in the future.

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