• Early education facilities (crèche, after-school care centre, daycare centre)
• School social work
• Youth leisure centres
• Youth education centres
• Adventure playgrounds
• Leisure and adventure education programmes, scouts
• International youth work
• Residential groups, hostels
• Educational support
• Outpatient care
• Crisis intervention centres
• Intensive individual educational support
• Work as a youth education officer
• Youth welfare office (e.g. general social services)
• Recreational and rehabilitation programmes for children and young people
• Organisation of social training courses (e.g. mediation, anti-aggression training)
• Child protection centres, - Confederation
• Offender support, probation services
• Work, school and family-related youth work

• School social work
• School psychology service
• Career guidance
• Work as an employment agency/case manager at the employment agency, Arge or job centre
• Youth vocational assistance (e.g. support for young people in vocational preparation programmes).
• Youth workshops
• Implementation of projects focussing on "prevention" at schools (e.g. on the topics of "media", "drugs and alcohol" and "violence")

• Educational counselling
• Counselling in marriage, family and partnership issues
• Marriage counselling
• Pregnancy counselling
• Pregnancy conflict counselling
• Sexual counselling
• Counselling services for people in special circumstances (e.g. homelessness, unemployment)
• Psychological counselling centres for parents, children and young people
• Counselling for bullying
• Migration/integration counselling (e.g. for ethnic German immigrants, asylum seekers, people with a migration background)
• Counselling for students
• Training and career guidance
• Career counselling
• Drug and addiction counselling
• Legal counselling
• Social law counselling
• Debtor and insolvency counselling
• Counselling for sexual abuse and other violence
• Counselling for senior citizens
• Social psychiatric counselling centres
• Counselling for impaired and chronically ill people
• Business start-up counselling
• Business counselling
• Coaching for people in various life situations
• Counselling with the aim of rehabilitating people in various life situations (e.g. illness, long-term unemployment)
• Victim-offender mediation

• Parent and family counselling
• Family support service
• Socio-educational family support
• Multi-generation centres
• Leisure and adventure education programmes
• Family education centre
• Neighbourhood projects/community work
• General Social Services (ASD)/Youth Welfare Office
• Family holidays/leisure activities

• Universities and colleges
• Non-university research institutions
• Universities of Applied Sciences
• Socio-educational youth research

• Universities and colleges
• Coaching on various topics (e.g. job applications, conflict management)
• Adult education
• General, academic and political further education
• Media education
• Cultural work
• Universities of applied sciences
• Courses, lectures and workshops in further education institutions
• Extracurricular educational programmes (design and implementation)
• Women's education work
• Youth cultural education

• Management and personnel consulting
• Personnel development
• Corporate social counselling
• Personnel management
• Organisational development
• In-house training and further education
• Company addiction counselling

• Supervision
• Mediation
• Conflict resolution
• Gerontology
• Equal Opportunities Offices
• media
• Social work in the Bundeswehr
• Social services in hospitals
• Psychiatry
• Health promotion
• Anti-stress training
• Animal-assisted pedagogy

• Tourism
• Market and opinion research
• Journalism
• Administration
• museum
• Press and public relations
• Marketing/Advertising
• Political parties
• Publishers

Status:

• Research assistant
• Research assistant
• Teaching staff for special tasks, junior professorship, professorship, etc.

Activities:

• Teaching
• Research and publication
• Organisation, planning, administration

Status:

• Project-related or temporary employment
• Permanent or freelance employee
• Work on a fee basis/part-time

Activities:

• Teaching
• Research and publication
• Organisation, planning, administration

Status:

• Permanent or freelance employee

Activities:

Market and opinion research is a growth market characterised by technologisation and internationalisation

• Customer support and counselling
• Preparation of expert reports
• Field work (concrete data collection), research (conception), evaluation and analysis

Example print journalism

Status:

• Diverse differentiations: Editor-in-chief, head of department, (photo) editor, reporter Head of field office
• Self-employed, freelancer
• Permanent or freelance employee (e.g. editor, trainee)

Activities:

• Editorial work
• Research work
• Writing own articles, reports etc.
• Organisation, checking and coordination of work processes and contributions
• Customer care and acquisition

Status:

• Permanent or freelance employee
• Advisor, consultant or (press) spokesperson

Activities:

Very diverse and dependent on the client and target group. Some examples:

• Management of communication processes
• Creation and consolidation of images/messages in the public sphere, whereby, in contrast to advertising, the mind and not the emotions are addressed
• Conveying trust, credibility and transparency while keeping internal strategies and secrets confidential
• Promoting dialogue between external and internal groups, but also within groups
• Project management (PR conception, implementation, evaluation)
• Preparation of expertises, reports, publications, etc.
• Organisation and coordination of events, workshops, seminars

In the public sector, in the private sector as well as in clubs, associations, interest groups, NGOs, etc. in almost all functional areas of society: Business, labour, career choice, health, family, environment, politics, technology, road safety, art, culture, religion, etc.

Status:

• Permanent, temporary, project or fee-based employee
• Self-employed service provider

Activities:

Various forms of counselling and fields of activity are possible:

• Client-centred (academic appointment, study, career counselling, counselling for self-help groups) and/or institution-centred counselling (organisational and management counselling, policy and methodological counselling).
• Psychological counselling and supervision (only possible with additional training)

Status:

• Permanent or temporary employee
• Work on a fee basis or project-related collaboration
• Self-employed service provider

Activities:

• Tour guide
• Author of a travel guide
• Tourism management
• Concept for the protection of cultures
• Consultancy on "soft tourism

Status:

• Permanent or temporary employee

Activities:

• Coordination of programmes and concepts
• Development and realisation of concepts
• Quality control and management
• Initiating, promoting and optimising international cooperation
• Planning, implementing and evaluating development cooperation, peace work and research

Status:

• Permanent or temporary employee
• Work on a fee basis

Activities:

• Concept development and realisation of courses, seminars, workshops
• Intercultural coaching
• Quality control and management
• Evaluation of events

Status:

• Permanent or temporary employee Work on a fee basis or project-related collaboration

Activities:

• Counselling and support
• Planning, organisation and implementation of seminars and events
• Project planning
• Quality control and management
• Administrative activities

Status:

• Permanent, fixed-term, project or fee-based employee

Activities:

Dependent on the institution and the orientation. Some examples:

• Association work
• Planning, organisation and implementation of events, readings and further education courses
• Cultural management: planning and implementing cultural exchange initiatives, designing and realising cultural events and concepts
• Cultural mediation, e.g. in migration and refugee work
• Coordination and planning of appointments, events and personal assistance
• Public relations and lobbying
• Research work and thorough familiarisation with specific topics

Status:

• Self-employed

Activities:

The specific activities depend on the services, ideas or products offered. Some examples:

• Consultancy and coaching
• Organisation Planning and implementation of projects
• Optimisation of work processes