A Lifelong Resource
As a parent, you play an important role in your child's career decisions. Research shows that children are influenced by your views and expectations about careers, and until this point, you've guided your child on a daily basis. Now that your child is at Tufts, you have a partner in this process: Tufts Career Services. Career Services is staffed by professionals, prepared to work with your student right from the earliest stages of career exploration. Our support continues beyond Tufts as a lifelong resource to alumni.
Each student proceeds at a different pace in career development, with varying degrees of readiness. Therefore, our staff is available with resources and services that range from career counseling and assessments to graduate school advising and job search. Because your child will need to master the art of networking as an ongoing career tactic, we've engaged over 7,000 alumni and parents to offer advice and mentoring through the Tufts Career Network.
Just as faculty members educate your child about liberal arts and engineering, career counselors teach a curriculum of career development. We give your student the tools, resources, and opportunities to explore careers and industries, find internships and jobs, make sound career decisions, and plan a future as a young professional.
How can you promote your student's career development?
- Encourage your student to visit Career Services, beginning with a review of our website or a visit to our office and extensive Career Resource Library in Dowling Hall.
- Emphasize the importance of career education, exploration, and planning as early as your student is ready.
- Partner with us to teach students that they are responsible for their own career development, which will reflect the time and energy which they invest through planning and exploration.
