Career services and resources

With support from WashU’s Center for Career Engagement, you’re on your way to landing the right position for you.

As a WashU Olin student, you’re on your way to an exciting future, whatever career path you choose to take. But when it comes down to it, the job you land as a graduate is where the rubber meets the road.

From in-person and virtual advising to career events to job resources to assessments and skills training, WashU’s Center for Career Engagement has the tools, resources and connections you need for career readiness and lifelong success. We’re here to help you find your future.

Career coaching

You partner with a career coach who takes time to learn all about you and your ambitions. Your coach provides individualized mentoring and helps guide your job search strategy for specific positions or companies. These relationships don't end after graduation and securing a job—you still have access to career coaching as an alum.

Find where you belong

Through the coaching and resources available through WashU’s career center, you’re sure to set out on the right career path. Not only do career coaches get to know you, you get to know yourself, what's important to you and what you want from your career.

Explore our student success stories.

Alumni career services

We’re with you during your time at WashU Olin but also after graduation and throughout your career. Tap into career coaching, attend networking events for connections and career insights, search our job postings, or contact us for talent recruitment/development.

Learn about your lifelong access. 

Personalized professional development

Whether you’re seeking a business career path or a different professional trajectory, we offer career guidance tailored to your needs and interests. Our industry leads share insights from relationships with employers who have offices regionally, nationally and globally. 

Full-time students

Long before you graduate, our faculty and career coaches work closely with you to chart a transformative new career path. Our career team members devote their time to forging strong bonds with students and employers. We get to know you and work with you to help narrow down future ambitions, build invaluable business connections and develop the interpersonal skills you need to excel at every step of the hiring process.

Coaching teams

Work one-on-one with a career coach while at WashU Olin and after graduation. Receive individualized guidance throughout your job search so you can network, interview and evaluate offers with confidence and pursue the best opportunities for your skill set and ambitions.

Customized curriculum

Partner with your career coach to chart a specialized course of study to get the most out of your Olin education. Use our self-assessment tools to get a clear sense of what you want to do next, where you want your career to take you and how you can best meet your professional goals.

Internships

Get started on your internship search early. Company information sessions, job fairs and networking events put you face-to-face with recruiters from some of the world’s top corporations as well as startups and nonprofits. Clubs, alumni and peer coaches can help you make crucial connections for job leads. 

Working professional part-time degree students

Whatever your career ambitions—increased leadership at your current organization or a new position somewhere else—our career experts help you showcase your talents and advance to the next phase of your career. We’re here to help you achieve your individual career goals with services designed to support you throughout your studies and beyond.

• Establish your individual goals and work on your career development plan at your own pace and when it fits in your schedule.
• Collaborate virtually or in person with us on career exploration, development and advancement objectives that matter most to you.
• Enhance your skills in networking, developing your personal brand, and navigating internal promotions and interviews, as well as learning best practices for a modern job search.
• Access the WashU and Olin alumni networks, online job postings, and campus recruitment opportunities.
• Gain strategies to put your career development plan into action and level up your journey with individual and group coaching for Flex and EMBA students. 

Find out more about career support for working professionals. 

International students

We can help you design and manage your career action plan, whether you intend to work in the United States or return to your home region. You can maximize your job search by looking for positions that are directly related to your field of study and are a match to your unique skill set.

Working in the United States

We use a variety of databases and applications to assist students with visa sponsorship, H1B and green card application statistics, and compensation data and job titles, as well as selected information of foreign workers. Our close partnership with OISS allows us to provide international students with the most updated visa and immigration information and keep them updated on trends.

Many of our Specialized Master’s degrees are STEM designated, and our Full-Time MBA program has a STEM option. With these degrees, you may be eligible for three years of OPT time (12 months of OPT and 24 months of extension).

Our employer relations professionals focus on industries and organizations across the United States, developing relationships to provide opportunities for students to connect to top national employers regardless of location.

Working in Asia

A dedicated Asia employer relations professional works closely with top employers and alumni in Asian markets. In China, we have a robust alumni network in internet, finance, FMCG, consulting and other industries. With more than 27,000 Olin alumni worldwide, you’re part of a strong and supportive alumni network after graduation.

Club Engagement

Clubs established by many different students and alumni—African, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, LGBTQ, Korean, South Asian and more—create additional support networks. Throughout the academic year, WashU partners with student clubs to offer industry-specific, career-search-focused workshops that prepare you for the real world.

Life after Olin

WashU Olin's name is known by companies the world over for our commitment Values Based, Data Driven^TM leadership.  However you chart your professional path, you'll be in exceptional company. Read the employment reports for a view by the numbers. And remember, as an Olin alum, you receive lifelong career coaching and support.

BSBA Employment Report

MBA Employment Report

Specialized Master's Employment Report