This career interest area focuses on advocating for change through the political structure. This can include opportunities in local, state, or federal government, public or private policy agenda, and various different types and areas of the legal field.
Resources
Explore the list of resources below to learn more about career paths in the Government, Policy, and Law career interest area. These resources will help you discover opportunities, grow your network, and more!
Join the Public Service career interest area in Handshake:
- Log in to Handshake
- Click on your name in the top right corner of the screen
- Select 'Career Interests'
- Navigate to the question 'In what career interest areas are you most interested?'
- Select the 'Public Service' career interest area
- Click the 'Save My Career Interests Button'
Explore offerings in departments, programs and centers such as these:
General exploration
Industry Based Exploration
- JobsOHIO
- Federal Government Job Search
- Public Administration & Policy
- Mapping Your Legal Career — LawHub
- Policy Career Exploration
- Public Health
- Federal Career Guides
- State Career Guides
- GoGovernment
Job Based Exploration
Opportunities and listings
- Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities
- Department of Justice of Ohio Summer law
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- The Fund of American Studies D.C.
- Public Service Internship Finder
- Internships on Capitol Hill
- SOTC
- U.S. government pathways internship
- USA Jobs
- The Washington Center
- Careers in Government
- Government jobs
- Public Affairs Council
- PoliCorner
- Public Health Jobs
- Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellowship
Funding
Networking the best way to tap into the hidden job market—an immense underground marketplace where jobs open up and then are filled through word of mouth and personal referrals.
There are many ways to network at CWRU:
Economics
- American Economic Association
- International Economic Development Council
- National Association for Business Economics
Foreign Language and Global Studies
- American Translators Association
- American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages
- Disaster Relief Agencies
- Foreign Policy Association
- International RelationsEDU
- U.S. Committee For Refugees and Immigrants
Law
- American Bar Association
- National Federation of Paralegal Associations
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
Political Science and Government
- American Political Science Association
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- International Association for Political Science Students
Public Administration and Urban Studies
- American Planning Association
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- American Society for Public Administration
- Urban Land Institute
Public Health
Here is a selection of organizations that might interest you:
- Case Cares
- CWRU Society for Constitutional Policy
- Phi Alpha Delta
- Student Demand Action
- Undergraduate Student Government
- Undergraduate Mock Trial
- Undergraduate Law Journal
- CWRU Journal of Economics
- Debate Society
- Model United Nations
For a full list of student clubs and organizations that match your interests visit CampusGroups.
- Data USA: Facts about employment, salary and more by major/industry category
- GovLoop career resources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics by Industry
- Read about outcomes and data for CWRU students