Helicopter Parents – Invite em in!!

Thoughts to myself…Today I was reading about helicopter parents, a study that said that generation Y prefers to have them involved in their lives. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/05/08/helicopter-parents-challenge-our-assumptions-about-rank-and-class/So, my thought for today for professional service firms (as I tend to think about solutions for work) is: Why not invite the parents to the first round of interviews? It seems to me this would alleviate the stress of an initial interview for CA students (math majors may not be the most social people), but more importantly it allows you to “market” the company to the parents. I wager they have a pretty big say on where their child will end up. With parent-friendly interviews you are not relying the student to “telephone game” your company information. For instance, the student might be more interested in the flexibility of hours for their yoga class and might leave out the great opportunitys for diverse career devolpment – an issue, it seems that would be important to a parent.