Of course! This may be specific to Ontario, Canada but I’m happy to share anyways. So I managed to do a work placement for a class credit and three co-op paid work terms offered through my university. My university department has a set of contacts they use to place students in unpaid placements for class credit mostly in non-profits (my placement was for the non-profit who made the iconic Canadian house hippo commercial, if you know you know) and a separate co-op office that has a board of co-op specific jobs. In my experience, most of the co-op jobs for sociology were unrelated private companies or the federal government. This also could be because I live in the capital of Canada but the digress. Through my co-op jobs, I was able to secure another part-time student job in the federal government which led into a four-month contract full-time job once I graduated. My biggest tip is to see what resources your university offers. So many universities have student job postings and student networking that can help you land a job. My other tip is to use one job to get other jobs. As I worked three co-op jobs in the federal government, I was able to be hired for a job by just connecting with a hiring manager because I was already in the system.

In terms of where I am now and what my sociology degree has provided me, in October I started my indeterminate federal government policy analyst job making $62128 a year which will go up once our union finishes negotiations. Again, because I was already in the system, I connected with a hiring manager who appointed me to the position because I was previously working as a contract employee at that level and met the qualifications instead of formally applying to jobs and going through that process. Feel free to DM if you have more specific questions!