Resources for Parents

10 Ways to Help Your Student with Career Development:

  • Encourage your student to visit Career Services early and often so that he or she can become familiar with career-related resources available at Lycoming College.
  • Advise your student to consider summer employment and to begin developing a resume.
  • Challenge your student to explore and research careers of interest.
  • Allow your student to make his or her own career-related decisions.
  • Emphasize the importance of experiential education opportunities such as participation in a shadowing opportunity, summer employment, service learning, study abroad and internships.
  • Encourage and support extracuricular involvement on campus.
  • Persuade your student to stay up-to-date with current events, especially in key fields of interest.
  • Expose your student to the world of work.
  • Teach the value of networking with others.
  • Share information regarding professionalism and the value of working as part of a team.