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Parenting College Students – Turning Internships Into Job Success
Parenting college students during their college years should include encouraging internships. The college years are a once-in-a-lifetime experience for emerging adults. Moms and Dads serve as good advisors when they encourage their students to seek out internships in fields of their interest. College internships are generally summer employment opportunities that offer job exposure in a particular field of interest, giving college students an introduction to important people who may, in the future, become valuable contacts. It is important that parents remind their students that contacts have contacts. Every contact may know someone else who will be able to provide the student with subsequent employment opportunities. Parents should stress the importance of having a job experience. Their Read more
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Make Money With Your College Papers
What do you do with your college essays, reports and research papers? Many students just toss them after they’ve served their purpose. I used to keep them until the end of the semester and then trash them. That’s a lot of work lost; work that could help someone else. Plus, I’ve discovered, it amounts to a lot of potential money down the drain. Your completed work is valuable research material for others. Just as we search through books, magazines and various studies, our work is just as valuable. Studies and experiments you conducted are just as valid for others’ papers as published works. The research you spent hours reviewing for your papers may be useful to others writing a paper on the same or similar topics. At the same time you can make a few dollars Read more