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The worlds of social work and HR, at a glance, may seem distant and unrelated. Where a social worker deals with drug addicts, the recently paroled, families on the brink of separation—just to name a few contexts—HR professionals concern themselves primarily with corporate policies.
Yet these professionals do feature an overlap of skills that many people may not at first realize. It is, in fact, for this reason that many businesses are happy to hire HR professionals with an education background in social work.
In this article, we take a look at what HR professionals can learn from social workers