Finding and Getting a Job While in High School: Step-by-step

Overview of the Job Hunt

  • Pros and Cons of Working While in High School
  • Job Descriptions
  • Legal Stuff: Limitations and Opportunities for High School Students

Which Job? Picking the Position You Want to Apply For

Getting-Started-with-the-Job-Hunt-WorksheetDownload

Filling out an application

Employment-Job-ApplicationDownload

Resume Writing

Resume WorksheetDownload

Cover Email

Cover Letter worksheetDownload

Branding Yourself: The Elevator Speech

Branding Yourself WorksheetDownload

Interviewing and Being Interviewed

  • What can interviewers ask?
  • What should you say?
  • What questions should a high school student expect?
employability-skills-framework-interview-guideDownload

Mock interviews

It’s the things you DON’T say that matter

  • Body Language
  • First Impressions
  • Dress to Impress
Mock interview score sheetDownload

Thank-you email

Professionalism

  • Diversity
  • Criticism
  • Fake it till you make it

Putting it all together: Taking what you’ve learned into the “real” world