Parents: A Critical Link

As a parent, there are many ways that you can have a positive impact on your student's career development process. In fact, students often identify their parents as a primary source of career information and support. Students will experience the need for career help at different times depending on individual circumstances. Whenever that happens for your son or daughter, we hope that you will encourage your student to become familiar with the resources at The Career Center.

The links on the right can help you understand the career development issues most students experience, and ways that you can support your students throughout their time at Michigan.

• A Parents’ Guide to Career Development provides a list of ten things any parent can do to support their student's career development.
  
  
• Our four year plan helps students identify concrete steps and University resources to help them explore their options and make good career decisions.
  
  
• The Guide to Career Center Resources lists common questions that students have related to career planning, and a sampling of the services we offer to help students.

We hope you find these resources helpful. Please feel free to browse our web page for other topics of interest to you, and thanks for visiting The Career Center.