Comments on: Weekly Roundup – Summer Job Edition http://frugaldad.com/2010/06/17/weekly-roundup-summer-job-edition/ Money Saving Insights: Coupons, Smart Spending and Promotional Codes Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:38:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: valletta http://frugaldad.com/2010/06/17/weekly-roundup-summer-job-edition/#comment-42633 valletta Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:35:12 +0000 http://frugaldad.com/?p=5631#comment-42633 As a former business owner and a current high tech manager I have one word of advice to parents: Go ahead and network to help your kid to find a job BUT make sure your teenage child is the one who asks for the job, via email or in person. CRITICAL. It's very important to most hiring managers that the kid has independent skills. I can't tell you how perfectly this one screening technique has worked to find good workers (juvenile or otherwise) :) As a former business owner and a current high tech manager I have one word of advice to parents:
Go ahead and network to help your kid to find a job BUT make sure your teenage child is the one who asks for the job, via email or in person. CRITICAL.
It’s very important to most hiring managers that the kid has independent skills.
I can’t tell you how perfectly this one screening technique has worked to find good workers (juvenile or otherwise) :)

]]> By: Money Smarts http://frugaldad.com/2010/06/17/weekly-roundup-summer-job-edition/#comment-42626 Money Smarts Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:46:14 +0000 http://frugaldad.com/?p=5631#comment-42626 I agree, my wife is a better negotiator than I am - she doesn't care what the sales guys think - she just speaks her mind. I wish I had opened a Roth IRA after my first job too - instead of blowing all my money on all sorts of electronic gadgets (which back in those days were things like cassette decks - oooh high tech!). Sigh - what could have been. I agree, my wife is a better negotiator than I am – she doesn’t care what the sales guys think – she just speaks her mind.

I wish I had opened a Roth IRA after my first job too – instead of blowing all my money on all sorts of electronic gadgets (which back in those days were things like cassette decks – oooh high tech!). Sigh – what could have been.

]]> By: jim http://frugaldad.com/2010/06/17/weekly-roundup-summer-job-edition/#comment-42615 jim Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:01:50 +0000 http://frugaldad.com/?p=5631#comment-42615 In our house, my wife is the boss. :) In our house, my wife is the boss. :)

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