Northwestern Health Sciences University's Career Services Center is committed to enhancing opportunities for professional success for the College's graduates.

The Center is an integral part of the University's Office of Alumni, Development and Career Services because career development extends far beyond graduation.

The Center coordinates bringing outside resources on campus to provide instruction in the various areas of interest; coordinates programs and learning modules developed by faculty and staff; and provides a bridge between students and alumni of the University in a variety of areas that are mutually beneficial.

Services that the Career Services Center provides include:

• Identifying practice opportunities (associateship, partnership, purchase, start-up) in all potential areas of the world and assisting Northwestern students and alumni in taking advantage of these opportunities;
• Placing, where appropriate, trimester 10 externs in clinics where there is a high potential for future associateship or purchase opportunity;
• Acquainting students with career options that will facilitate exploration of opportunities leading them to good practice decisions;
• Instruction in assessing the value of a practice for purchase, negotiating the sale, and financing options;
• Instruction in assessing the value of an associateship contract and negotiation of the employment details;
• Enabling students to be in association and consult with professionals who facilitate practice acquisitions and who advise and negotiate transactions and associate arrangements between new graduates and established practitioners;
• Programs that will model, for students, effective patient management programs and successful marketing plans (including ethical and effective promotional tools);
  Instruction in planning that will result in a detailed, realistic business plan for their clinical practice;
• Locus, Chiropractic Location Specialists (www.locusmap.com). With the demographic site selection data, Locus enables you to plan your work by clearly demonstrating high potential sites as a first step in identifying a truly successful chiropractic practice.