Job profile / After graduation
The spectrum of professional activities in social work covers a broad field: e.g.
- Early education,
- child and youth work,
- home education,
- adult and family education,
- health and addiction counselling,
- Help for people with disabilities,
- hospital social services,
- medical and vocational rehabilitation,
- work with the elderly,
- help for offenders and the homeless,
- general life counselling,
- unemployment and debt counselling,
- company social work,
- neighbourhood work,
- neighbourhood management.
The local social administration (e.g. youth welfare office, health authority) and independent welfare organisations (charities and other non-profit organisations/associations) are possible employers. In recent years, social workers have also increasingly become self-employed.
