How teen job seekers can separate themselves

Here are my tips for how fall teen job seekers can separate themselves to have a better chance at getting a job:

1. Write a great cover letter stating how you will help the company you want to work for. Understand that applying to a job is a sales process and you need to better sell why you can offer more to an employer than others can. Explain how you will be a valuable asset to the company.

2. Prove how good you are by including 1-2 pages of testimonials from previous employers and high school teachers and/or college professors saying how great you are and why you would make a great employee.

3. Offer to work for 1-2 weeks for free to prove how good you are. If the company is not blown away by your abilities, then they do not have to hire you and they are out no money. That shows you are confident and willing to take a risk on yourself instead of the company taking a risk on you.

4. READ BUSINESS BOOKS! The fastest way to advance your career is to become a business expert and understand operations, sales, marketing, finance, etc. Businesses want smart people who are good at solving business problems and who understand how to make a company more successful. By reading business books, you immediately make yourself more knowledgeable and more valuable than other people competing for a job or a promotion. My biggest key to success in getting jobs and success in business is forcing myself to read 10 pages a day every single day from a business book (about 1-2 books per month). In a year that equals 3,650 pages of business knowledge. Do that for 2 years and you have basically given yourself an MBA in your spare time and for only a few hundred bucks in books. Nothing will raise your business IQ and success in life more than reading business books. Books = success.

Peter Geisheker, CEO
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