How You Can Help Your Children Find Their First Job

By George Dodson


John is about to complete his high school studies. He will be graduating and shortly after that, he will be looking for a job. That is a tall order these days with the economic climate the way it is. He would be competing with about 40,000 similar graduates for getting the decreasing number of jobs available. Since the kids just completing their schooling do not have any experience, it becomes increasingly difficult for them.

John's parents are concerned. They realize that the incidents of kids living in the basement of their parent's home, is on the rise. They are wondering what they can do to help John t to find a job.

Primarily, the parents should not start pushing once their child graduate. Most of these kids know that they cannot live with mom and dad forever. They realize that they have to go out and look for a job. Your duty should be to give them proper encouragement and provide them any support they would need. Showing faith in them produces the best results. Even if you do not find expected results soon, you should not try to coerce of compel them.

Many youngsters do not have the ability for finding employment. They might give up sooner than necessary. Only way to avoid this is to provide them encouragement and motivation. You can also suggest that part time is OK temporarily. Part time jobs will give them the experience which would help them in landing in full time job in due course.

Treat your child as a partner in this endeavor. Proper communication would help you in knowing his needs. Many parents make the mistake of forcing their children to adopt their line of thinking in looking for a job. When you get a clue to what your child wants to do, encourage them in that direction. If things gets too bad, you should give support. It would be good if you sit together and work out a plan which suits your child.

By all means, don't be too soft. Your child would need some firm encouragement so that he does not give up easily. Be ready to step in when it looks like things are falling apart.

You need to establish good rapport with your unemployed child. Agree on a set of rules and expectations and make sure you both understand the signs when these expectations are met. For example, If they need to fill out 5 employment application in order to drive the car for a week.

You must resist the compulsion to take over and do it yourself. This is going to be counter-productive as it would lead to loss of confidence of your child in yourself and vice versa. You should understand that the things are different from what you had done in your own time.

If you really care about your child and their job hunting effort, you will want to pay attention to the above tips. This would help in maintaining the trust and confidence in both of you, once your child lands in his first job.




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