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The Career Center
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6270
Fax: 910.521.6166
Email: career@uncp.edu
Location: James B. Chavis University Center, Suite 210
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YOUR ROLE AS A PARENT
Listener
- Initiate conversations on career plans
- Listen, respond, and ask questions
- Provide non-judgmental listening and honest feedback
- See the situation from your student’s perspective
- Encourage your student to be true to self, values, interests, and talents
- Help your student clarify ideas, priorities, and concerns
- Give feedback on specific abilities you see in your student to help develop a solid sense of self
- Help to develop independent decision-making skills and increase motivation
Network Resource
- Help your student develop contacts for information, advice, and assistance in career planning and job search
- Refer your student to colleagues, friends, neighbors, parishioners, family, and community members with experience related to his or her interests
- Offer encouragement to approach people and ask for this kind of information themselves
Advocate
- Encourage your son or daughter to avoid procrastination and begin the career planning process early (first semester of freshman year)
- Encourage your son or daughter to take advantage of all resources available to them provided by Career Services
Source: Harris, Marcia B. and Jones, Sharon L. The Parent's Crash Course in Career Planning
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