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Saeku
Sep 22, 2010

Pekinduck posted:

The trick to getting a minimum wage job is to show up at independent restaurants and ask if they need someone. Just dress presentably, show up during a non busy time and ask if they need dishwashers/kitchen help. If you get a good place you can actually make pretty good money if you move up to being a waiter. Its been a while since Ive had to get a job like that but I doubt anythings changed. Good luck.

This is how my business hires and how most of my friends got hired. Keep an eye out for hiring signs, but try small business that don't have hiring signs too. This also works for retail.

As somebody who's been on the other end of the job ad, you don't have great odds applying to online postings that don't have extraneous bullshit filters designed to cut down on the number of applicants. Any open ad (eg. Craigslist) for a job with no special qualifications required will get hundreds of resumes. You may be somebody employers would be delighted to have working for them, but you're probably not the best out of hundreds.

Meanwhile, a lot of small businesses just skip posting online because you get enough good applicants from walk-ins and word of mouth, and you don't need to deal with interacting with hundreds of Craigslist users.

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