Articles of Interest from other Publications:

The NACE 2004 Job Outlook

Networking not working for jobless
(from Newsweek)

What Former English Majors Do
(from the Chronicle of Higher Education)

Max Rao '99 from
The Travelers meets with students

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“Don’t forget to …”

A recent “New Yorker” cartoon shows the back of a station wagon with a stack of boxes tightly tied to the roof.  The driver and a fully packed interior are silhouetted.  On the rear windshield is a sticker telling us the entering passenger’s destination, E@UNIVERSITY.  An enormously cheerful couple stands next to the car waving goodbye as they give their departing college student one last bit of advice, “Don’t forget to click Reply.” These parents are far too casual in their farewell to be first-timers and are obviously practiced at letting go.

Whether you are a parent of a new or returning Trinity student you have probably provided lots of advice and guidance to your offspring.  As a parent of a twenty-something myself, I can assure you that eventually adult children acknowledge the value of some of your hard won wisdom. (I keep a running record of kudos from my son, blithely ignoring the brevity of the list.)

At Trinity, your student has the opportunity to benefit from the advice of faculty and staff committed to helping maximize his or her college experience.  But there is another important resource for your student: the extended family of Trinity graduates and parents.

Each year hundreds of alumni and parents make themselves available on and off campus to provide counsel and networking contacts for students.  Weekly Career Services events (see schedule below) are offered to help students learn how to leverage their liberal arts education into their field of interest or perhaps discover new possibilities.  Advice is easily available from seasoned professionals as well as recent graduates on preparing for advanced study, pursuing internships, interviewing for entry-level jobs and launching a successful job search.  If your son or daughter is hoping to network in a specific city, Career Services can likely identify Trinity contacts.

Encourage your student to take full advantage of Trinity’s powerful network throughout their Trinity career.  They may learn about a summer job at the annual New York networking reception in January,  contact an alumnus at a major investment firm in London who assists in securing an internship during a year abroad, uncover the secrets to freelance journalism, or find out how to move into the sports and entertainment industries.  

Though all Career Services events are extensively publicized, parents are invited to send an email to their offspring asking him or her to log onto Trinity Recruiting this week, check the calendar of Career Services events, and let you know that this occurred.  Say, “Don’t forget to click Reply”. Repeat as needed.

Cheers,
 

Lanna C. Hagge