AS A PARENT, ARE YOU CONCERNED
WITH YOUR CHILD GETTING A GOOD JOB ?
Is it difficult to advise your own children regarding their careers and how to get a job?
While you love your children and want to see them happy and self-sufficient, they will typically:
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Heavily discount your advice.
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Know that things have really changed since you were job-hunting.
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Feel unintentional pressure from you to surpass your own success.
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Get tired of you relating everything back to your own experience with a
“…here’s how I did it, so you should do the same…”.
So what should you do, and not do, when it comes to helping your children with their careers?
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Share that early career choices are all about discovering their interests, learning, and gaining experiences.
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Share that they should try out as many different opportunities as possible
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Encourage them to find out the answers to questions such as:
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Whether they prefer working on their own, in small project teams, or in larger organizations.
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Whether they enjoy competitive environments, in which there are stand-outs as well as lesser performers.
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Can advise from a career coach provide an agnostic perspective that will lead to success?
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To maintain your relation with your child, leverage a professional career coach to provide direction without an agenda.
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A professional career coach helps your child think through the best methodical process to be successful.
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Let your child make their own decisions with the right guidance from a career coach.
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A career coach can help your child organize the complex and multifaceted process of a job search from the early outreach tracking to ongoing and persistent follow-ups.