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Encourage older teens and young adults to persist in applying for jobs whether those jobs are in fast food, as servers or cooks in restaurants, or as clerks in stores. - 2
Explain to teens and young adults that the competition is also stiff for those lower wage jobs as women who were once stay at home moms enter the job market to help supplement a spouses unemployment. - 3). Let children seventeen and older, and young adults, know that they are not the reason they are not selected for low wage jobs and that there is nothing 'wrong' with them.
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Encourage older teens and young adults to find something to do with their time so that they are not focusing on the negative or blaming themselves for their inability to get hired. Suggest volunteering as a way to learn new skills, hone current skills, and as a way to keep busy. - 5
Have older teens or young adults who have been laid off from manufactures and construction jobs and have tools at home check with senior citizens in the neighborhood or through the senior citizens center to see if they any yard work or minor home repairs done. - 6). Listen to the concerns and fears of teens and young adults who have been either laid off or just can't find a job, and provide positive re-enforcement and emotional support.
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Suggest counselling for older teens and young adults who develop serious feelings of inequity that may make them feel worthless and depressed to the point you fear they may do something rash.
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