Psychology

bannexy · Post by **bannexy** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:50 am

What kind of job in psychology can you get with a bachelor of arts in psychology? Hi, I got my bachelor of arts in psychology and minor in criminal justice a couple of months ago. I was planning to go to grad school to get a doctorate but I wanted to get work experience in the psychology field before I make that kind of commitment. Are there psychology jobs that you can get with a bachelor of arts in psychology? Any psychology job at all?

codeStep · Post by **codeStep** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:25 am

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Sexual_Chocolate · Post by **Sexual_Chocolate** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:33 am

interior decorator

wub · Post by **wub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:45 am

bannexy wrote:What kind of job in psychology can you get with a bachelor of arts in psychology?

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wub · Post by **wub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:01 am

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wub · Post by **wub** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:08 am

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dubfordessert · Post by **dubfordessert** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:22 am

research assistant
social care
you could get experience in a school (i.e. as a TA), and move on to working as a child or educational psychologist

to be honest, this seems like the sort of thing you should have been googling before you started your degree

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:49 am

Psychology teacher

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:51 am

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/what_do_grad ... hology.htm

test_recordings · Post by **test_recordings** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:41 pm

jameshk wrote:Psychology teacher

Basically, fuck all except become a primary school teacher (you need a BSc for high schools and above) or anything else that requires any general degree. Even most relevant areas like social care won't require you to have a degree, just extra training (that is until the NHS farms out the training to shitty university courses like they did for nursing). If you see a job you like where having a degree doesn't make you any more special try make what you've learnt relevant to how you can apply it, especially with a BA which is more practice orientated, am I right?

I graduated with a BSc last year and it's pretty annoying how little you can do with it without having to do at least another year of training or a masters. Don't regret it in the slightest though, psychology is so fucking useful in general you'd be dumb to deny it. I find it really funny how even scientists can refuse to believe they aren't necessarily being objective without even bothering to consider it (hence being objective about their work) yet head-bangingly frustrating at the same time.

bright maroon · Post by **bright maroon** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:37 pm

I was going to say that this is an incredibly stupid question for someone with a degree...

but then I realized that could be really mean...

you may have mean't - what are some other types of jobs that are not immediatly obvious...

...and then I started laughing.

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:46 pm

you might be able to be a high school counselor.
or just any kind of counselor who can give advice, but no drugz

Huts · Post by **Huts** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:57 pm

Although I'm going for a BS not a BA in psych, this is depressing to read..

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:21 pm

Do post-grad bro. Its worth it

test_recordings · Post by **test_recordings** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:55 pm

kidshuffle wrote:Do post-grad bro. Its worth it

It's not worth it not to, it seems.

Shame I don't have £10,000 lying about or the will to take out a loan that will ultimately cost me £15,000 for the same thing!

Huts wrote:Although I'm going for a BS not a BA in psych, this is depressing to read..

It's the way the world works now though, bachelor's degrees are basically the new UK A-Levels/USA high school diplomas because so many people have them and people go for the sake of it rather to actually focus on any particular area (I know a guy doing 'computing' - essentially a 3 year, ~£20,000 course on how to do admin on the computer). Companies are also shifting the onus for training on to potential appplicants rather than doing it in-house (at least in the UK and America - Japan still trains on the job and post-grad study is consquently extremely rare, don't know about the rest of the world). It pissed me off that my university was trying to teach me employability skills during my degree in place of something academically useful rather than something I already fucking knew

It's like internships, organisations are building free labour in to their business plans simply because they can. It's completely fuckry and hopefully people will either hold back from doing it or employers will find their conscience and stop being so unfair...

jigglypuff · Post by **jigglypuff** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:19 pm

sorry to break into ya mate but if you hadn't done any work placements or internships its looking pretty poor for well paying jobs straight away. Most places just want a degree so that you don't end up in the first binned pile. Then it goes on to experience if you got none then binned. they keep narrowing it down till theres only a couple left. Just be glad you got a degree.

jazzamataz · Post by **jazzamataz** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:41 pm

I've given up looking for work in Psych for the time being. I've even had a year's
working experience and can't get a call back.

(Btw to the guys that offered me a hand the other week - thanks, I was mega busy
last week - had to attend a training course for my new job. I shall be getting in contact
ASAP - needed some time to sit down and write decent correspondence and just not
had the time.)

Managed to get myself a job last week on the train services. I'll be applying to
volunteer on my days off to keep building my experience and will try again in the future.
In fact, all the transport services are looking for people to work in a variety of positions
so get your application in and get working. Any funds is better than nothing.

Also, if you're serious about a career in Psych, you'll NEED to do a post-grad (PGDip, MSc,
PhD). Which is pretty much what i've been told by the CAB and Jobseekers, as well as
places I've applied to. My advice, take anything else at the moment and volunteer. The
goalposts have truly shifted in the last 5 years, which is a nightmare for people with JUST
a degree trying to break into the field. That's not even enough to get on a training course.
These places want you to be fully qualified before you take their training courses (which as
redundant as it sounds, means they get as close to a 100% pass rate as possible).

I've decided I'm also going to bake bread and sell it in my spare time too.
I'm going to try and get a patch at Borough market or something like that.
It's ridiculously therapeutic (which is good when you're stressed about not working.)

kay · Post by **kay** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:45 pm

Borough market's ridiculously difficult to get a stall at, or so I've heard.

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