Social Work Interview Essay
The first Interview that I did was with a recent Texas State school of social work graduate. She is currently working as a case manager for a child placing agency. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the pleasure of interviewing her face to face. However, the responses that she gave were very insightful and I gained a lot of information in regards to her specific line of work and the social work profession. I found it very interesting that as she went through her time in the social work program that as she learned more about the different career paths that she wrestled with what to do after graduation. On a personal level I connected to the comment that she made on how she knew that she wanted to work with children and ultimately in the end chose
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He has a MSW and is a LMSW working as the director of budget for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. I appreciated the fact that he was honest that if you are getting involved with social work for the money that it’s probably not going to be the best job for you. However, if you are getting involved in the career to help people than social work as a profession will help you to do that. There were many similarities in the answers between him and his wife as well as the way that it made me feel. That sense of being heartbroken for the children that are in the system as well as the fact that there are many sides to social work that the media doesn’t …show more content…
As I have personally helped with this camp in the past I was filled with warmth by the responses. That this camp allowed them to see the children that the dealt with in a different light in a setting where they could be kids again by allowing them to experience a non-adult work for a week at camp. Overall I really enjoyed getting to interview different individuals that are in the social work profession and grained some useful insight into the different career paths. I think that like the interviewees have said that a lot of the time social work is seen in a negative light. If we take the time to get to know the professionals that there is a lot, we can learn from them about the
He has a MSW and is a LMSW working as the director of budget for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. I appreciated the fact that he was honest that if you are getting involved with social work for the money that it’s probably not going to be the best job for you. However, if you are getting involved in the career to help people than social work as a profession will help you to do that. There were many similarities in the answers between him and his wife as well as the way that it made me feel. That sense of being heartbroken for the children that are in the system as well as the fact that there are many sides to social work that the media doesn’t …show more content…
As I have personally helped with this camp in the past I was filled with warmth by the responses. That this camp allowed them to see the children that the dealt with in a different light in a setting where they could be kids again by allowing them to experience a non-adult work for a week at camp. Overall I really enjoyed getting to interview different individuals that are in the social work profession and grained some useful insight into the different career paths. I think that like the interviewees have said that a lot of the time social work is seen in a negative light. If we take the time to get to know the professionals that there is a lot, we can learn from them about the