Well, it's one thing to have an interest, and quite another to impose that interest on the employers themselves. That does more damage than anything else.
>> you gotta' understand that when the parents have $100,000 and up invested in the kid's degree, they have a serious interest.<<
Yes, and they are proving it was a waste of money. It is not their presence that is killing the kid, it is the kids willingness to allow them to even be there.
I don't hire "mamma's boys" if I can help it. These kids are still children, if their parents are this involved. Companies want to hire adults.
Too bad they forgot about the "letting the young adult make decisions on his/her own part."
"Hmmm ~ you gotta' understand that when the parents have $100,000 and up invested in the kid's degree, they have a serious interest."
Ya, Mom and Pop are the co-signer's on the loan. In addition they probably took a second morgate on the house to pay for college. They are going to be damn sure Junior gets a job.
Junior does have to stand on his own two feet though.
Hmmm ~ you gotta' understand that when the parents have $100,000 and up invested in the kid's degree, they have a serious interest.""
Any parent today has more than that invested in just birthing the kid and getting it to age 18. The "college" costs are then added to above.
IF ANY applicant for a job where I was hiring showed up with their parent(s), I would not even look at the application, and I would take them aside and make it abundently clear to them that if their "child" was now 22 +, and needed their parents at this interview, why in the world would I think the "child" was anything more than still a "child".
The parents certainly couldn't be at my place of business and assist their "child" in performing the tasks of the job. What kind of co-dependent people are we creating in the USA in the past 2 generations? I have already concluded that we have bred the survival gene out of them.