Jobs for 15 year olds

What kind of jobs for 15 year olds teenagers and where to apply one? This hub is written for 15 year old teenagers who are looking for a job especially during the summer. If you are teenagers and have been working in some places when you were 15 year old, please suggest work places which hire 15 year old and share your tips so that you can help other teenagers who are 15 year old and are looking for a job.

Even though it is almost the same with the kinds of jobs for 14 year old teenagers can get, there are some places which hire above 14 year old. Before that, let us brainstorm for a while some general jobs for 15 year olds which can get. 15 year old teenagers are allowed to work as babysitter, lawn mower, usher, guest service, junior camp leader, referee, grocery bagger, paper router, and pet sitter.

While a 15 year old teenagers are not allowed to work in a factory, they can take jobs which a 14 year old cannot do such as lawn mower. However, please be mindful that each state has different labor law and you still need to refer to your state law. This hub is only showing you a general overview about jobs for 15 year old.

In some places, a 15 year olds teenagers can win a job interview from a 16 year old teenager. This might happen because of the different talents, skill and certificates. When applying for a job a talent seems to play the big role during interview season. If you are not talented in taking care with kids, it would be inappropriate if you are applying for a babysitter job.

Skill is not the same with talent. Skill is the result of a routine practice within a time basis and can acquired by anyone, with different time achievement and performance. If you are applying for a camp leader, people will ask you whether you have got background experience as a leader or not previously.

Certificate is a a proof from a third party which acknowledge your skill in certain field major. It is important to collect all your certificates to be part of your portfolio because you will be more trusted for all your saying - there are lots of teenager who are giving false background experience in order to impress the job recruitment staff and actually it is all unnecessary.

Now here are some work places which might hire 15 year old teenager, I said "might" because each place will need to refer to local state labor law so there are some work places which cannot hire 15 year old teenagers in some states while in other states they do hire.

• Restaurant, any kinds of restaurants especially fast food restaurants or ice cream outlets
• Grocery or supermarket, either big or small
• Medias, some news media need young journalist to write in their teen section, also teens magazine
• Amusement park
  
• Summer camp, to be working as camp leader
  
• Resorts, to be working as a guest service
  
• Golf course, to be working as a caddy
• Cinemas, to be working as ushers
• Clothes store, to be working as sales assistant

Of course the above list is not yet complete and there would be more places as there is any suggestion from other teenagers. However, this short guide just want to show you that there are quite many part time jobs for 15 year olds and you need to take any opportunity to be added into your job experience list after you graduate.

This hub is originally written by Michael West, a freelance writer with expertise in teen help resources. You are free to reprint this article as long as all the links remain intact.