The realm of human welfare or social work has some particular
specialties that include primarily children, family, education, public
health, physical and psychological well-being and drug addiction. It has
been seen that the scale of job prospects related to social welfare has
only increased over the past years, this has even been validated by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics that a social worker had around 642,000 jobs
in hand back in 2008. The graph has certainly aggravated presently.
Since
majority of individuals working in the circle of social betterment has
some concerns regarding the industry they wish to be associated with, it
has even been evaluated that around 54% of individuals were then
working in the health and human welfare industries while the remaining
31% worked in government sponsored agencies at various levels. With this
entire report of job opportunities available for people working in the
social development continuum, it explicitly indicates that job prospects
are at no dearth, when it comes to looking for a stable and financially
secure professional career.
The nature of a profession such as
social welfare services is such that employees are assigned to work in
cities as well as suburbs. It is expected for a social welfare employee
to find a job in rural vicinities, as the space to exhibit their
professional concerns and skills is more extensive as compared to an
urban area, which is already quite developed. This indicates that social
welfare is a profession, which comes with a lot of responsibilities and
challenges.
Earlier, it was believed that not all specialist
areas of social betterment thrived in terms of job opportunities, and
not all offered the same amount of professional working security.
However, today, all areas of social work are increasing job
opportunities, particularly by the private social welfare organizations.
In fact, the increase of employment in this industry has been around
22% which is promising. This is likely to increase with the time owing
to the aging child boomer populace which will, over the span of time,
demand better health and social services.
Apart from the physical
stability, mental & psychological stability and drug addiction are
areas which are rapidly augmenting with job prospects. An increase of
20% has also been predicted by specialists as there is going to be a
strong demand of services to counter such deteriorating circumstances.
Last
but not the least, children and family along with education are areas
that are actually excelling areas in the field of human welfare and
betterment. In order to bring about a change, an anchor lies in the hand
of social services, augmenting the protection for children and their
families while at the same time, emphasizing on the local prevalence of
education is what is going to instigate a progressive developmental
scale in the society. Some of the specialized areas elaborated on
indicate the fields that can be explored by social welfare employees to
bring a progressive change in the society.
{pixabay|100|campaign}