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How to gain experience for a job interview as a college student who never had a job before.

So you are a high school or college student who has never had a job before thus can’t put on your resume anything. And to top it up most jobs are requesting you have some experience before being hired. Well here are 3 ways to gain said experience for your resume.

The first and easiest way to put experience on your job resume is to  volunteer at places. Like for instance if you have $20 you can get yourself a tax preparer certification then volunteer for at least 6 months with the IRS. They will train you and if you are looking for a job you can put that on your resume. This is one of the easiest ways to add experience on your resume as a high school or college student. Best part is during tax season in December you can apply at places like hr block and Jackson Hewitt to become a tax preparer and get paid. So find little gems like these around you by researching it or asking around

The second way to gain experience for your resume is by starting a website blog. Yes you heard me correctly. Start a paid for website blog on WordPress or any of the other websites hosting sites and start your journey. Give yourself about 6 months to not only run it but run it well. That means everyday posting on there at least once. Then grow your following over time. This shows businesses that you  know how to manage your time and the best part is you can tell them all about SEO and what not. So yeah start a website blog and use it on your resume. If you want to shine even more start a red bubble account or an Amazon affiliate account and sell. You can use this as your experience in sales. Businesses love to see that you have tried to sell something at least so yeah. So you can use that as part of your resume.

The third way to gain experience for your resume is to ask people in your churches or family friends to hire you at their place of business or businesses for a bit so you can add them to your resume. Ask them to hire you at the lowest pay for 6 months so you can gain experience and use it on your resume. Don’t have any experience in retail and to be hired you need some experience? Well ask your church members or a family member to hire you for 6 months at minimum wage to gain that experience. You ask for minimum wage level because you are basically an extra and they are just doing you a favor. So ask for minimum wage and work with them for at least 6 months. After that you can use them as a reference on your resume.

These are the top 3 ways to get experience for your resume as a high school or college student who has no experience for your resume.

Thanks for reading and have a great day.

Salome Jackie D Peah

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