CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Strategic Career Management is the lifelong process of investing resources into your career to maintain or increase your value in the workplace, undertake work that is personally satisfying, strive for work/life balance, and achieve financial security. The three pillars in my Strategic Career Management framework are clarity, credibility, and congruency.
Career Coaching Philosophy
Committed to eliminating the outdated, narrow view of social work by offering strategies to help social workers achieve long-term career fulfillment.
- Define social work career success on your own terms.
- Social workers do not take a vow of poverty.
- Social work skills are high-income skills.
- Social work skills are highly transferable.
- You deserve to do work that feeds your heart, mind, and wallet.
What Else Can I Do With My Social Work Degree?
My career goal is to empower social workers to believe that they can do anything that they want to do professionally with their social work degree.
- Love animals? Veterinary Social Work
- Want to support families with deployed heads of household? Military Social Work
- Concerned about environmental racism? Environmental Social Work
- Committed to eradicating disciplinary practices that contribute to the school to prison pipeline for minority students? Political Social Work
- Angered by elder abuse? Geriatric Social Work
DOWNLOAD: Social Work A to Z Lists
Video 2: What Can I Do With My Social Work Degree – Social Work A to Z Lists
Fields of Social Work A to Z part 2:
A – Administration and Management
B – Business Ownership
C – Child Health
D – Data Analysis
E – Emergency Preparedness
F – Food Systems Social Work *(Andrea Copeland)
G – Gender Equity
H – Human Relations
I – Immigration
J – Judicial Services
K – Knowledge Management
L – Legal Social Work *(Sylvia Dominguez-Santillan)
M – Maternal Health *(Chaitra Todur)
N – Neurology Social Work
O – Operations Management
P – Professional Development
Q – Qualitative Researcher
R – Risk Management
S – Substance Use and Abuse *(Tevenia Heatley)
T – Travel Social Work
U – Union Organizer
V – Veteran’s Justice *(Lee Furry)
W – Women’s Rights *(Carolina Leins-Sultan)
X – eX-Offender Reentry Programs
Y – Youth Counselor
Z – Zero Waste Coordinator
Set up a 20-minute consultation and let’s chat about how I can support you on your social work career journey.
Nicki Sanders, MSW, is committed to career development, professional development, and organizational development. As Founder and CEO of Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting, her mission is simple – to eliminate toxic workplaces by developing skilled, empathetic, and goal-oriented leaders who have the vision, support, and resources to create a culture where business prospers, and employees thrive individually and collectively. Nicki supports high-performing women of color in social work leadership in developing careers that feed their hearts, minds, and wallets. She has an extensive background in nonprofit management leading high-functioning, multi-disciplinary teams, volunteer recruitment and retention, and social impact programming. Nicki is an accomplished professor, coach, trainer, and group facilitator who has combined her gift for authentic relationships, Master of Social Work degree, and over 20 years of diverse work experience to create a life and career aligned with her values and purpose. She is a lover of nature, cupcakes, travel, and 80’s hip hop and R&B music.
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