Social Worker - For a Better Society !!!
 

Social worker is a profession committed towards social work and social change. Social workers gives a new look to the society. Social workers work through organization at state level, national level or international level. Social workers mainly focus on society and issuing relating to social works. They work in organizations and try to solve problems within societies. Social work offers diverse opportunities because every individual and society deal with different kinds of problems. If you are willing to take up a profession for emotional fulfillment and if your purpose of working is not just financial, this would be the ideal career for you.
 
Career Traits Job Opportunities
   

The profession may entail following traits:

In India, over 3 million people work at NGOs and various other social service organizations today. Opportunities are: 
  • A great degree of self- motivation & determination to work for common society.
  • Good interpersonal skills and patience and mentally strong.
  • Maturity to manage people and situation and all conditions in life.
  • The ability to work in difficult conditions
  • Accepting and tolerating problems
  • Ability to think objectively without being swayed by emotion.
  • High energy to handle the array of problems and to get into a conclusion
  • Genuine liking for people, concern for their welfare, patience,
  • No prejudices about class, culture, religion, and race make up .
  • In correctional work such as in prisons, and government departments.
  • Medical and psychiatric social work in hospitals, child guidance clinics, mental hospitals, community health centers
  • Involved in field work with community groups, government and voluntary agencies and Non Governmental Agencies (NGO's).
  • Awareness campaigns of the government.
  • With United to facilitate developing countries in their social welfare and other developmental programmes
   
Major Institutes providing professional courses
                    Social Worker Online
                    Professional social worker in India  
   
Duration of the course  
             B.S.W / B.A (SW),  Duration: 3years

CAREER REQUIREMENTS :
     Candidates must  have to clear the XIIth standard can apply for the bachelor  course.degree course.
  • Qualification in some of the allied fields like criminology, anthropology, psychology, occupational therapy, sociology and health and hospital administration are also found equally suitable to work in this area.
  • The field of social work encompasses a variety of subjects like sociology, psychology, education, criminology, industrial relations and personnel management and medical sciences and career.