Careers in Social Work

Social Worker: Profession for those with a strong desire to help people, to make things better, and to make a difference. Social workers help people function the best way they can in their environment, deal with their relationships with others, and solve personal and family problems (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Marketing Manager: Marketing mangers develops t he firm’s detailed marketing strategy. They also, identify potential markets, develop pricing strategy with an eye towards maximizing the firm’s share of the market and its profits while ensuring that the firm’s customers are satisfied.

 

Psychological Technician: Psychological technicians aid psychologist in the implementation of rehabilitation and treatment programs for clients.

 

Administrative Assistant: Assume a wide range of managerial and professional responsibilities. Core responsibilities include performing and coordinating an office’s administrative activities and ensuring that information is disseminated to staff and clients. Other responsibilities may include providing training to and orientating new staff members, conducting research on the Internet, and learning to operate new office technologies (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Family Services Social Worker: A social worker that counsels children and parents, either individually or as a group. They serve their clients by aiding the clients in resolving stresses that occur in the family – stresses that affect a family’s structure or functioning.

 

Travel Agent: Travel agents assess tourists and businesspersons’ travel needs, and help them make the best possible travel arrangements. Also, travel agents promote travel packages offered by cruise lines, resorts, and specialty travel groups (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Criminal Justice Social Worker: Make recommendations to courts, prepare pre-sentencing assessments, and provide services to prison inmates and their families. Probation and parole Officers provide similar services to individuals sentenced by a court to parole or probation (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Youth Director: A youth director develops and/or implements programs for youth, typically in a community center or spiritual center.

 

Special Education Teacher: Special education teachers work with children and youths who have a variety of disabilities. Most special education teachers instruct students at elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, although some teachers work with infants and toddlers. Special education teachers design and modify instruction to meet students’ special needs. Special education teachers might also work with gifted and talented students (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Guidance Counselor: Guidance counselors work in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools. They help students evaluate their abilities, interests, talents, and personality characteristics to develop realistic academic and career goals. Guidance counselors use interviews, counseling sessions, tests, or other methods when evaluating and advising students (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

School Social Worker: School social workers diagnose student’s problems and arrange needed services, counsel children in trouble, and help integrate disabled students into the general school population. School social workers deal with problems such as a student pregnancy, misbehavior in class, and excessive absences. They also advise teachers on how to cope with problem students (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Activities Coordinator: An activities Coordinator arranges and directs recreational activities for specific groups of people. For example, an activities coordinator in a nursing home might create a calendar of events for residents; events they can participate in, such as dances, arts and crafts, sing-a-longs, etc.

 

Case Manager: A case manager counsels and aids individuals and families requiring assistance of social service agency. A case manager counsels clients individually, in family, or in other small groups regarding plans for meeting needs, and aids client to mobilize inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning, keeping all information secure (Dictionary of Occupational Titles).

 

Child Welfare Caseworker: A child welfare caseworker aids parents with child rearing problems and children and youth with difficulties in social adjustments (Dictionary of Occupational Titles).

 

Registered Nurse: Registered Nurses work to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. They are advocates and health educators for patients, families, and communities (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Human Resources Generalist: A human resources generalists may handle all aspects of human resources work, requiring a broad range of knowledge. The responsibilities of human resources generalists can vary widely, depending on their employer’s needs. In a large corporation, the top human resources executive usually develops and coordinates personnel programs and policies (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Mental Health Social Worker: A social worker that provides services for persons with mental or emotional problems. Such services include individual and group therapy, outreach, crisis intervention, social rehabilitation, and training in skills of everyday living. They may also help plan for supportive services to ease patients’ return to the community (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Social Work Planners and Policy Makers: Social work planners and policy makers develop programs to address such issues as child abuse, homelessness, substance abuse, poverty, and violence. These workers research and analyze policies, programs, and regulations. They identify social problems and suggest legislative and other solutions. They may help raise funds or write grants to support these programs (Occupational Outlook Handbook).

 

Crisis Worker: Counsels and aids individuals and families requiring assistance of social service agency: Interviews clients with problems such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments to determine nature and degree of problem.  Answers crisis phone calls and house calls.

 

Social Services Director: Directs agency or major function of public or voluntary organization providing services in social welfare field to individuals, groups, or community: Works with board of directors and committees to establish policies and programs and to be rendered within legislative regulations for public welfare agency functioning without board of directors. 

 

Personnel Director: Assists businesses and organizations in hiring, recruitment and interviewing of employees.  Directs research and implementation of employee policies and discipline, employee counseling, and event planning.

 

Supervisor Policy Services: Aids residents of public and private housing projects and apartments in relocation and provides information concerning regulations, facilities and services: Explains rules established by owner or management, such as sanitation and maintenance requirements, and parking regulations.  Demonstrates use and care of equipment for tenant use.  Informs tenants of facilities such as laundries and money management a, and housekeeping problems. 

 

Program Manager: Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.  Reviews project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.

 

Occupational Therapist: Help people improve their ability to perform tasks in their daily living and working environments.  They work with individuals who have conditions that are mentally, physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabling(Occupational Handbook).