By Renée Ward, Founder, Teens4Hire.org
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Retail jobs beat out fast-food and restaurant jobs as the
top choice among teens for employment, says Renee Ward, founder
and executive director of Teens4Hire.org, a national online
Career Center for employers and teens in the high school and
college age groups.
Teens4Hire.org received more than 6,000 responses to a poll
completed on its site of where teens would like
to work. The Top 10 categories are:
# 1. Retail (27%)
# 2. Fast-food and/or restaurant (20%)
# 3. Arts, Entertainment, Media (9%)
# 4. Sports and Recreation (6%)
# 5. Health Services (5%)
# 6. Customer Service/Call Center (4%)
# 7. Education, Training, Library (3%)
# 8. Computer software (3%)
# 9. Office, clerical (2%)
# 10. Accounting (1%)
Potential employers should make a note of this. According
to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey
data, a majority of employers indicate that paid work experience
and workplace mentoring, at 57 and 50 percent respectively,
are the most effective means of addressing the skills gap
issues within their industries.