Tools they have gained from their liberal arts education such as the ability to synthesize and analyze information can be applied to finding answers to their career questions. Typically, seniors will begin to convert their choices to reality by setting goals, making plans, and taking action. Hopefully, seniors will be able to cope with the stresses that challenge them, but often they can be as undecided, as dualistic in their thinking, and as externally oriented as any first year student. The Career Center provides the services and information that seniors need to realize their career plans. Our experience has taught us, however, that unless a student is ready to hear and use that information, not much progress will be made.
Job hunting involves taking repeated risks and facing rejections.
Even the strongest of egos can sag under such conditions. Seniors need all the encouragement they can get. While all of the previously mentioned ways parents can be helpful still hold true, your ability to communicate your support is the single most important way to assist your senior. It's often hard not to rescue, especially as it once was entirely appropriate in your role as parents to do so. There are three major ways to be supportive.