When your career coach is mom
With the pandemic forcing college students to shelter at home, parents are stepping in to help their offspring find jobs — but should they be getting involved? Some experts say tapping networks is OK and can help speed up the process, but draw the line at the writing and editing of cover letters and resumes. Others encourage graduates to seek out a mentor, rather than a well-intentioned parent. Almost 50% of graduating seniors say they enlist their parents' help with job seeking, according to NACE data; 26% find them useful.
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Oh good grief. Attack-helicopter parents have already been doing this for two decades. This is not a new phenomenon. Heck, nowadays parents meddle in their “children’s” military training and unit assignments, disciplinary processes, etc. We have “adults” not growing up until they’re of retirement age.