Social Workers

I keep running across social work colleagues who seem to have given up the ghost and become involved in a variety of other areas of work.

Some have managed, not surprisingly, to end up in work relating to the development and implementation of social policy. Others have ended up managing call centres, some have gone into private enterprise offering to coordinate a set of services from health professionals for insurance companies, some have managed to get into academia, others into management roles within large organisations where their social work skills have come into play within diverse settings including HR management, Learning and Development, IT and general management.

For those people who are contemplating a career in social work - I guess it is nice to know that you can aim to work for the rest of your life in the profession and even nicer to know that you can have many successful career options stretching before you in addition to this.