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Students
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You have just received an offer for a job you want, but the salary is lower than you expected. What should you do?
Make sure you’re not leaving money on the table by failing to negotiate your salary. According to salary.com, more than 18 percent of job applicants don’t negotiate their salaries. The main reasons they don’t: fear and lack of negotiation skills.
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<p><em>With nearly a decade of experience as a family nurse practitioner, Clinical Assistant Professor Michelle Zappas offers students an inside look into what it’s like to practice in the real world.</em></p>
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David Schonfeld believes that an integrated, informed support system is key to addressing the challenges grief poses for children.
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Thinking of pursuing a master’s degree in social work? Here are 10 of the best career paths available to Master of Social Work grads.
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Starting a private practice is the ultimate goal for many licensed clinical social workers. These three essential steps will help successfully launch your practice.
The prospect of opening a private practice is alluring to licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) for a number of reasons — the opportunity to set your own hours, carve out your niche within the field and opt to see the patients that you feel best equipped to treat.
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After serving in the military and working for a number of nonprofits, Alonso Fuente brought his passion for bettering communities to USC.
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Social work students had the opportunity to connect with the Lakota people through a new cultural immersion program in South Dakota.
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David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has spent his career advocating for children—and healthy divorces.
Over his decades-long career as a social worker, counselor and mediator, David Kuroda, MSW ’72, has helped some 8,000 families navigate the stress of separation and divorce.
He has seen firsthand that dividing a family is never easy, but it doesn’t have to come at the cost of a child’s well-being. “It’s not the divorce that hurts children,” he says. “It’s the way parents get divorced, and the amount of conflict between them, that harms children.”
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For National Purposeful Parenting Month, we’re discussing a topic that poses a universal challenge to parents: how to talk to your teenagers about drug use.
We checked in with Dorian Traube, associate professor and senior associate dean of faculty affairs, for advice on one of the trickiest parenting moments of all: how to talk to your children about drugs.
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The Department of Social Change and Innovation at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work convened a social change lab experience aimed at finding creative solutions to the problems faced by homeless individuals.