u/Jealous-Report-6747

Hello everyone,

I just got my international academic credentials appraised by CASWE and it was determined that I have a SW education equivalent to a Canadian education. I then found out that even with CASWE accreditation, I can not call myself a Social Worker unless I have registered with a provincial SW association or college. In addition to this, almost all professional job offers require that I am a registered SW with a certain province as a prerequisite.

The problem is that I do not currently reside in Canada and I would have liked to first get a job offer and then register with the province in which I would work. Some provinces have more demand for Social Workers than others, but with all jobs requiring that I first register with the provincial body I am ineligible.

I would like to hear your suggestions on how to navigate this. Thanks.

Hello everyone,

I'm a recent graduate of Social Work and Social Administration in Uganda, and believe you me, there are not many professional Social Work jobs. If you believe the job market is horrible in a first world country like the USA, it's worse than hell here! Though there are a plethora of issues in this country that need urgent Social Work intervention, there is little to no political will or funding from the government. In the private sector, what passes for Social Work is remedial rather than developmental and this exacerbates the unemployment as little to no input from local social workers is ever considered as these large NGOS just roll out their board approved "programmes" that just hire social workers on a short term basis to collect data from refugee camps and impoverished communities, but never offer full time SW jobs and the jobs that exist are mostly Minimum wage. With no funds to study a masters' degree to improve my employment prospects, I may just give up on the profession entirely.

For a profession that was not founded with the intention to make money but to enact social change, it gets rather stressing that you are left jobless for about 11 months.

Any form of advice is welcome, thanks.

Hello everyone,

I'm a recent graduate of Social Work and Social Administration in Uganda, and believe you me, there are not many professional Social Work jobs. If you believe the job market is horrible in a first world country like the USA, it's worse than hell here! Though there are a plethora of issues in this country that need urgent Social Work intervention, there is little to no political will or funding from the government. In the private sector, what passes for Social Work is remedial rather than developmental and this exacerbates the unemployment as little to no input from local social workers is ever considered as these large NGOS just roll out their board approved "programmes" that just hire social workers on a short term basis to collect data from refugee camps and impoverished communities, but never offer full time SW jobs and the jobs that exist are mostly Minimum wage. With no funds to study a masters' degree to improve my employment prospects, I may just give up on the profession entirely.

For a profession that was not founded with the intention to make money but to enact social change, it gets rather stressing that you are left jobless for about 11 months.

Any form of advice is welcome, thanks.