Please join us for our next event, Pivot to Corporate Social Work, where you’ll learn how to make the switch using your existing transferable skills. You’ll hear from a career coach and two recruiters (all Social Workers!) about how to market yourself into a Corporate Social Work position this year.
We will see you on Wednesday, January 26 @ 4 pm pacific / 7 pm eastern. This free event is scheduled for 75 minutes and is open to all social workers and social work students.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please make sure the event appears on your calendar.
Meet our Guest Speakers
Alicia Whitney, MSW
Alicia Whitney is a queer, mixed, Chinese-American femme based in Brooklyn, and currently works as a Technical Recruiter at Orchard, an early-stage tech startup in the real estate space. She specializes in hiring amazing talent for Orchard’s product, design, engineering, and marketing teams! Alicia considers herself a career-changer and has explored roles across youth counseling, event production, community marketing, employee experience, product management, and recruiting, in both non-profit and tech start-up spaces. Being well-versed in the art of the job search and the career pivot, Alicia is partial to supporting folks who are actively exploring and searching for what their Amazing Next Job might be.
Alicia earned her Bachelor’s of Social Work at NYU, and her MSW at Columbia University. Outside of work, she curates a small community on Instagram dedicated to sharing job opportunities and tips for managing the highs and lows of job hunting. In her free time, she can usually be found watching a horror movie, snuggling her senior pup, or snacking (or all of the above).
Marthea Pitts, MSW
Marthea Pitts is the founder and lead consultant of The MSW Coach, a social impact design firm. She helps corporations and individuals engage in social impact and corporate social responsibility work.
She is a 3x award-winning workforce development professional and macro social worker. Marthea is a current Ph.D. Educational Leadership candidate at the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University located in Tallahassee, Florida.
She has experience in for-profit, nonprofit, corporate, governmental, K-12 education, and higher education settings. Marthea was recently featured on LinkedIn, detailing her journey to becoming a social entrepreneur. Her professional mission is to help individuals achieve lifelong self-sufficiency through education and career goal achievement.
Olivia Gonzalez, MSW
Olivia received her MSW from Loyola University Chicago. After working in Social Services for a year, she decided to take the skills she obtained in her degree and bring them to the corporate sector. She transitioned into Talent Acquisition at a staffing agency operated by Goodwill Industries, and then eventually moved into Corporate Recruitment. She currently works for Flatiron School, a tech boot camp with a strong social mission. She continues to use her skills in needs assessment, analysis, and advocacy in her line of work; all skills obtained through her Social Work education.