College to Career
Career Center
career@bw.edu
(440) 826-2101
(440) 826-2162 (fax)
CAREER MANAGEMENT
Baldwin Wallace University students learn how to manage their careers beginning their first year and for a lifetime. Career management is an ongoing and active process that involves these aspects:
- Exploring and Clarifying
- Connecting and Telling Your Story
- Gaining Experience and Building Skills
- Being a Polished Professional
FRESHMAN YEAR THROUGH GRADUATION
The BW Career Center can help you prepare for career success. Through personalized attention, workshops and more, we can assist you with career exploration, interview and networking techniques, internships and job opportunities.
Handshake
BW Handshake is a web-based platform with 24/7 access to job and internship opportunities, career related events, and relevant resources based on a student's career goals. Handshake is the largest early talent recruiting platform connecting employers, talent, and colleges and universities in one place and currently includes over 420,000 employers. Through Handshake, BW students indicate their career interests and preferences and the system personalizes relevant content to each student's account. This helps students easily find internships and jobs, upcoming events, career-related resources and more. Students can join Handshake as early as August 1 prior to their first-year.
Resources for Students
To see career-related resources and the career center event calendar, visit Jacket Connect.
MAKING YOU MARKETABLE
From our online career network that posts internship and job opportunities to our Pathway U software program that addresses possible career pathways — and everything in-between — we offer expansive resources and skill-building workshops.
CAREER ADVISORS FOCUSED ON YOUR GOALS
Your career goals are important. That's why our career advisors can meet with you one-on-one. They are professional, insightful and well connected to off-campus resources.
Professional career advisors are ready to help you:
- Choose a career focus
- Find real-world experience and develop marketable skills
- Prepare for life after BW (full-time employment, graduate school, other)
- Meet professionals at companies, agencies and organizations who can help you achieve your career goals
INTERNSHIPS OFFER REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE
Each year BW students complete hundreds of local and national internships. Our online career network and Career & Internship Expo link students to opportunities.
OPPORTUNITIES TO LAND A JOB
Connect to opportunities through employer meet-and-greet and information sessions, as well as on-campus employer interviewing, career fairs and more.
Nearly 90 percent of Baldwin Wallace graduates responding to the career center survey report being employed or in graduate school within one year of graduating from BW.