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20 Interview Questions Every Social Worker Needs to Know

By Dorlee

Starting your social work interview preparation? Begin with these 20 basic social work interview questions every social worker should know. This guide covers essential questions organized by category: general inquiries about your career choice, assessment of clinical skills and techniques, and personality/working style questions. Learn the Problem, Action, Result (PAR) approach for behavioral interviews, a foundational technique that will serve you throughout your career. Includes valuable input from experienced social workers in the comments section. Once you’ve mastered these basics, explore our comprehensive 40 Interview Questions post for expanded preparation.

Filed Under: Career Guidance, Social Work Career Tagged With: career development, career management, interview questions, job search, social work, social work interview questions, social worker

What I Learned First Week on Job Search Journey

By Dorlee

To continue from last week,  I am sharing my job search progress with you so that we may support one another in this journey 🙂 So What Did I Learn? With Practice and Preparation, Networking Can Get Easier To illustrate, as one of the items on last week’s  “to do” list, I had to make […]

Filed Under: Career Guidance, Social Work, Social Work Career Tagged With: job search, networking

How To Start Your Job Search

By Dorlee

The Job Search Journey Begins Could you benefit from some useful job search tips? To that end, I thought you may find it helpful if I share with you on a regular basis the steps that I engage in to secure a clinical social work position. I also thought that we may be able to […]

Filed Under: Career Guidance, Social Work, Social Work Career Tagged With: interview questions, job search, networking

I Graduated! (Almost)

By Dorlee

There I was with all my peers receiving my “diploma;” however, I needed to complete six more credits to receive my MSW… How was I allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony before being truly finished? My school grants students who are short six or less credits a “dean’s exception” to “walk” at the graduation […]

Filed Under: Grad School Tagged With: ambivalence, dean's exception, employment, graduation, internship, LMSW, MSW

Eating Disorders Are About Relationships

By Dorlee

To help clients address their eating disorders, Jodi Rubin, ACSW, LCSW, tries to “be mindful of joining people in understanding the ways in which their eating disorder has served them and in doing this, am able to slowly shift into looking at the ways in which it is no longer serving them.” This week, I […]

Filed Under: Clinical Practice, Expert Interviews, Social Work Career Tagged With: career development, clinical social work, eating disorders, HAES, Jodi Rubin, relationships

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