PSA: tell your teen job/internship applicant to check their email

[Anonymous]

Yep good reminder. My high schooler has applied to internships/jobs and I’ve had to remind her to check her email daily. Emailing outside of teachers is rare for them. My kid even needed help crafting a message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised. Mine check theirs daily. Teachers email them.

Most kids have separate emails. A school email that cannot be used outside of the system, and a regular gmail that they hardly check. Plus a college account for junk mail.

[Anonymous]

They should also check email because that is how colleges send you notices. I work in admissions for a college and you’d be surprised at how some students do not check email and some have now missed their chance of being interviewed.

[Anonymous]

Agree. Unfortunately, I think a lot of schools do a terrible job with email. In high school my kid would have dozens of unread messages but then when I pressed them to show me they were right: it was all junk. Dozens upon dozens of poorly planned, incomplete communications. It did make more sense to just ignore until like the 20th email with all the details.

Onboarding at college was the same. So. many. emails., most of which contained no helpful information (they seemed to want to create a "vibe" of excitement, which missed the mark). Even now the college bookstore spams everyone, everyday of break, regardless of whether or no they had ordered books for the next yet.

[Anonymous]

I’m signed into my children’s email and I alert them if they haven’t replied to a message in a timely fashion. They get virtually no email so it’s just not on their radar and their school account doesn’t allow outside messages.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the others that teens really aren't emailers. My kids get messages from teachers generally in other ways (Google classroom, I guess?) so email isn't on their radar.

One of mine just applied for a summer job and this is a good reminder to me to prompt her to check her email. Even I forget to check my junk email and have missed some important messages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unpaid internships are things of the past. My nonprofit employer pays internships $40/hr for an 11 weeks program. Has no problems with finding candidates

Wow. That seems like a ridiculously high hourly rate for interns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unpaid internships are things of the past. My nonprofit employer pays internships $40/hr for an 11 weeks program. Has no problems with finding candidates

Wow. That seems like a ridiculously high hourly rate for interns.

That’s more than a 4th year teacher in APS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unpaid internships are things of the past. My nonprofit employer pays internships $40/hr for an 11 weeks program. Has no problems with finding candidates

Wow. That seems like a ridiculously high hourly rate for interns.

Maybe this is something like MITRE which is technically a non-profit but has massive budgets to spend on R&D research.

This isn’t the United Way or what comes to mind when you think of nonprofits.

Usually you need a parent to hook you up and they do hire TJ kids and the school has a relationship. They require kids to come in knowing how to do something (coding knowledge, know how to use engineering equipment, etc).

It’s still a stupid post meant for that parent to flex. TJ wouldn’t allow their kids to blow off MITRE by not checking their email…if that was happening the school would hear about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t want the job, Janet.

Who are these teens who you think don’t use email? The Amish?

My 24 DS barely checks his VM. It's just not a primary method of communication for that age and younger.

I meant email... not VM.

Could be both- many companies have not gotten rid of their voicemail systems as younger gen was not using and so was just a cost for not used function

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pay them. Unpaid labor is ridiculous.

NP. They applied. So clearly they are interested.

Not necessarily. I’m a HS teacher and write a lot of recommendations. Sometimes internships or summer programs require them. You would be surprised how many times I hear “my mom found this” or “my parents made me apply.” My own teen doesn’t check email regularly but did when he was motivated, waiting to hear back for a job he actually wanted. He wasn’t as motivated when he was bulk filling out things and not as invested.