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10
Tips for Parents of College Graduates & Prospective College
Students
A
Career Planning Course for Parents
A
Parent's Guide to Career Development
Recommended
Reading List for Career Success
Books
The Parent’s Crash Course in Career Planning: Helping
Your College Student Succeed (Marcia B. Harris and Sharon
L. Jones, VGM, 2007) Available from www.lulu.com
Study Abroad: A Parent’s Guide
(William W. Hoffa, NAFSA, 1998)
Letting Go: A Parent’s Guide
to Understanding the College Years (Karen Levin Coburn and
Madge Lawrence Treeger, HarperPerennial, 1997)
Empty Nest, Full Heart: The Journey
From Home to College (Andrea Van Steenhouse, Simpler Life
Press, 1998)
Career Coaching Your Kids: Guiding
Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery (David
H. Montross, Robert J. Ginn Jr., Consulting Psychologists
Press, 1997)
Student
Guides and Handouts
Here are resources available for your son or daughter to help
them during their job search. They have the ability to download
as a PDF any of our helpful job search handouts,
page-turning handbooks, mind-expanding resume
and cover letter samples and more.
CO-OP HANDBOOK:
Cooperative
Education at RIT
COB
Co-op Report Guidelines
RIT's
Cooperative
Education Brochure
STUDENT NEWSLETTERS:
Job Zone
Student Enews - newsletter sent to all students years
2-5
Co-op Student
Newsletter - sent quarterly to students on co-op
WETFEET CAREER RESOURCE SITE and
WETFEET INSIDER GUIDES
Students login to their personaliced main page to access these
award-winning guides free-of-charge -- this valuable service
is brought to you by a generous contribution of the Xerox
Corporation. By utilizing Wetfeet, you'll be able to conduct
in-depth research on companies, careers and industries while
also receiving expert career advice. You will also be able
to download Insider Guides which cover such career topics
as Entertainment and Sports, Human Resources, Investment Banking,
Non-Profits, Biotech and more.
Note: This tool requires Adobe 6.0 and a
one time DRM Activation to view the encrypted PDF's of the
WetFeet Insider Guides.
CAREERSEARCH
We have secured access for RIT students and alumni to this
excellent company research site. Here
is a guide about Finding
companies Whose Work You Admire and Targeting
Your Specialty.
JOB
SEARCH GUIDE (geared to graduating students. This 31-page
publication includes a wide-range of job search information
and is available as a PDF))
JOB
SEARCH INFO
(All are available as PDFs)
Are
You Ready for a Behavioral Interview?
Career
Fairs
Company
Research
Co-op
Timeline
Correspondence
Day
of the Interview
Dress
for Success
E-Mail
Manners
Evaluating
Offers & Negotiation
Information
for International Students
Interview
Preparation
Job
Search Strategies
Job
Search Strategies: Pros and Cons
Key
Dates for Co-op Students
Networking
and Informational Interviews
Portfolio
Resume
Writing
RIT
Job Zone
The
Art of Negotiating
Top
Ten Pitfalls in Resume Writing
Transferable
Skills
SAMPLE
LETTERS
(All are available as PDFs)
Acceptance
Letters
Application – cover letters
Follow
Up After Meeting
Informational
Interviewing letter
Letters
of Inquiry – cover letters
Networking
Prospecting
Letter – cover letter (called cold call letter)
Rejecting
an Offer
Thank
You
SAMPLE RESUMES:
(All are available as PDFs)
College of Applied Science and Technology
College
of Business, MBA
Resumes
College
of Computing and Information Sciences
College
of Engineering
College
of Imaging Arts and Sciences
College
of Liberal Arts
College
of Science
Resume
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