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Career Services

Career Coaching

The Career Services Office offers individual career coaching appointments for social work students and alumni. Our careers team, which includes staff and graduate student interns, will help you clarify your goals, provide you with tools and resources for the job market, and help you identify a social work career pathway.

To make an appointment, log-in to your Handshake account, click “Career Center,” select “College of Social Work Career Services” and click “Appointments.” From there, you will be able to schedule an appointment with a SWK career coach.

All Ohio State undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral students have free access to Handshake through their @osu.edu email address. For questions regarding your Handshake access, please email handshake@osu.edu.

*Please note that if you require any accommodations such as live captioning or interpretation, please contact cswcareers@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

 

Schedule an Appointment via Handshake

Latest Job Opportunities

 

Career Services Events

Thursday, April 4, 4-6:30 p.m. ET, College of Social Work Student and Alumni Networking
Location: Woody’s Tavern, Ohio Union
Join us to learn more about the Alumni Society and network with fellow social work buckeyes. Register today


Tuesday, April 9, 4-5 p.m. Student Alumni Mentorship Experience Celebration Event
Location: Virtual
Join us in celebrating our mentors and mentees for the 2023-24 academic year. Register via Zoom


Thursday, April 11, 1-2 p.m. What to Know About Your Student Loans Right Now
Location: Virtual
Join us to learn more about student loans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) during a virtual event hosted by the Student Borrower Protection Center. Register via Zoom


Student Alumni Mentorship Experience (SAME)

Get involved with the College of Social Work’s Alumni Mentoring Program. As an Ohio State University student, you have access to an extensive alumni network both in Columbus and around the globe.

Mentees/Students

Do you want to:

  • Develop a meaningful, professionalvrelationship with a College of Social Work alumnus?
  • Receive career and professional development advice?
  • Discuss issues facing the social work profession today?
  • Earn additional field hours and a certificate of completion?

Apply to become a CSW SAME Mentee by Oct. 1 (applications closed).

Mentors/Alumni

Do you want to:

  • Offer guidance, support, and professional development to the next generation of social workers?
  • Build a meaningful, professional relationship with a current College of Social Work Student?
  • Discuss issues facing the social work profession today?
  • Give back to the College of Social Work community and earn a certificate of completion?

Apply to become a CSW SAME Mentor by Oct. 1 (applications closed).


Job Search Tool

Finding a job that can become a career is the ultimate goal of your studies at the OSU College of Social Work, and we want to do everything we can to present and facilitate new opportunities for our social work graduates. Ohio State utilizes Handshake, which is a platform for employers to post jobs and students and graduates to search for jobs.

Access Handshake as a student.


Careers Closet

Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Located in the basement of Stillman Hall, 009A.


Ohio Social Work Licensure

Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board


Contact Career Services:

Katie Justice, MSW, LISW-S, Director of Career Services
Pronouns:  She/Her/Hers
justice.228@osu.edu or cswcareers@osu.edu
614-292-8780