In keeping with @PurpleTitan 's generational info, I do think parenting styles tend to cycle in trends which ebb and flow.
I, for one, would have liked a little more parental involvement in the college search process. My parents paid for me to go out-of-state (God bless them for that) and we visited a couple of schools, but other than that I did everything from signing up for the SAT to filling out applications. In the pre-internet age, I - a flaming liberal arts student - somehow ended up at an engineering school. Huh? Luckily I had a good experience. But was that really the best use of my college time? Probably not.
We Gen-Xers tend to be a little more helicopter-ish with our millenial kids, though some of us take it a bit too far. Nevertheless, I’d rather overdo it than under-do it.
We also have the “free range” movement going on, which is probably a direct reaction to helicopter-parenting.
PS: I would never, ever, get directly involved with my kids’ job search/interviewing process, other than to be a sounding board to them. ETA: If I had a job lead or saw/heard about one then I would pass it along.