For parents of college students and new grads
Nobody spends four years of tuition planning to redecorate the basement for their graduate. RocketJob shows your student who to contact and what to say, turns the search into a clear plan they actually follow, and gives them detailed guides for every interview round, with tailored applications running in the background.
What keeps parents up at night
Your student is probably working hard. The problem is that the old playbook of "apply online and wait" stopped working, and most colleges haven't caught up.
The Class of 2026 sent 23 applications for every full-time job on Handshake, double the Class of 2023.4 Generic resumes get filtered by software before a person sees them.
What we do: Get them in front of people, not just portals. Guided networking opens doors, and every application we send is tailored to the role.
77% of recent grads say employers ask for too much experience at the entry level, and about 1 in 3 say that alone knocks them out.3
What we do: Turn classes, projects, campus jobs and internships into experience employers recognize. Truthful, and defensible in an interview.
You know the best jobs often come through people. Your student doesn't know who those people are yet, or what to say to them.
What we do: Our software maps their connections and alumni to hiring companies, ranks who to contact, and drafts the message.
Landing an interview and winning one are different skills. Most students get a single mock interview, if that.
What we do: Ignite courses on networking, interviewing and emotional intelligence, plus a prep playbook for every company.
Nearly half of new grads start out underemployed,5 and that first job shapes the next several years of pay and title.
What we do: Keep a full pipeline aimed at the right roles, so they choose an offer instead of settling.
Rent, insurance, phone, car, and a paycheck that hasn't started. For one of our UNC families, starting six months sooner was worth about $39,500.
What we do: Move fast. That student's first interview came 7 days after he started with us.
The math parents ask about
Move the sliders to see what starting sooner is worth. Defaults use our UNC graduate's real numbers.
Illustrative estimate, pre-tax. His full first-year package including bonus came to $89,000, a 14.5× return. Results vary.
In less than 30 days of working with RocketJob, my son accepted a life-changing offer at THE leading healthcare software company. Many of my son's friends are still searching after graduation.
Results for families like yours
Why RocketJob
The RocketJob guarantee
Career centers give advice. Resume writers hand over a document. We connect your student with the right people, prepare them, and put them in interviews. Then we stand behind it.
Bringing it up at dinner
"You did the hard part. This gets you in front of the right people faster."
Career Visioning starts with the job they want. It stays their search and their decision.
Fifteen minutes. They hear the plan directly and ask their own questions.
We handle the searching and submitting. They focus on networking and interviews.
Questions parents ask
Yes. Many parents pay. Your student owns the search, the portal and every decision. We work directly with them.
Less than you'd think, because we remove the admin. Your student follows a short to-do list: reach out to the people we flag with openers we draft, follow up when prompted, and prep with interview guides. We handle the research, tailoring and submitting.
No. The resume is the start. We guide the networking, give your student a clear plan and detailed guides for every interview round, send tailored applications, and guarantee interviews.
Never. We reframe real coursework, projects, jobs and internships in language employers screen for. Everything stays true, so your student can stand behind it in an interview.
Every student gets detailed guides for each interview round, from first screen to final round. One-on-one coaching and Ignite courses are optional add-ons you can choose at any point.
Plans are billed weekly based on application volume, and you can pause or cancel any week. We confirm the plan and price on a short call. Our UNC graduate's full program was $6,149. Ignite courses on their own are $299 for all three.
It depends on the field and timing. Our UNC graduate had a first interview in 7 days and an offer in 27. A Texas State student started in March and was hired in April.
Free strategy call
About a minute. Then pick a time for a free 25-minute call about your student's search. Bring them along, or we can reach out to them directly.
Let's get them launched
Book a free strategy call for your student. Bring them along, or have us reach out to them directly.
Book a free strategy callClient results are real RocketJob engagements, shared without names. Individual results vary.