Careers in Psychology

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Careers in Psychology
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Jobs with a Psych B.A.

• Community Social Services
• Human services worker
• Social worker
• Program director
• Volunteer coordinator
• Human Resources
• Employee development
• Training coordinator
• Recruiter
• Education
• Child care worker
• Peace corps
• Teachers aide
• Scientific Research
• Opinion survey researcher

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• Residential Care
• For developmentally delayed
• For delinquents
• For the elderly
• Management Business
• Banking
• Sales
• Public relations
• Restaurant hotel
• Student Affairs/Services
• Admissions
• Career services
• Residential life
• Student activities
• Alumni/development
• Probation/Parole/Law enforcement
• Parole officer
• Correction officer
• Juvenile intake worker

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Money! (B.A.)very roughly. .

• Overall Average 26-27
• Human Services - 19K
• Management - 26K
• Sales - 26K
• Student Affairs - 22K
• Corrections/probation/parole/law enforcement -
  23K
• Customer Service - 25K
• Child Youth Care - 13-19K
• Human Resources - 24-26K

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Whats the competition?

• EVERY YEAR
• 70,000 psychology bachelors degrees
• 10,000 new masters degree graduates
• 3,000 new doctoral degree graduates

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Graduate Degrees

• M.A./M.S.
• School psych
• MFT
• MSW
• I/O psych
• rehab counseling, guidance counseling, others
• Doctorates
• Ph.D.
• PsyD
• EdD Doctorate in Education

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Clinical Degrees

• Masters of Social Work (MSW), M.A. in
  counseling,MFT,M.A. in School Psychology
• PsyD practitioners much less research.
• MD psychiatry
• Counseling Clinical 46 of psych doctorates
• PhD Counseling Psychology
• PhD Clinical Psychology

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Getting Into Graduate School Qualitative
Data(in order of importance)

• Grades and GREs
• Letters of recommendation
• Research experience
• Work experience
• Clinically related public service
• Extracurricular activity
• Interview (if applicable)
• Personal statements

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Getting In to Grad School

• Get two books
• Getting In and Graduate Study in Psychology
• Study for GRE!!!
• Get involved in research
• Join a research team
• Participate in Psych Honors
• (psych.csufresno.edu/honors)
• Participation in COR (Career Opportunities in
  Research
• (psych.csufresno.edu/cor

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After Graduation

• 50 of research psychologists work at
  universities or colleges

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Careers in Psychology

• Dollars and Sense

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After Graduation

• 50 of research psychologists work at
  universities or colleges

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Want More Money?

• Become an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist
• 1999 90K (median) with 13 yrs experience
• Consulting firms (42), business/industrial
  settings (31), self-employed in business (14)

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Other high-paying doctoral positions

• Research administration/educational
  administraction
• Research 83.5K (16yrs)
• Education 82.5 (22 yrs)

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Psych Degrees Salaries

• School psychologists - 71K (20 yrs experience)
• Clinical psychologists - 65K (16 yrs)
• Counseling psychologists - 60K (15 yrs)
• Doctorate in Social Work - 40K
• Psychologists Research positions - 60k (10
  yrs)
• Faculty 52K (15 yrs)

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Cal State University Professors

• Starting 45K
• Ending 93K

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Gettin Paid Psych Degrees

• Bachelors level 26K (Range 18K-45k)
• Masters level (1997) 26K
• Doctoral level 36K