Hire A Teen

What Hire A Teen does

Hire A Teen (legal name: Hire Teen) is a privately held, U.S.-focused online employment resource platform founded in 2009 and headquartered in Poughkeepsie, New York. The company operates hireteen.com, a WordPress-based content and job-listing site aimed at connecting teenage job seekers aged 12-19 with employers offering age-appropriate positions. The platform is segmented by age (dedicated landing pages for each year from 12 through 19), industry (restaurants, retail, amusement parks, automotive, government, movie theaters, resorts, summer camps, modeling, cleaning, moving, etc.), and geography, and includes an embedded job-search widget with age filtering, keyword and state-level location inputs, and a directory of 280+ employers known to hire teens. The product surface also combines career-guide pages covering roles such as cashier, cook, delivery driver, dishwasher, lifeguard, pharmacy technician, automotive technician, bartender, and team member, with wage expectations and certification information tied to federal and state child-labor rules.

The underlying technology stack is a straightforward WordPress CMS served via Cloudflare, with no mobile app, no public APIs, no SDKs, and no disclosed proprietary features. Distribution is concentrated in organic search for age-specific job queries, supplemented by an active social media presence on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook under the @hireteen handle.

The company's business model has shifted materially: the platform is free to teen job seekers, and although employer job postings previously represented the core monetization lever, the company stopped accepting new employer postings as of April 2025. Current job listings are now sourced from third-party services or user submissions, leaving the operation effectively as an independently run, lean content/media property with no disclosed funding, no ownership or investor base, and 11-50 employees.

Name

Hire A Teen

Legal name

Hire Teen

Website

https://hireteen.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hire A Teen is a U.S. online platform that aggregates teen job listings, an employer directory of 280+ teen-friendly companies, and career guides for job seekers ages 12-19.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Employment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Internship/Apprenticeship Matching & Work-Based Learning Platforms (EDAFAMAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Youth & Young Adult Workforce Programs (Out-of-School Youth) (EDAAAOAD)

Keywords

• Teen job board
• Youth employment
• First jobs guide
• Age-specific job search
• Teen employer directory

Headquarters

HQ city

Poughkeepsie

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Job Postings (Historical): Previously accepted job postings from employers seeking teenage workers. The FAQ states they stopped accepting job postings starting April 2025. The job listings on the site now come from third-party services or user submissions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hire A Teen operates a free online resource connecting teenage job seekers ages 12-19 with employers offering age-appropriate positions. The platform provides an age-segmented job board, a curated directory of 280+ companies that hire teens, and a library of career guides covering 10+ first-job positions such as cashier, cook, lifeguard, and pharmacy technician. Content is aggregated from third-party job services and supplemented with editorial guidance on U.S. child labor laws, work-hour restrictions, and state-specific employment regulations.

Product overview

Hire A Teen is a comprehensive online employment resource platform designed to connect teenage job seekers (ages 12-19) with employers offering age-appropriate positions. The platform consists of an age-segmented job board with dedicated pages for each age group (12-19), a directory of 280+ teen-friendly employers, and an extensive library of career guides covering 10+ job types including team member, cashier, waiter, cook, delivery driver, dishwasher, pharmacy technician, automotive technician, bartender, and lifeguard. The service also includes industry-specific job listings covering amusement parks, automotive, cleaning services, government agencies, movie theaters, moving services, resorts, restaurants, retail, summer camps, and modeling. The platform aggregates job postings from third-party services and provides educational resources about child labor laws, work hour limitations, and state-specific employment regulations for teenage workers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jobs for Teens Job Board Free online job board connecting teenage job seekers ages 12-19 with age-appropriate employment opportunities; searchable by age (12-19), keyword, company, and U.S. state. Aggregates listings from third-party job services and supplies editorial guidance on child labor laws and work-hour restrictions. Covers eight dedicated age-specific pages (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19).
• Places That Hire Teens Employer Directory Curated directory of 280+ companies that hire teenagers, organized by industry and age requirements, with details on available positions for each employer.
• First Jobs Career Guides Educational career guides for teenagers covering 10+ first-job positions, including cashier, cook, dishwasher, waiter/waitress, team member, delivery driver, pharmacy technician, automotive technician, bartender, and lifeguard. Each guide covers job duties, required skills, certifications, expected wages, and major hiring employers.
• Industry-Specific Job Resources Industry-segmented job resources for teens covering amusement parks, automotive, cleaning services, government agencies, movie theaters, moving services, resorts, restaurants, retail, summer camps, and modeling. Each industry page lists relevant employers, available positions, and entry-level opportunities.

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• ZipRecruiter: Generalist job marketplace serving employers and job seekers across all experience levels, with growing coverage of entry-level and teen-friendly hourly roles. Overlaps with Hire A Teen on candidate intent for first-job searches.
• SimplyHired: Job search engine aggregating listings across industries and experience levels. Competes with Hire A Teen for high-intent long-tail queries around entry-level job categories.
• Glassdoor: Job listings and employer-review platform that surfaces hourly and entry-level roles alongside white-collar postings. Competes indirectly for teen-job organic search queries.
• Indeed: Largest generalist job aggregator globally, surfacing hourly and teen-eligible roles via broad employer partnerships. Competes with Hire A Teen for organic teen-job queries and offers age-based filtering as an embedded feature.
• CareerBuilder: Established job board and talent-procurement platform covering a wide range of experience levels, including entry-level hourly roles. Indirect competitor for general teen-job organic traffic.
• LinkedIn: Professional network with expanding entry-level, internship, and student job surfaces. Adjacent competitor for older end of Hire A Teen's audience (17-19) seeking first-job or early-career roles.

Emerging players

• Jobcase: Worker-focused employment platform emphasizing hourly and non-traditional roles, with a member base concentrated in entry-level and frontline workers. Comparable in audience profile to Hire A Teen's teen job seekers.
• CoolWorks: Niche job board focused on seasonal, outdoor, and adventure-industry jobs that frequently attract teen and young-adult applicants. Adjacent comparable given the seasonal/summer-job overlap with Hire A Teen's summer-jobs vertical.

Direct peers

• WayUp: Youth-focused job marketplace connecting students and recent graduates with part-time, internship, and entry-level opportunities at major employers. Direct competitor to Hire A Teen in the teen/young-adult job-listing vertical with a similar employer-candidate matching model.
• Snagajobs: Hourly-jobs marketplace focused on entry-level, part-time, and shift work, with a large share of teen and first-job candidates. Closely comparable business model and target demographic to Hire A Teen, though operating at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/hireteen
• Facebookfacebook.com/hireteen
• Instagraminstagram.com/hireteen
• Xx.com/hireteen
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hire-a-teen

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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