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The Handbook then progresses readers through the key tasks involved in preparation for professional employment and information on how to manage self-care along the way. In the final chapters this Handbook provides information on accessing the Australian Social Work job market.  \nDevelopment of the Handbook was brought about by the desire to provide Social Work students and new graduates a profession-specific tool to guide them through the process of entering the Australian work force. The development journey of this Handbook was a challenge in mapping the contents to practice as the field of Social Work is so diverse. The resources provided here were publically available and have been included based upon either their focus upon the individual throughout their transition or because of the clarity they provide on key milestones in developing an individual Social Work career plan.  \nAcknowledgements  \nWe wish to acknowledge the development of the Handbook being completed in the main by Isabella Ciezkowski -an MSW student at University of South Australia-under the guidance of Miriam Hobson, South Australian Branch Office Manager.  \nFollow us on:  \nTable of Contents  \nStarting Where the Student Is: Reflections of a First-Year Social Work Intern 5  \nEight Tips for New Social Work Interns 9  \nMy Anxious Transition from Student to Fully Qualified Social Worker 13  \nKylie Stothers: An Indigenous Social Work Student Story 15  \nTen Essential Tips for Your Amazing Social Work Résumé 17  \nCover Letters for Social Workers: Get Yourself the Interview 23  \nSocial Work Interview Questions – Practice. Practice. Practice. 25  \nI Am Not Sure How To Tell You This: Delivering Unwelcome News 29  \n‘Tis the Season: Managing Client Gifts 33  \nTaking Care of Business and a Few Other Things along the Way 36  \nSelf-Care Assessment 38  \nThe AASW Horizon Career Centre: Plan Your Career 42  \nThe AASW Horizon Career Centre: Job Hunting for Social Workers 49  \nStarting Where the Student Is: Reflections of a First-Year Social Work Intern  \nBy Katherine Freeman  \nKatherine Freeman is a second-year graduate student at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, City University of New York. Katherine has a bachelor’s degree in international relations and Spanish from the State University of New York, College at Geneseo and has experience working with atrisk youth in the United States and Chile. Katherine’s current field placement is at an agency that provides trauma-focused therapy to children in the Bronx. She wrote this piece at the end of her first-year field placement.  \nFrom The New Social Worker, Spring 2014, Vol. 21, No. 2.  \nWe sit down. “My name is Katherine Freeman, and I’m the Social Work intern at the clinic.” She can hear my voice shaking. Is her eyebrow raised in suspicion, or am I just imagining that? “What can I help you with today?” Just dive in. There’s no other way, I think to myself. I lean forward onto the desk, smile, and am sure that I sit with an open posture to the client, giving her my undivided attention as we were taught in our Social Work Practice Lab.  \nI’m not sure if my experience as a first-year Social Work student exactly mirrors that of others. Actually, I believe it unfair to assume that there is one “standard”experience of a student in this field, as the beauty of this profession is that it attracts people with such a rich and diverse array of experience that it is impossible to identify a “typical” student.  \nThe one thing that binds us all together is the opportunity we were offered to recreate ourselves as professional Social Workers—delicately, and at times clu","cbCaiq2ZmYgi9pee","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq2ZmYgi9pee","pdf",908826,54,"English","# Preface\n# Acknowledgements\n# Starting Where the Student Is: Reflections of a First-Year Social Work Intern\n# Eight Tips for New Social Work Interns\n# My Anxious Transition from Student to Fully Qualified Social Worker\n# Kylie Stothers: An Indigenous Social Work Student Story\n# Ten Essential Tips for Your Amazing Social Work Résumé\n# Cover Letters for Social Workers: Get Yourself the Interview\n# Social Work Interview Questions – Practice. Practice. 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