Career Services

Our Mission

The Office of Career Services is dedicated to enabling ONU students and alumni to develop lifelong career management skills by offering comprehensive services and workshops that prepare undergraduates for internships and matriculating students and alumni for career and graduate school selection processes.

Our Vision

Strategically cultivate and strengthen long-term relationships with “Employers of Choice” for the purpose of marketing our students in the local, national, and international arenas in order to maximize student employment opportunities and outcomes.

 

Through providing best possible resources, our graduates seeking graduate or professional school options will be enabled to enter into the school of their choice in consideration of demographics and economic scenarios.

Our Students and Alumni

o Valedictorians and salutatorians: 413 overall, 90 in the entering class

o Average GPA of 2007 entering class: 3.64

o 42 percent of students in the entering class were in the top 10 percentile of their high school class

What employers say about ONU graduates:

"ONU students receive a solid education and have good mid-western values. They are a great fit for our business." Lynda Gallant, SPHR, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company.

"Our Engineer In Residence Program at ONU helps to identify talented, well prepared students who meet our criteria for employment."
Glima Hall, Manager, Recruiting and Placement, Marathon Oil Company

"GROB prefers to recruit Ohio Northern University students because they are well equipped for entry-level technical positions in industrial technology and engineering. This is vital to GROB's core business of designing and building state of the art equipment in a global economy. We are excited about our relationship together and we will continue to build a strong lasting partnership utilizing ONU interns and co-op's to recruit bright talent for our future."
Darrin Lanasky, Manager, Mechanical Assembly Technical Documentation, Grob System, Inc.

"Walgreens likes to recruit Ohio Northern University students because they are well prepared and are great candidates for our entry-level retail management trainee positions. We plan to continue our efforts in finding our future Walgreens store managers at ONU!" Ilia McQuillan, Management Recruiter, Walgreens

 

Our Staff

Our staff strives to make our office a center of expertise and resource for our students and alumni in assisting them to correlate their academic experience with experiential learning to further enhance their competitiveness in their chosen career field or profession.

 

We offer over 75 years of accumulated experience in the areas of student development, human resources management, human capital acquisition, diversity, leadership, technology, and communications. We continuously strive to be the best by adhering to "best practices" aligned to public and private sector channel sourcing strategies.

 

Symplicity

Symplicity is an online data management system that connects students, employers, and jobs through job postings and uploaded résumés.

Faculty/Staff Student/Alumni Symplicity Training

Watch for Upcoming Symplicity/Optimal Resume Training Workshops

 

For more information, contact m-nungester.1@onu.edu or 419-772-2760.

To Activate Your Symplicity Account

New users, please submit a Consent to Release Personal Information Form to activate your Symplicity account.

The Office of Career Services at Ohio Northern University is committed to providing equal opportunity to all students, regardless of race, age, disability, or gender and will provide reasonable accommodations for career development programs to qualified students. All information associated with a disclosure of this nature is confidential, and the University will communicate this information to others only on a need-to-know basis.