I’m a bit late in posting this blog because I spent the last half of May attending my oldest son, Adam’s, college graduation and moving my youngest son, Richard, home from college. Whew! As Richard and I went to take our chairs at Adam’s graduation, a mother and her elemenatry school daughter walked in front of us. The mother turned to her daughter and said, “Sis is graduating. Now what are we going to do with her?” Richard and I looked at each other and laughed. Richard said,
“With the help of Kidsoutnow, she might get a job!” Sadly, I see adult children living at home from last year without jobs or any idea of how to get one. Adult children boomerang home at even worse rates in these economic times than before when it was half of all graduating seniors. Lastly, have the job in place before graduation. Recently, the young man I mentored was job hunting when his work hours were cut back. I will often fill out his job applications as I have great handwriting and his is a bit challenging to read. On that first page it asks for four employers, past and present. Can your adult child list four employers? Mine had three by their first year of college because I required them to work in high school. They also had letters of recommendation from their former employers. Does yours? By the second year in college, they had to be working in the field they wanted to get a job in. Adam had worked two years for his uncle. They liked him and he liked them. He has avoided the failure to launch because we made sure he would launch.

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