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Welcome to our Parent’s Page! The Career Services Center is here to provide you and your student with information about career paths, jobs, internships, and/or professional and graduate school opportunities.

Featured Article: A Career Planning Course for Parents

If your son or daughter doesn’t seem to have a clue as to what he or she wants to major in, let alone choose as a career, don’t worry! This is not unusual, although you might wish your student had a little more sense of direction.

Choosing a career is a process students (and adults) need to go through—and students go through the stages of this process at different rates of speed. The steps include:

• assessing skills, interests, and abilities (this is an 

  important first step to choosing an appropriate career);

• exploring majors and career options;

• experimenting with possible career options; and

• organizing and conducting a job or graduate school

  search.

You can assist and support your students in each of these stages.  But what can - or should - you do?  Here’s your own career planning timetable... 

Read full article (pdf)