Every profession requires the existence of specific organization and functioning regulations.The social worker represents the expert that is meant to identify the beneficiary�s problem and provide the necessary circumstance to resolve, improve or at least maintain it under control. Any national social assistance system knows a certain tradition. The evolution of the social assistance system depends on the country�s economic level, on the affiliation and on the way in which the necessary skills were initially acquired by the social workers, no matter what type of trainer they might have had. The similarity of the curricula which has to be studied in order to acquire the skills, of the number of the classes focusing on theory as compared to those focusing on practice and, last but not least, of the accessibility to the social work profession is understandable in the case of the states that are part of the European Union. However, it is inherent that the national standards should establish certain professional stages for the social worker in each country, and the practice differs not only between countries but also within each of them, depending on criteria such as the beneficiaries� origin in the urban/rural regions, aging population regions, potentially criminogenic areas, etc. This article aims at detailing the peculiarities of the career in social work in France and Romania.

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