College prepares her for a degree.
We help prepare her for a career.
You’ve spent years helping your daughter get to this point.
Now comes a transition that can feel surprisingly difficult to navigate: college to career.
Launching Her gives parents practical guidance, tools, and resources to help their daughters build the confidence, professional skills, relationships, and career strategy they need for what comes next—without taking over.
Graduation is not the finish line. It’s the launch pad.
A college degree is an incredible accomplishment.
But employers expect more than academic success.
Young professionals need to know how to communicate, build relationships, navigate a job search, interview effectively, advocate for themselves, develop professional judgment, and make smart career decisions.
And many of those skills aren't taught in a classroom.
That's where Launching Her comes in.
We help parents understand what career readiness really looks like—and how to support their daughters as they develop it for themselves.
Her College Career Center Is a Valuable Resource. But Is It Enough?
College career centers can provide helpful resources such as job boards, career fairs, résumé reviews, workshops, and employer connections. Your daughter should take advantage of everything her school offers.
But career centers often serve thousands of students. The support available may be brief, optional, or focused on a single immediate need—rather than guiding her through the entire transition from college to career.
Her College Career Center May Provide:
Résumé and cover-letter reviews
Access to job and internship listings
Career fairs and employer events
Interview workshops
General career guidance
Alumni and recruiting resources
Launching Her and The First Five Go Further:
Individualized guidance based on her goals, strengths, and challenges
A step-by-step plan for preparing, searching, interviewing, and following up
Support building her résumé, LinkedIn presence, network, and professional story
Practice navigating interviews, offers, workplace expectations, and difficult conversations
Ongoing accountability so important steps do not get postponed
Preparation for succeeding in her first job—not simply getting one
We Don’t Replace the Career Center. We Help Her Make the Most of It.
Launching Her helps young women turn available resources into a focused, practical plan. Through The First Five, she receives the structure, personalized guidance, and continued support she needs to enter the workforce with confidence and start building a career that lasts.
Is she really ready for what comes next?
She may have the grades.
She may have the degree.
She may even have an internship or two.
But career readiness is bigger than a résumé.
Does she know how to...
Build a professional network?
Develop relationships before she needs something from them.
Talk confidently about her value?
Explain what she brings to an employer beyond her major and GPA.
Navigate a professional interview?
Tell her story, demonstrate her skills, and ask smart questions.
Communicate professionally?
Interact effectively with managers, colleagues, recruiters, and executives.
Advocate for herself?
Ask for opportunities, seek feedback, and make her accomplishments visible.
Make smart career decisions?
Evaluate opportunities based on more than salary or job title.
She doesn't need to have all of this mastered before graduation.
But she should be learning it.
Find out where she stands.
Take our College-to-Career Readiness Quiz to identify areas where she's already strong—and where additional preparation could make a difference.
Where is your daughter in the journey?
Preparing for Senior Year
Now is the time to start building the foundation.
Internships, LinkedIn, professional relationships, career exploration, and early job-search preparation can make senior year significantly less stressful.
Searching for Her First Job
Applications are only one part of a successful job search.
Help her develop a strategy for targeting opportunities, networking, interviewing, following up, and evaluating offers.
Preparing to Enter the Workforce
Getting the offer isn't the end of career preparation.
Professional communication, workplace relationships, confidence, judgment, self-advocacy, and leadership begin to matter from day one.
Your job isn't to build her career for her.
It's to help her become ready to build it herself.
This is an important distinction.
As parents, we're used to helping solve problems.
But the transition into professional life requires something different.
You can open a door.
She needs to walk through it.
You can make an introduction.
She needs to build the relationship.
You can offer perspective.
She needs to make the decision.
Launching Her helps you understand when to guide, when to encourage, and when to step aside so your daughter develops the independence and confidence she'll need throughout her career.
Because the goal isn't simply helping her get her first job.
It's helping her learn how to build a career.
Meet The First Five
Preparing for the first job is important. Preparing for the first five years is bigger.
The First Five is a career strategy and leadership program for young women preparing to enter the professional world.
It goes beyond résumés and interview preparation to develop the skills young professionals need to navigate what happens after they're hired.
Career strategy. Professional communication. Networking. Confidence. Self-advocacy. Leadership. Workplace judgment.
Is Your College Daughter Really Ready for the Workforce?
A degree is an important milestone—but career readiness requires much more.
When Should a College Senior Start Applying for Jobs?
A practical timeline for applications, networking, interviews, and career preparation.
7 Things Your Daughter Should Do Before Senior Year Ends
Seven practical steps she can take now to prepare for the transition from college to career.
Then:
Meet Christy
Why I created Launching Her
I’ve spent more than 20 years working in business, data, technology, analytics, and leadership—and I've seen firsthand that professional success requires much more than technical ability or academic achievement.
Young professionals also need confidence, communication skills, relationships, judgment, resilience, and people who can help them understand how the professional world actually works.
Launching Her was created to help parents prepare their daughters for that transition while keeping their daughters firmly in the driver's seat.
Christy Burnham
Founder, Launching Her
Christy is a business, data and technology executive with extensive experience building teams, developing professionals and helping people translate their strengths into real-world career value. She created Launching Her and The First Five to give young women the practical guidance, professional insight and confidence that can be difficult to acquire in a classroom alone.
She doesn't have to have her entire future figured out.
She just needs to be ready for her next step.
Start by understanding where she is today.
Is your daughter career-ready?
Take our College-to-Career Readiness Quiz and discover where she's strong, where she may need more preparation, and what you can do to help.