The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has an excellent career development website for college students and their parents.
Information for Parents - JobWeb
A Career
Planning Course for Parents
- JobWeb
10 Tips
for Parents of Perspective College Students
- JobWeb
To further assist you in helping your student with the college transition and career development, a list of recommended publications follows.
Helping Your First-Year College Student Succeed: A Guide for Parents
Richard Mullendore
National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition 2000
University of South Carolina
The Parent's Crash Course in Career Planning:
Helping Your College Student Succeed
Sharon Jones
Marcia
Harris
2007
Career Coaching Your Kids: Guiding Your Child Through the Process of Career Discovery
David Montross
Consulting Psychologist Press 2004
When Your Kid Goes to College: A Parent’s Survival Guide
Carol Barkin
Avon Books 1999
Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years
Helen E. Johnson
Griffin Trade Paperback 2000
Parents' Guide to College Life: 181 Straight Answers on Everything You Can
Expect Over the Next Four Years
Robin Raskin
Princeton Review 2006
Letting Go: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the College Years
Karen Levin Coburn
Harper Perennial 2003
You're On Your Own (But I'm Here if You Need Me):Mentoring Your Child During the College Years
Marjorie Savage
Fireside 2003
The Launching Years : Strategies for Parenting from Senior Year to College Life
Jennifer Wyatt & Laura Kastner
Three Rivers Press 2002
25 Ways to Make College Pay Off: Advice for
Anxious Parents from a Professor Who's Seen It All
Bill Coplin
Amacom 2007