I’ve been to a year’s worth of NACE and NACE regional affiliate conferences and am always intrigued by the number of sessions that discuss the issue of parents in career services and recruiting. Oh, the tales that are told: Fortune 500 corporations that fund elaborate “parent orientations” to coincide with their new hire orientation sessions; career service offices that spend just as much time and energy informing parents of their offspring’s career options as they do the students; and of course, then there are the stories about the parents themselves… The media has been focusing on this for several years; these articles from USA Today, Forbes, and MSNBC aren’t new.
I spent six years as a middle school teacher and saw this trend creeping up the education ladder. But while middle school seems like an understandable time period for parents to hover, college graduates seem a bit old for this kind of treatment.
One of the interesting studies I’ve read recently was published in December’s Journal of Family Psychology. In this study, 392 unmarried college students and at least one of their parents were surveyed about whether these students are perceived as adults or not. It stands to reason that if only 16% of the 18 to 26 year olds see themselves as adults, their parents’ perception may not be that different (16% of moms and 19% of dads perceive their children as adults). You can read more in this USA Today article or this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (if you have a subscription to the latter).
So while the negatives are fairly well documented, what do you see as the benefits of this kind of uber-close relationship between parents and children (aside from making sure that they get to interviews on time)? Is this trend going away anytime soon? What are you doing to accommodate parents, whether in terms of career services or organizational recruiting?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Fascinating way to think about ATTENDING a session- although the blog is directed towards presenters...
"But what we aren't doing, and where the real opportunity might exist, is crafting tools and resources that support all meeting attendees as catalysts for content sharing and meaningful change in their own organizations. We should think of every single meeting planned and workshop created as a train-the-trainer event, an equip-the-teacher opportunity."
Read the whole post here:
http://jeffreycufaude.blogspot.com/2008/05/one-to-many.html
Wouldn't it be great if as an attendee you went in with the idea that you had to go back and teach others? How can presenters make this happen? Or is just too darn much to ask??
"But what we aren't doing, and where the real opportunity might exist, is crafting tools and resources that support all meeting attendees as catalysts for content sharing and meaningful change in their own organizations. We should think of every single meeting planned and workshop created as a train-the-trainer event, an equip-the-teacher opportunity."
Read the whole post here:
http://jeffreycufaude.blogspot.com/2008/05/one-to-many.html
Wouldn't it be great if as an attendee you went in with the idea that you had to go back and teach others? How can presenters make this happen? Or is just too darn much to ask??
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