<p>…for a job at a local hospital. Does anyone know how I would go about doing such a thing? Do I just call up a hospital and ask what jobs they have available for the summer? I wasn’t sure what to do so I figured these forums were as good a place as any to find an answer. If anybody has experience doing this sort of thing and would be willing to tell me how it works, it would be greatly appreciated! (Wow, major run-on.) Thanks!</p>
<p>I’ve got this exact same question. I don’t know how old LiquidPaper is, but I’m still in my teens (senior in HS) and I’d like to find a summer job at my local hospital (I already volunteer there). What would be the best way to go about find out about this/doing this? Does anyone know of any jobs that are fitting for me in a hospital, considering my age?</p>
<p>I am a ‘rising’ freshman. I’ll be attending college in the fall. Just f.y.i.</p>
<p>Our local hospital posts their job openings online and you can even apply online. Have you checked to see whether your hospital has a website? Look for a link to Careers or Employment or something similar.</p>
<p>Otherwise, just go down to the Human Resources Dept. at your local hospital and tell them you are interested in working there for the summer. They just might have something for you! </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Having just been through this with my daughter - at our local hospital, you have to be 18 to be hired - you can volunteer, but can’t be paid prior to 18. As a newly minted high school graduate, she is a “Pink Lady”, not a candy striper.</p>
<p>Two hospital jobs you can consider - our hospital hires and trains college students and college age students to be scrub techs. These are students who are going to the local commuter U, which has a wide range of evening classes - this allows some of them to work days. a few are interested in nursing, but most are hoping for med school, PA school, or just need a fairly well paying job.
The second is phlebotomist - this is originally what I wanted DD to do, go to a local for profit vocational school (Capps College and Virginia College are 2 in our town) and take the phlebotomy training course during winter and spring of senior year - then go to work in the summer. Phlebotomy is a skill that will follow you all the way to med school, you get to see hospital based medicine with all its warts, and you can get a job anywhere in the US. However, because she couldn’t get hired until after she started college, it didn’t work out.</p>
<p>Just a bit of advice from an adult. The only thing in life that will ever, ever hold you back is yourself. It NEVER hurts to pick up the phone and ask. The worst that can happen is that someone will say no - and then you can ask someone else. Except for brain surgery and rocket science, there are very few jobs/industries that can’t be learned in a relatively short time. Don’t think that employers are looking for the perfect credentials. What they should be looking for are people with drive, ambition and commonsense. If you have those characteristics, you can go anywhere. Figure out what you want to do and go after it - don’t think about how you don’t fit.</p>
<p>My oldest had friends who were orderlies at our local hospital, pushed people around on hospital beds and wheelchairs all day long and got an above minimum wage pay.</p>