Employment

Office differences can be oh so difficult to avoid, especially seeing as you spend most of your life with the...

In July of last year, the British Government introduced Employment Tribunal Fees for any employees seeking to challenge discrimination at...

US Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez (Left) President of Center for American Progress Neera Tandan (Right) A couple of months...

The debate of social work internships is a hot topic right now, and I hear a complaint about field placements...

What century is this? I have been obsessed lately with the retrograde decision made by the Supreme Court in the...

I have mentioned in previous articles that volunteering is important especially for students. Volunteering is usually thought of as an...

There seems to be an unspoken rule in social work that no fun is allowed. Aside from play therapy for...

Any Social Worker who has had the misfortune to ever need to consider whistleblowing at work will know that the...

Students and college graduates across the country know that finding a job, and especially finding a job you like, can...

White House Summit on Working Families-Panel on Career Ladders and Leadership From the time we had our first memories, many...

On June 17th, 2014, Social Work Helper Magazine co-hosted a Virtual Town Hall with National Association of Social Workers (NASW...

Having recently spent the weekend co-facilitating a leadership programme and then attending a job interview for a part-time communications position at...

Networking is probably the most important part of anyone’s career, and everyone, especially social workers and students, should be practicing...

There is an obvious age gap between generations, and each generation face unique challenges of finding their place in society...

If we are not welcome in the workplace and we are expected to live well into our nineties and beyond,...

Four intense years are spent learning social work theories and attending practicums to put theories learned into practice. Our values...

Twice in the last week I've been confronted by the issue of asking employment applicants whether they have any health...

Many of you reading this may be recent or soon to be graduates, and/or  you have been looking at the...

by Vilissa K. Thompson, LMSW In late February 2014, a hospital was ordered to pay $75,000 for violating the federal...

Education has long been considered one of the gateways to socioeconomic success in the United States. In today’s labor market,...