Careers for psychology majors

Careers for psychology majors

Although some psychology majors head for graduate school in psychology or an unrelated field. The majority join the workforce immediately after graduation. Most report that the jobs they take after graduation are related to their psychology background.

The most common areas of employment for psychology majors are in the social services, including working as an administrator, serving as a counselor, and providing direct care. Some 20% of recipients of bachelor’s degree in psychology work in the social services or in some other form of public affairs. In addition, psychology majors often enter the fields of education or business or work for federal, state, and local government.

It is an emerging discipline some of the fields related to this discipline are as follows

Positions obtained by psychological majors

Business field

·     Administrative assistant

·     Affirmative action officer

·     Advertising trainee

·     Benefits manager

·     Claims specialist

·     Community relations officer

·     Customer relations

·     Data management

·     Employee recruitment

·     Employee counselor

·     Human resources coordinator

·     Labor relations manager/specialist

·     Loan officer

·     Management trainee

·     Marketing

·     Personal manager/officer

·     Product and services research

·     Program/events coordination

·     Public relations

·     Retail sales management

·     Sales representative

·     Staff training and development

·     Training officer

Educational / academic field

·     Administrative

·     Child-care provider

·     Child-care worker

·     Data management

·     Laboratory assistant

·     Parent/family education

·     Preschool teacher

·     Public opinion surveyor

·     Research assistant

·     Teaching assistant

Social field

·     Activities coordinator

·     Behavioral specialist

·     Career counselor

·     Case worker

·     Child protection worker

·     Clinical coordinator

·     Community outreach worker

·     Corrections officer

·     Counselor assistant

·     Crises intervention counselor

·     Employment counselor

·     Group home attendant

·     Occupational therapist

·     Probation officer

·     Program manager

·     Rehabilitation counselor

·     Residence counselor

·     Mental health assistant

·     Social service assistant

·     Social worker

·     Substance abuse counselor

·     Youth counselor

(Note)

The material provided in the post is taken from the book “UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY”   (10^th edition)

All credit goes to the author; Robert S. Feldman 

 (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)