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Exploring Careers: 1st and 2nd year of college.
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Rewards Parents Can Offer for a Job Well Done

Offering appropriate support to a career explorer is essential to progress. While always well-intended, not all intervention and advice is helpful. Career Services has suggestions for appropriate rewards and interventions:

  • Assist with career exploration transportation expenses.
  • Purchase field-specific supplies.
  • Give a book voucher or bookstore gift certificate.
  • Fund a road trip to expand student horizons.
  • Offer understanding, encouragement, and verbal support, without doing the explorer's work.
  • Present a gift subscription to a trade publication.
  • Support membership in a professional association by paying the dues.
  • Buy the basics for a professional wardrobe: conservative suit, shoes, shirts, briefcase, and portfolio.
  • Praise the student who chooses a career path and major based on deliberate completion of the step by step career exploration process, beginning with self assessment. Applied self-knowledge is the basis for career satisfaction.

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