HELP THE WORLDPORT RAMP UP FOR SUMMER Tell your friends and family about Delta’s Summer Airport Customer Service program. We are looking for people who want to work full-time during the summer months only. We need people who are committed to providing exceptional front-line service – assisting customers at check-in and baggage handling. Employees will [...]

Forbes.com has a neat story about Lani Lazzari, founder of Simple Sugars, an all-natural body care company she runs out of her parents’ basement in Pittsburgh, Pa. It’s inspiring and provides some lessons that we can all learn.

Slightly older job seekers should check out WorkNOLA.com – Jobs for New Orleans, A collaboration of many local partners and businesses, WorkNOLA.com offers those looking to move to New Orleans, and those already there, a way to explore and apply for local job openings. New Orleans is a great place to do well by doing [...]

Our friend Adrienne Graham is an extraordinary talented Headhunter, Recruiter, Networker who specializes in high level diversity talent on a global scale – and is also passionate about teenage employment. We asked her about her first jobs and she had plenty of advice to share. MFP: What was your first job as a teenager? I [...]

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 [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts recently! I know that we’ve been bad about updating the blog, but I promise we’re going to be better from now on. We’re currently switching our blogging platform, and as soon as we’re done moving our old blog posts over – we’ll start writing again. In the meantime, check [...]

I was recently named one of the The Top 101 Emerging Connectors in Philadelphia by Leadership Philadelphia. Pretty neat huh? All that work Ive been doing to find jobs to post on this site has led me to meet a lot of neat people. Thanks!

Michael Grynbaum wrote an article in todays Times that said, “Retail Sales Weakest in 5 Months.” The article continued, “Wednesday’s retail sales report was the latest sign of weak spending habits in July. In privately tracked sales figures released last week, many name-brand department stores and clothing outlets reported significant declines in sales at stores [...]

Woo-hoo Philly Startup Leaders! This is a great group started by Blake Janelle and a few of us other young local entrepreneurs who are interested in helping each other out, and creating a better community for tech companies and start ups, like MyFirstPaycheck | Jobs for Teens here in Philadelphia. I’ve been working with Blake [...]

Alan Mutter, a Media-technology consultant, wrote about MyFirstPaycheck | Jobs for Teens in his recent white paper about the newspaper industry. He used MyFirstPaycheck | Jobs for Teens as an example of how the help wanted market is developing to meet niches. This is not good for newspapers, but very good for us. I’d like [...]