Posted on 10/25/2009 2:54:07 PM PDT by paltz
Its that time of year. College seniors from around the world are graduating, and they are hitting the career world looking for a job. And the interesting thing is that most are not doing it alone. Many parents are by their Gen Ys side and not just for support and to be a sounding board. If you are a helicopter parent who is hovering over your adult childs job hunt and interview process, you may be hurting your childs professional development and their chances to land the job.
Helicopter parents have not only been bombarding college campuses, they are now flying way too close to the workplace. Parents are now involved in the hiring and interview process and calling HR departments to negotiate terms for their children or to berate them for not giving their sons or daughters an offer. Parents believe they are doing their child a favor, but this behavior can actually stunt a childs adult development and hamper their ability to think and survive on their own. The hovering is also hurting the young adults chances to land the job, as employers roll their eyes and pull their hair out over the barage of phone calls from parents making demands, negotiating salaries and grilling them about benefits.
“This has to be a joke article.”
No joke. GenX failed to learn and were coddled. GenY is so damned unfit to live adult lives they are a bother to businesses. They must be told what a great job they are doing every day and they cry and act out if anyone talks above their understanding as that is just talking to them in a “condescending way”. They “feel bad” and get angry. I’ve had more than one “parent” call after I failed to make their darling brat a job offer. Needless to say the meddling idiots got both barrels from me.
“Time to get cracking on getting these guys JOBS!”
We don’t owe them jobs! They can start their own damned business, but don’t you dare say WE somehow owe them jobs. Where is it written that a person must work for a large corporation?
Yup. I love my boys, but there will come a day when they’ll be out and on their own and I’ll be enjoying it. I’ve raised them to adulthood and while they’ll still always be my ‘kids’, I want them to be **adult** kids. If a person hasn’t figured out how to do an interview by the time they’ve graduated from college, well... I really don’t want a 35 year old still living at home with me because I’ve always babied them and they can’t do anything on their own (a la’ Stepbrothers).
“Let me remind you there are 20 million young men in this country without jobs. You help them or they will find themselves self-organizing into armed militias “
Get real. They don’t have the ability to feed themselves but somehow they’ll be a major military power? They’ll cry themselves to sleep first.
“I’m more of a C-130 parent.”
lol! I bet that kid was well prepared for it, too!
We were unimpressed.
That's just it, who knows what they would do if a situation was in the making.
The problem with Helicopter Parents, it shows that the kid can't or doesn't know how to make an adult decision, it severely impacts that young adult and whether or not an employer is going to take the risk of hiring them. It gives the impression that not only are you hiring the individual, but their parents as well.
Many company managers and owners do not want to be second guessed by a third party individual that has no say in what happens.
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