We met Randon on Twitter (are you following us yet?) and were immediately struck by his optimism, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurship. He is still in college but has started his own educational employment site for college students Job-U. We decided to ask him about his first job and he was kind enough to share some tips [...]

Our friend Jennie Withers, Author of ‘Hey Get a Job!‘ - an e-book of job tips for teens (available at heygetajob.com) sent us the following great guest post about how guidance counselors and teachers can help teenagers find jobs. What do you think? What other adults can you ask for help?
Counselors and teachers are [...]

We had such a good response from our last interview, we decided to do it again! Here are some great tips from our good friend Willy Franzen. Do you know somebody else we should interview? Please let us know!
MFP:  What was your first job as a teenager?
Willy: I ran a website about my favorite rapper. [...]

Julie Kantor, the Vice President of the The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship, blogged about the “Ten Suggested Concepts Every Youth Should Learn About Business Before Graduating High School,” and argues that business education is vital. I couldn’t agree more and I am happy to support the NFTE and their efforts. She says that they [...]

We’re big fans of Dan Schawbel, a leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. He is the author of “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 2009)” and has a lot of great advice for teenagers looking for summer and after-school jobs. Dan was generous enough to talk with us about [...]

Myfirstpaycheck.com was created to help young people get jobs. We have job advice for teens, interview tips, a resume builder, etc. But the one thing we can’t help you with is changing an employers mind. What if he just wont hire someone younger than 16? We often get questions from younger teens about what they [...]

Discussing the safety of girl scouts selling cookies online reminded me that we haven’t discussed the safety of kids and teens doing anything online recently - which couldn’t be important for myfirstpaycheck.com or families - so I wanted to pass on a few tips for parents from Craig Peters, whose company, CKP Creative advises consumer [...]

Kurt Soller asks in Newsweek, “by banning online sales, are the Girl Scouts failing our daughters?”  8-year-old Wild Freeborn became a Girl Scout earlier this year, and set out to sell 12,000 boxes of the organization’s cookies. As a smart and forward thinking kid she decided to use the internet to increase her sales.  With [...]

In this weak economy and tight job market, students have to start their summer job search earlier than ever. To help our peers, we’ve put together five tips to help make the job search a little easier.
1. BE BRAVE. Even in this economy, there are employers looking for the affordable, enthusiastic, and energetic help that [...]

Here in Philadelphia (like every where else) we’re faced with a tough economy and the city is forced to make some tough budget cuts.  One of the proposals is to close the swimming pools this summer.  I’m not going to argue that one facility is more important to the other, but Kia Gregory makes the [...]