Career Resources for Parents
Your Child’s Career
Parents can play a vital role in helping their child discover which career path is right for them. One of the best things parents can do is listen. Be open-minded, help your child find career information, and don’t judge their decision.
10 Ways Parents Can Help Their Child During Their Career Development Process
- Encourage your child to visit the Career Center.
- Advise your child to write a resume.
- Challenge your child to research several careers.
- Let your child make their own career decisions.
- Emphasize the importance of internships.
- Encourage extracurricular activities that will help build their resume.
- Help your child stay up to date with current events and career trends.
- Expose your child to the real work world (so them your work and meet your co-workers).
- Teach the importance of networking.
- Help the Career Center by posting internships and full-time positions from your company.
Your Students Timeline
How to help your student during their time at Freed-Hardeman University by offering encouragement and support.
Freshman Year
- Encourage your child to adopt good study habits.
- Always keep the lines of communication open with your child.
- Explain the importance for your child to meet professors, advisors, and administrators.
- Encourage your child to visit the Career Center and conduct career research.
- Encourage your child to research career fields in their area of interest.
Sophomore Year
- If your child is undecided about a major, ask him/her to visit the Career Center and do career testing.
- Always keep the lines of communication open with your child.
- Encourage your child to follow his/her interest and choose careers in that interest.
- Have your child contact friends, colleagues, or relatives in similar career fields to help build their network.
- Encourage your child to find career-related experience through internships and volunteer positions.
Junior Year
- Encourage your child to take classes and join activities that will help develop their career options.
- Encourage your child to participate in career fairs, on-campus interviewing, and workshops.
- Assist your child in building their career network.
- Encourage your child to get a career related internship.
Senior Year
- Ask your child how you can help.
- Listen to your child.
- Offer to assist with networking and other career objectives.
- Encourage your child to participate in career fairs and on-campus interviewing.
- Talk with your child about graduate school.