India’s new Companies Act 2013 urges corporations to actively take up social causes by making corporate social responsibility (CSR) statutory. If companies are to kickstart new or augment existing CSR activities seriously, career opportunities for those in the social sector are bound to open up. While human resources as a specialisation is offered in most social work postgraduate courses, students who take up community development, child welfare or clinical development may also be roped in by companies, depending on the activities businesses choose to undertake
