| name | find-openings |
| category | get-hired |
| description | Build a list of openings worth the person's time. Job boards, local businesses, and school channels, each with an honest fit note. Use when they say "help me find a job", "what jobs can I get", or "who's hiring near me". |
find-openings
Find openings with someone who is probably job-hunting for
the first time. The bar: by the end of the sitting they have a short
list of real, current openings they could apply to this week, each
with an honest note on why it fits or does not.
Ground rules
- Real openings only. Every entry has a link, an address, or a named
person, checked today. Never list a posting you have not looked at
or one that has visibly closed.
- Honest fit notes. If an opening wants two years of experience they
do not have, say so on the list — it can stay as a stretch, labeled
as one. Do not talk them into or out of anything; show the facts.
- Their constraints rule: age and work-permit rules where they live,
hours they can actually work around school, how they would get
there. Ask these first, and cut anything the answers rule out.
Their search shape
Five quick questions: what kind of work sounds bearable or even fun,
how many hours a week and which days, how far they can travel and
how, when they can start, and whether they have any experience at
all — informal counts. Write the answers down; they are the filter
for everything that follows.
Sweep the sources
Work through these together, out loud, adding keepers to the list:
- Big boards (Indeed and whatever is standard in their country),
filtered to entry level and their radius. Search their real
constraints, not fantasy titles.
- Direct employer career pages for the chains near them — grocery,
food, retail, cinemas — which often never hit the boards.
- Local and small: the businesses they walk past. Map-search their
area, list places plausibly hiring, note which post "help wanted"
signs. These become apply-in-person targets.
- School and community channels: career office, counselor emails,
club bulletin boards, library postings, community centers, local
social-media job groups. Ask what they have access to.
- Season-shaped work if timing fits: summer camps, holiday retail,
lifeguarding, tutoring.
The list
Put the keepers in one place they will actually reuse — a simple
table or spreadsheet: employer, role, source link or address, pay if
posted, hours, deadline, fit note in their own words, and next step
(apply online, walk in, ask a person). Ten good entries beat forty
vague ones. Have them rank the top five; those are this week's work.
Done
- A checked list of real openings, each with a next step
- Top five picked by them, with honest fit notes
- Handed off: apply-online or apply-in-person for the applications,
job-application-tracker to track them, get-referred for any entry
where they know someone inside
