Speed Job Hunting

I mentioned a while back that the Teenager is or should have been job hunting.  She has turned 16 and has a car so needs to start earning some $$ to keep her in the lifestyle she has become accustomed.
We had been subtly leaving the job section of the newspaper on her bed every so often and she had applied for a few online (as you do these days) but she hadn't really put too much effort into the whole thing.
Yesterday it all changed.  Straight after school she had a job interview at Cotton On Kids at Riccarton Mall, which she said went really well and also a notice was put in her schools morning newsletter thingy to say that the local Shopping Centre was putting on a Christmas Casual Job recruitment evening from 6-8pm for any students wanting to register.  They just had to be aged 16 and have a current CV.
I got busy updating and printing out 12 copies of her CV for her to wow prospective employers with.
It was kinda like Speed Dating but for Jobs.  All the stores that needed Student Casual Workers over the holidays set up little interview areas in the food court and the kids just went to any they were keen on had a 5 or 10 minute chat and dropped off their CVs.
She got rid of all her CVs with the likes of 'Cheap Skates', 'Glassons', 'Farmers', 'Cotton On', 'Factorie', 'Typo', 'McDonalds' plus others.  She said they all went really well.  She is quite lucky that she has had a bit of retail/sales experience working the shows and markets so that definitely came in handy last night.
I think it was a really cool idea of the mall to put this kind of evening together for both the employers and the students, its a great way for these kids to try out the whole interview process and for the stores to sort their Christmas staff out all in one go.  Just more reasons why we love this City.
Hopefully she will get 3 or 4 job offers out of this and maybe it will turn into something more permanent if she does well.  If it just ends up being a casual job over the holidays then its just great experience for her CV for the future.  Win Win.