How and when did you get your first job?

Nealmason1986

I am currently in my 3rd year at UCLAN. My advise if you want a good job would be to look at jobs within the university. I am a student ambassador and my job involves giving campus tours and working on school visits. Its extremely well paid and looks amazing on your CV. The good thing about the job is that i can pick and choose my hours. This is the same with alot of jobs for the uni and i know everywhere has student ambassadors.

I worked at NEXT while in my second year and i really struggles giving up my weekends. Didnt give me enough time for uni work or my mates so i struggled.


Anyway hope this helps.

Catseyez

I got my first job just as I was approaching 15. It was in our local hair salon, my Mum had been in for an appointment and was told they needed a Saturday girl. I took a walk down there and told them I wanted the job!

When I was 16, I got a job at Sainsbury's...I walked in and asked for an application form.

If I was 17 again and still at school, I think I'd be applying for a job in a shop like Accessorize!

liney

Visit every supermarket and burger flipping establishment you can find. When you look for a proper job after leaving education the fact you had a part time job will far outway where your job actually was.

When i was 14 i worked in a corner shop mosts nights from 5.30pm - 10pm, yes i know its not legal, then New Look on a Saturday when i was 16. I then went to an agency to get my first proper job in a well know bank when i was 16 doing data quality (photocopying and filing) while they merged with another building society.

11 years later I work 22 hours a week while studying with OU.

lethal_2

Dont you need to be 18 to get in with most employmrny agencies? because when I have tried in the past (I am currently 16 and 17 next month) they have said that I am too young.


ALso, a lot have people said they were 'temping' at offices, which I dont know how to get? Do you just ring up offices or something?

sp3ndaholic

Push, push, push.

I got my first job at 16 after my GCSE's and was working p/t while doing A-levels. I literally went into like every shop within a 10mile radius and asked for the manager (v. important - trust, no matter how nice the staff are the CV will end up lost or in the bin) and then thrust my CV upon them.

I did a few interview including the ledge WHSmiths assessment centre thing before getting a job @ Next, bin there 4yrs now.

DO NOT GIVE UP!!!

hope that helps.

oh and go to a connexions centre or something and get them to photocopy your CV for you, they did me like 200 copies.

Savvy_Sue

lethal wrote: »

Dont you need to be 18 to get in with most employmrny agencies? because when I have tried in the past (I am currently 16 and 17 next month) they have said that I am too young.

ALso, a lot have people said they were 'temping' at offices, which I dont know how to get? Do you just ring up offices or something?

I am sure I was temping through employment agencies before I was 18, but it is a long time ago, and I know times have changed ...

If there is a large employer near you - university, hospital, local council, government offices, insurance company, head office of national company, you get the picture - then it may be worth phoning and asking for their Personnel / Human Resources office. Ask them if they use temps, and if so where they get them from. I believe that our local uni uses one particular agency, but I think the council has its own agency. But some companies will employ direct: when I worked for a Housing Associatin we would use an agency if we couldn't find a temp through the grapevine!

reehsetin

went up and down all the local high streets handing out CV's, WHSmith rang back, got the job, at 16 no (real experience just web stuff)experience
second job, again handing out CV's down oxford street and getting the numbers for their employment centres and ringing up, arranged a phone interview, then a face to face interview and had the job

kateochang

My first job was in Events and Sponsorship. One of the best job I had but it was tiring too because I was always on the rush. Now I'm doing Brand Management, so far it seems well and less rush. Everything is well structured here

How I got my first job? I was a scholar back then, so once I graduated, my sponsor absorbed me to work with them. It's been 1 1/2 years now.

But still, I do send resumes and CVs to companies as I was looking out for other opportunities too. My advice is just send your copies to the companies you are targeting at and don't wait when they advertise only because by then, thousands of resumes will be at their desk! So just send out your resumes at any time to the companies and who knows, if it is your luck, they will call you

I wish you all the best!

waspie72

I started off on a holiday job from school - they needed somebody to collect visa;s from embassies, then turned into an office job following year, eventually become full time after studies and still there. Guess all those days getting to an embassy for 6am finally paid off - even if they did open at 10am!