career services parent info

How To Help Your Son or Daughter With Career Decisions

The Carroll College Career Services staff recognizes and values the important role parents play in the career decisions of their son or daughter. Career Services can and should be an integral part of your son's or daughter's life at Carroll, and we offer programs and services which they can take advantage of all four years. However, unlike classes which are required for graduation, our services are voluntary. Students will be contacted by our office on a regular basis—usually through email messages—but we cannot require them to visit us. Your support and encouragement can go a long way to increase the probability that your son or daughter will use our services.

There are many new and interesting career paths in the 21st century that did not exist for our generation that your son or daughter will have a chance to explore. Please encourage them to be creative, to set goals, to follow dreams, to take chances, and to make mistakes and learn from them. They will all be the wiser for it, and it will set the stage for fulfilling, lifelong career opportunities.

To help you support your son or daughter, Career Services has compiled a list of suggested activities for students to participate in, organized by academic year in school. Additionally, we have provided lists of questions that you can use to begin productive discussions with them across all four college years, which will help provide answers to questions you may have as your son/daughter explores a variety of career choices, and that will help them recognize the importance of initiating their own career development process.