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Helping your Child Achieve Career Goals

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Many adolescents struggle with  career goals.  They either don’t have them, or they are confused about how to achieve them.  As parents, you can have a great influence on the career development of your children. In fact, parents have the most influence on students’ career choices followed by friends, teachers, and counselors.

Here are a few tips to help you guide your student to finding a goal and achieving it:

1) Communicate consistently and frequently with your child about school.  Talk with them about goal setting, and action steps to achieve their goals.

Discuss

  • What’s happening in their courses
  • How they are doing in their courses
  • SAT and ACT preparation
  • Career dreams
  • Connections between school and work

2) Take actions that help your child become strategic in his career planning.

  • Help them learn to manage leisure time
  • Arrange for specific work or internship opportunities
  • Accompany them on college visits
  • Arrange financial assistance
  • Assist in judging the program of a college and whether it is the right one for them

Helpful Web sites for parents:

Assessment of Interests:

www.careerkey.org

AKCIS.org

http://www.actstudent.org

Career Exploration:

www.careercornerstone.org

www.collegeplanning.org

www.acinet.org

www.doleta.gov/OA/eta_default.cfm

www.econdata.net