Career Services

Most Effective Ways to Find a Job

• Ask for job leads from: friends, family, community members, Career Services staff, faculty
• Network - make connections, build relationships. Create a Networking Prospects List
• Target companies you're interested and contact them directly; call them, knock on their door, visit their website and connect with individuals working with those companies
• Attend Career Fairs and any other opportunities where you can meet with company representatives
• Check out Beaver JobNet – it’s the only job search database where employers are specifically looking for OSU Students – You!

Least Effective Ways to Find a Job:

• Online - spend 10-20% of your job search time applying online
• Finding openings on public websites – employers use those sites because they have jobs that are hard to fill and you have thousands of competitors
• Mailing your resume at random