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The purpose of the professional bachelor's degree is to qualify the students to act competently in a subsequent job situation. Anecdotal experience and research have shown that limited transfer between what is learned during the coursework and the subsequent professional practice. This article relates to actual development work, where a social worker education program is restructured and developed, with the aim of creating optimal transfer. The social worker must 'be able to co-operate, organize, coordinate, implement, evaluate and develop social efforts' in accordance with the curriculum. How does that look in practice? Based on interviews with newly-educated social workers, I have analyzed which competences the social worker (hereafter 'he') uses in practice, how these competences are developed, and how the student learns to apply the competences acquired in the educational program.

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