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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who does recruiting & hiring, I don't find it surprising.

I'm Gen X. I started seeing it happen for the first time when interviewing Millennial candidates. I work for a company with 200+ employees. If I did 30 interviews in a month, maybe 1 would bring mom into the office and leave her in the lobby. I can only think of 2 instances where the candidate wanted to bring their parent into the interview or the parent wanted to come in.

However, in the last 3 years, Gen Z has gotten bad about bringing one or both parents into the interviewing & hiring mix. Not just toting them along to the interview, but also them adding them to the cc on emails or even a few candidates asking us to negotiate their salary with their parents. We've had parents call in sick for their adult kids, and not for emergency situations like where they were rushed into emergency surgery, but for simple colds/flus. Another odd thing is that these Gen Z workers want to bring their parents to work to show off their work. For example, a new hire brought her dad to work to sit in on the first big meeting and presentation she was heading. [/quote]

I think this study is ridiculous and it's wild that people aren't being more skeptical of the headlines, but I can believe that this sort of thing happens. What is up with these parents? I get being very involved since getting a job these days is much harder than it was when I graduated from college, but I'd think that involvement meant working with your kid to build a strong resume, editing that resume, researching job opportunities, etc. If my kid asked me to do anything more I would think that they aren't ready to join the workforce. [/quote]

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