Helping Your Child with Career Development One of the most
valuable things parents can do to help a student with career
planning is listen: be open to ideas, try to help your student
find information, and encourage your student to take personal
responsibility in their career planning. How You can Help 1.
Encourage your child to visit the Career Development Center (and
you go too!) Next time you visit campus, drop into the Career
Development Center. Many students use their first semester to
"settle into" college life, and so perhaps the spring semester
of the freshman year is the optimal time to start using career
center services. It's also a good time for you to prompt that
first visit. Ask your student (in an off-handed way), "Have you
visited the Career Development Center?" If you hear, "You only
go there when you are a senior," then it's time to reassure them
that career services is not just for seniors, and meeting with a
career counselor can take place at any point (and should take
place frequently) in t