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are beginning their careers, or changing their positions, but especial
interest is taken in finding larger opportunities for women of long
experience and thoroughly tested efficiency.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The Bureau is not a commercial agency but
a co-operative organization yielding no profits to anyone connected
with it. I t is incorporated under the laws of the State of New York.
For the first year the funds necessary for the work have been provided
by contributions from members of the co-operating organizations.
Sound growth demands, however, that it become self-supporting as
soon as possible. I f its work develops so well as to yield *a profit
the money will be used for the better accomplishment of its purposes.
In determining the fees to be charged to applicants the directors aim
to make the amount as low as seems consistent with the possibility
of ultimate self-support.

DEPARTMENT FOR SOCIAL WORKERS OF T H E INTER-
COLLEGIATE BUREAU OF OCCUPATIONS

From The Agency Circular

Social work is a changing profession. New organizations develop
to meet newly discovered needs, and positions change their scope with
changes in the social program. Therefore it is not possible to out-
line definitely the types of work. Only a suggestion can be given
of some of the present activities of societies employing paid workers.
These include charity organization, family treatment and relief,
promotion of public health and sanitation, treatment and prevention
of disease, organized effort on behalf of the child at work, at school,
as dependent or delinquent, provision for the treatment of offenders
by the courts and by probation officers, the study of industrial con-
ditions and of immigration problems, recreation, settlement work,
and neighborhood activities.

In connection with such work executive secretaries, superintend-
ents, agents, investigators and assistants of various kinds are needed.

As the standard of efficiency has been raised in the field of pro-
fessional social work, it has become increasingly difficult and unde-
sirable to enter this occupation without definite training or experience.
The standard for registration in the Department for Social Workers
requires either one or more of the following qualifications:—(1) a
college education, (2) a year's course in a professional school which
offers training for social work, (3) a year's experience as a paid
social worker. To those who cannot meet these requirements the