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A Parents Guide to Career Planning

Source: www.business.uiuc.edu
Topic: Careers

Sort Desciption: help a student with career planning is listen: be open. to ideas try to help your student find ... career center services. And its a good time for you to ...

Content Inside: JobWeb 1 www.jobweb.com One of the most valuable things parents can do to help a student with career planning is listen: be open to ideas try to help your student find information and be nonjudgmental. Here are 10 ways you can help: 1. Encourage your child to visit the career center (and you go too!) Next time you visit campus drop into the career services office and pick up a business card from one of the career counselors. When your son or daughter is feeling anxious about his/her future offer the card and say Please call this person. He (or she) can help you. Many students use their first semester to settle into college life and so perhaps the spring semester of the freshman year is the optimal time to start using career center services. And its a good time for you to prompt that first visit. Ask your student (in an off-handed way) Have you visited the career center? If you hear You only go there when you are a senior then its time to reassure them that career services is not just for seniors and meeting with a career counselor can take place at any point (and should take place frequently) in their college career. The sooner a student becomes familiar with the staff resources and programs the better prepared he or she will be to make wise career decisions. Many centers offer a full range of career development and job-search help including: mock interviews a network of alumni willing to talk about their jobs and careers a library of books on a wide range of careers workshops on writing resumes and cover letters a recruiting program and individual advising. Reprinted from JobWeb (www.jobweb.com) with permission of the National Association of Colleges and Employers copyright holder. 2. Advise your student to write a resume Writing a resume can be a reality test and can help a student identify weak areas that require improvement. Suggest your student get sample resumes from the career center from books at the public library or online put link ...

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