Where would employ a 17 year old?

Sean_Darmady

I am a 17 year old who has just finished the Leaving Certificiate. I have been looking for a job but all nearly require previous experience. Does anybody know where a 17 year old would be employed preferably in the Meath/Blanchardstown area?

BOHtox

I was in Penney's a few years back during college and they always hired people your age with no experience. Boots and Dunnes did too to a lesser extent. Then I'd also try your local spar/SuperValu/centra etc and give them a bash. Penney's was a much nicer place to work i found though

tomwaits48

Try the local pubs

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

BOHtox wrote: »

I was in Penney's a few years back during college and they always hired people your age with no experience. Boots and Dunnes did too to a lesser extent. Thanks I'd also try your local spar/SuperValu/centra etc and give them a bash. Penney's was a much nicer place to work i found though

Got my first job in Penney's at 16 and worked there part time and then full time over the course of a couple of years. Found it a great place to work, they hired loads of people of that age and still do from what I see anytime I'm in there.

Mint Sauce

What kinda work? Summer work till you go to College? Full time?

I dont know the area, but if summer work, maybe drop your CV into all the stores in Blanchardstown SC.

_Brian

My 15yo works in the local leisure centre, been working tuere for 6 months, recently she got a qualification to teach swimming so she now teaches swim lessons too.

optogirl

Supermarket, Clothes shop, Soft Play Kids Centres, Pubs

holepunch

My son is also 17 and is struggling to get a job, he's only going into 6th year though he was looking for a summer job. The local newsagent wouldnt even give him a job becasue he's not old enough to serve tobacco or alcohol, pubs wont take himn on either cause he's under 18 and their busiest times in late in the evening and youths that age can only work up until a certain time....feel bad for him:'(

Victor

Use any contacts that you have. Do you or friends / family members know any business owners or managers? Ask your friends / family members if they know any business owners or managers / any jobs going.

Do any of your friends have jobs. Ask them if their employer is taking on new people.

Cut the neighbours' grass / hedges or paint their walls for the summer.

Supercell

McDonald's, worked there in my youth and had great fun.

ziedth

In my experience people tend to avoid under 18's these days as there is so much red tape surrounding break entitlements and working hours/days. I ran shops for years and avoided them at all cost unless it was something like two/three 4 hours shifts a week.

I think best hope you would have is to keep calling into shops from September as that is when most retailers start to look for seasonal temps.

anywhere that would have a decent sized team and would get busier for Christmas. It will get them experience looking for the next job.

My big advice is to not just drop in a CV as these inevitably get thrown into a pile. get them to "Suit up" or look as professional as possible (Don't just float in with a wad of CV's in a hoody, make it look like he/she has speciallypicked that store) and go in and ask for a hiring manager. Confidence is key here, Explain handing the CV that he/she is looking for experience and trot out the usual lines of being a hard worker, eager to learn, gets on well with people etc.

Good luck to them.

kieran.

Try a factory some take in lots of students to cover holidays.

In today's society, a 17-year-old will struggle to get a job somewhere highly regulated so its jobs like laboring for a dodgy builder, selling ice cream , take away, small businesses babysitting collecting glasses after a wedding in a hotel and the like.

Although this summer I know a fair few 16 and 17 years old's who got jobs.

Gwen Cooper

Sean_Darmady wrote: »

I am a 17 year old who has just finished the Leaving Certificiate. I have been looking for a job but all nearly require previous experience. Does anybody know where a 17 year old would be employed preferably in the Meath/Blanchardstown area?

There's a call centre in Maynooth - Abtran. I think they have another branch somewhere in Dublin city as well. Not sure if they're hiring at the moment but try to look it up, you don't need to have much experience there.