I read this article on the internet where parents acutally go out with their kids to go job hunting.
Thats just stupid..... (in my opinion at least). I wonder if that ever happend to IB employers.
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CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Some parents are writing their college-age kids' resumes. Others are acting as their children's "representatives," hounding college career counselors, showing up at job fairs and sometimes going as far as calling employers to ask why their son or daughter didn't get a job.
It's the next phase in helicopter parenting, a term coined for those who have hovered over their children's lives from kindergarten to college. Now they are inserting themselves into their kids' job search -- and school officials and employers say it's a problem that may be hampering some young people's careers.
"It has now reached epidemic proportions," says Michael Ellis, director of career and life education at Delaware Valley College, a small, private school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
At the school's annual job fair last year, he says, one father accompanied his daughter, handed out her resume and answered most of the questions the recruiters were asking the young woman. Even more often, he receives calls from parents, only to find out later that their soon-to-be college grad was sitting next to the parent, quietly listening.
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I would like to defer to my dad for that question....
they parents use TIME OUT instead of spanking - awww don't want little Jimmy to get his feelings hurt - it's a cruel world - deal with it
Disclaimer: The post above has been made by someone who is not currently employed in IBD, and has not had an interview yet...
I'm guessing if its any VP or osmehting at an IB, he'll probably tell the parents to F_ _ _ O _ _.
It'll too much baby BS for them......
Lol.... it'd be even more hillarious if a dad tries to call a trader up and says "well, why didn't my son get the job...." . He'll let it out on him good..
pathetic
Amazingly, that might even be an understatement in this case.
hey if it works it works. Get used to it, this is one industry where crying foul wont help you
this reminds of a story in the journal where "internships" were being auctioned off at fundraisers for elite private schools. Some pretty high profile names (including JPM) were involved...the internships were obviously unpaid and pretty much BS, but ultimately helped fluff up applications to top schools (for hs students).
I'd tell the parents to F--- O--.
I remember being back in undergrad (not too long ago, admittedly) and going to a Goldman info session. Classic example of what has been mentioned on this thread already--a girl's mother had driven up to school to attend the presentation...and then at the walk-up Q&A afterwards, the mom peppered one of the Goldman reps with about a dozen questions while the poor girl (who had no apparent interest in IB) stood next to her and watched.
Appalling.
So if anybody on this forum is considering getting mom and dad involved (beyond, say, submitting a resume and leaving it at that), try to be cognizant of the extent of that involvement. There is an acceptable way to do it, and something quite less than that.
of my first day in college when some of the parents were trying to help their kids register for classes and picking classes for them. Parents using their contacts to help their kids get an internship is one thing (hey if I could get an internship sophomore year like some of the kids i know did, I woud have been way ahead in the game) but this is nothing but ridiculous.
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