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Social Professionals

ANZSCO 2724

Employed

16,000

Part-time share

40%

Female share

76%

Median weekly earnings

$2,113

Median age

45 yrs

Employment outlook

Growing

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia · ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing.

Social Professionals is a job in Australia. The job figures on this page come from Jobs and Skills Australia and the ABS Census, where they are published. The courses listed here lead to this job. Compare the fee, study mode, length, place, and how to get in before you enquire.

Courses linked to this job include Advanced Diploma of Translating, Diploma of Translating, Diploma of Interpreting, and Certificate IV in Wellbeing Science.

Jobs and Skills Australia rates the job outlook as Growing.

Jobs, part-time share, age, and pay appear on this page only when Jobs and Skills Australia or the ABS has published them for Social Professionals. A blank is a missing figure, not a pay of zero. The courses below are linked to this job. Open one to compare the fee, study mode, length, campus, and how to get in.

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About this career

Social Professionals research and study human behaviour, society and institutions from current and historical perspectives, and verbally render spoken statements, and transcribe text and recorded spoken material from one language into another.

What they typically do

  • Assembling historical data by consulting sources of information such as historical indexes and catalogues, archives, court records, diaries, newspaper files and other materials
  • Organising, authenticating, evaluating and interpreting historical, political, sociological, anthropological and linguistic data
  • Undertaking historical and cultural research into human activity, and preparing and presenting research findings
  • Providing simultaneous and consecutive verbal or signed renditions of speeches into another language
  • Rendering the meaning and feeling of what is said and signed into another language in the appropriate register and style in a range of settings such as courts, hospitals, schools, workplaces and conferences
  • Studying original texts and transcripts of recorded spoken material to comprehend subject matter and translating them into another language
  • Rendering the meaning and feeling of written material, such as literary, legal, technical and scientific texts, into another language in the appropriate register and style, so that it will read as an original piece rather than as a translation

States and territories

Share of workers by location

VIC
39.7%
NSW
23.7%
QLD
13.1%
WA
11.9%
ACT
5%
SA
3%
NT
2.1%
TAS
1.5%

Qualification pathways

These accredited qualifications can lead to a career as a Social Professionals.