The economy is probably worse than it was last year, no matter what President Obama says. Unemployment is NOT going down and businesses are continuing to lay people off. Students and teens are the ones with the least work experience and so it is they that will find the job search the most difficult.

The jobs that most students will want this summer are of the part time variety. For that, Snagajob is the best place to go online because they specialize in hourly and part time jobs. If you can get a job right now while school is still in session, you might be able to keep that job throughout the summer.

Younger teens are the ones that are really suffering in this economic downturn. Last year many teenagers and students were unable to find any job at all. This will be the second straight year that the job search will be a challenge for them. Employers always want to see some job experience and if you can’t ever get that first job, how are you supposed to get job experience? It is sort of a catch 22 for many young people trying to get their first jobs.

The best way to find student summer jobs is to think of where you would like to work and then ask whether they have or will have any openings. Right now, in order to get a job you need to be brave enough to go into businesses and ask about jobs knowing you will probably get turned down. If you are able to deal with rejection and know that it is probably coming, it will allow you to not get too discouraged and keep going.

Those students who are ultimately successful in finding work will be the ones who kept inquiring  about jobs and put themselves out there over and over. You should tell everyone you know that you are looking for a summer job and the more contacts you make, the better chance you will have. If you have a resume you should hand that out so that employers will have a better chance of remembering you. You might even have simple business cards printed up with your name and telephone on them to hand out to prospective employers. It is a simple fact that the harder you work and the more effort you make to get a job, the more likely you will be successful.

There are many ways to make money but getting a job is by far the best way for your future. Student jobs are something you can put on your resume that will help you get better and higher paying jobs in the future when you get older. Just because you have heard that work is hard to find doesn’t mean you should give up and never try. If you do work hard to network and land a job, you will get a special sense of satisfaction that you overcame adversity and it will give you confidence in your future job searches. Good luck!

If you are one of the unlucky ones that is without a job, you need to do as many things as you can to give yourself the best chance of getting hired again. Sitting around all day complaining and feeling sorry for yourself isn’t one of those productive things. You can try to make money from home online but for most people, getting a real job is the best option.

Use The Online Job Sites

Nowdays, you must have your resume posted at the online job search sites if you want to give yourself the best opportunity to have an employer find and hire you. Many companies now do some or even all their recruiting online. If you don’t have your resume online where employers can find it, you are at a big disadvantage to everyone else who does. If you are one of those people who still resists technology and computers, now is the time to start learning.

The top free job search websites are:

1) Job.com is free and is one of the biggest websites where you can search for jobs in your area and post your resume online so employers can find and view it.

2) Monster.com is free and is the biggest of all the job web sites. You can both pst a resume and search for jobs.

3) Snagajob is also free and if you are looking for part time or hourly work, this site is the first place you should go.

Go To Job Fairs

If you are one of the ones looking for a job, you should seek out all the job fairs in you city. Even if they are not for the exact field you are in, it might be beneficial to go to all the ones that are related in any way to what you do. You never know what ideas you might get and what connections you might make by just getting yourself out there and mingling with both job searchers and employers.

Job fairs are great because they are a collection of companies that are all hiring or foresee hiring in the near future. Jobs are not going to come to you if you just sit home all day and getting out and making contacts is the smart thing to do.

Tell Your Friends and Neighbors

Along the same line is to tell everyone you know that you are looking for a job. This includes friends, relatives, past co-workers, neighbors and anyone else that you are friendly with. This does not mean to go out and beg your friends to help you get a job: it just means to let people know that you are looking and if you are lucky one of them might be able to give you a lead or two. In this economy, your pride is not something that you should be worried about as everyone from janitors to company presidents are finding themselves out of work these days.

Use Employment Agencies and Recruiters

Many middle salary jobs are found through employment agencies and recruiters. You will find that many times, if you post your resume online at one of the job web sites, your resume will be seen by recruiters. The call or email you get will not be from the company itself but from a recruiter they have hired to help find potential candidates.

Not only are you looking for a job but companies are always on the lookout for good talent that might fit in with their corporate culture. Job finding and  has evolved and become a big business where there are lots of middlemen (recruiters) who’s only job it is to find people that might might qualify for jobs and to send them on to the various companies they work for.

Companies of all sizes use recruiters to sift through all the job candidates and find the ones that have the most attributes they are looking for. You too can use an employment agency or recruiter to help you with your job search but you will have to be prepared to pay for it.

Most notably is of course the Obama health care bill that was looking like it would go through until the surprise election in Massachussets of Republican Scott Brown. Whether it passes or some cut down version does, it will still mean the government takes a bigger role in our health care.

The proposed takeover of student loans is another example of something President Obama is pushing that would shift loans from private practice exclusively to the federal government. The longer he is in office it seems, the more attempts will be made to add government workers and transfer power to the government.

Anyone looking for a job it seems, might do well to start looking to get hired by Uncle Sam. There will probably be more jobs added there than in any other industry. Besides, it has always been known that government workers take care of their own and stories run rampant that it is almost impossible to get fired from a government job. Many people in the private sector don’t like government workers for this reason and the perception that government employees do a lot of slacking.

Nevertheless, right now and in the remaining three years of Obama’s term, it is likely that there will be many new positions in the government. If you need a job now, why not look into getting hired for some state or local job or one in Washington? When you are able to get this type of work, you will most likely have all sorts of benefits that private sector jobs don’t offer and your job will most likely be more secure as well.

Under Obama, the number of US government jobs is going to go up significantly. Unlike people who work at jobs in the private sector that are always in jeopardy, people who work for Uncle Sam must feel more secure than ever. They know that, for the next several years at least, there will be little to no downsizing and they can count on their jobs being there.