Summer Jobs Become In Short Supply For Teens

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By Jennifer McClelland

With joblessness at the elevated it is at present at, hanging over 9%, it seems like all those teens who have just ended the school year are having a pretty hard time landing jobs.

Because there are so many adults at this time on the lookout for work, many are accepting anything they are able to find, as well as those positions typically reserved for out of school teens.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics had a recent survey that tracked a deterioration in the amount of youth that are participating in the job marketplace this year in opposition to last year; its fallen 3 percent.

So with the lack of jobs, what are teens doing? Well, it looks like they're forgoing the paying jobs to volunteer and do other non-paying jobs all the way through the summer, if for nothing else, solely to dodge of the home for a a small number of hours per day.

Some teens are even becoming entrepreneurs in their own right. Some have taken advantage of the season and started forming their own businesses for the summer, like grass maintenance or pool cleaning. The best part of these teens starting these jobs on their own is that they can make use of their friends and typically make more than minimum wage when there is work.

Right now the jobless rate for 16 to 19 year old range is 21.5%, that's up from 15.4% in 2008. When you look at those numbers, you need to keep in mind that just includes the teens that are truly vigorously in search of employment, not those which aren't.

I know that it is still hard to locate work. Living in a college town, there are always college students looking for work, add on top of that out of school teenagers, then the fact that none of the businesses do the same quantity of business through the summer as they do throughout a semester and it's on the whole a recipe for high joblessness. There are a few restaurants looking for employees, but it's all just part time work and the hours are inadequate at best.

Subsequently, there are simply a lot of adults that have families to provide for that are in search of work at the identical locations. If I were a boss at one of the locations where teens frequently go to come across work, then I would be much more likely to employ the man or woman who needs to feed their family before I hired a 16 year old who just needs to put some minutes on their pay-as-you-go phone.

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