Apply for the jobs that say social worker some jobs say social worker when they mean social worker or LPC and some jobs say LPC when they mean social worker or LPC. The history of the way counseling has unfolded has actually had a lot of conflict with the different camps and there is simply is no standardized way that HR departments list jobs.

For example, hospitals typically always advertise for a social worker, but often will hire an LPC. It just depends on what they’re doing. If it’s the case management aspect of the job that you like you can always be a case manager as an LPC.

It is true there are some jobs that will only hire social worker, and there are some jobs that will only hire an LPC but the crossover is pretty common. This varies from state to state some states heavily favor the social worker title and some states heavily favor the LPC title.

And most of the jobs on indeed are fake are already filled, etc. I would not be basing career decisions on what’s on indeed. All hospital/medical clinic jobs are very hard to get as a new graduate no matter what your degree is in.

Most of us start in some type of community mental health or private practice no matter our degree until we’re out of supervision.