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Career Resources
Developed by Dr. Larry Upton, Visiting Professor of Psychology
Lehigh University, August 2004. (updated April 2009)

Books: Career Opportunities

DeGalan, J., & Lambert, S. (1995). Great jobs for psychology majors. Chicago: VGM Career Horizons.

Kuther, T. L. (2003). The psychology major's handbook. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Kuther, T. L., & Morgan, R. D. (2004). Careers in psychology: Opportunities in a changing world. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
[This book has 9 chapters on different areas of psychology. Each chapter has a section describing "Opportunities with a Bachelor's Degree" and a section for "Opportunities with a Graduate Degree."]

Landrum, E., Davis, S., & Landrum, T. (2000). The psychology major: Career options and strategies for success. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Morgan, B.L., & Korschgen, A.J. (2001). Majoring in psych? Career options for psychology undergraduates (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Sternberg, R. J. (1997). Career paths in psychology: Where your degree can take you. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [Each chapter chronicles a psychologist who has achieved success in his or her field; the psychologists discuss their work, how they got started, and how students can get started in their field.]

Video Resources: Career Opportunities

Video produced by the American Psychological Association. Psychology: Scientific problem solvers, careers for the 21st century. Running time 13:16. (also see related website)

Web Resources: Career Opportunities in Psychology
General and Overviews

APA Website for Students
Just about everything you need to know about careers (as well as getting into graduate school) is available at the website of the American Psychological Association.

Brochure for Psychology: Scientific Problem Solvers, Careers for the 21st Century (companion site to video).
Brochure describes the field of psychology, including employment settings, job outlook, and career preparation.

Careers in Psychology
Dr. Margaret (Marky) Lloyd offers information on bachelor's level and graduate level careers in psychology, and how to prepare for them.

Pursuing Psychology Career Page
Dr. Linda Walsh provides a list of links to materials on career development and resources for psychology majors.

Majoring in Psychology, Going to Graduate School, Starting a Career
Good advice from clinical psychologist, Dr. Lynn Friedman.

Non-academic Careers in Psychology
Website provides links to case studies of psychologists working in interesting jobs outside of academia.

Alternative Careers in Psychology, Career Paths Less Traveled
Article from the APA Monitor profiles the unusual careers of 21 recent graduates of doctoral programs in psychology.

Preparing for a Career in Psychology
Articles published in Eye on Psi Chi

I'm getting my bachelor's degree in psychology - what can I do with it?

Web Resources: Careers by Field
Fields of Psychology

A variety of articles, published by Psi Chi
Describe specialty areas in psychology

Helping Professions, Clinical Psychology,
Counseling Psychology, School Psychology

What is Clinical Psychology?

Counseling Psychology: Making Lives Better

Clinical Versus Counseling Psychology: What's the Diff?

Appreciating the PsyD: The Facts

Selections from A Complete Guide to the Advanced Study
in the Profession of School Psychology

Health Psychology, Rehabilitation,
Exercise and Sport Psychology

Sports Psychology Oversite

Divisions of Sport Psychology

Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management

Industrial-organizational psychology:
The psychology of people working together. Eye on Psi Chi.

Careers in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Society for Human Resource Management

Consumer Psychology, Marketing, Public Relations

What is consumer psychology? Eye on Psi Chi

The Psychology of Consumers: Consumer Behavior and Marketing

Careers in Consumer Psychology

A hot market for social scientists in market research.
Chronicle of Higher Education.

Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology and the Law,
Military Psychology

What is a Personality/Social Psychologist?

Careers and Training in Psychology and Law

Introduction to Military Psychology: An Overview

Human Factors, Environmental Psychology, Quantitative Psychology

Human factors/ergonomics:
Using psychology to make a better and safer world. Eye on Psi Chi.

Current Trends in Environmental Psychology

Careers in Environmental Psychology

The assessment professional:
Making a difference in the 21st century. Eye on Psi Chi.

Data Mining: What Is Data Mining?

More Data Mining

Human Development, Aging

Careers in Aging

Biological Psychology, Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology Homepage

Interesting Careers, Non-traditional Jobs

APA "AN INTERESTING CAREER IN PSYCHOLOGY" series
The APA Science Directorate sponsors a series of articles written by people with psychology degrees who are working in interesting and unusual careers outside of academia.

Here is a sample of some of the listings you will find in the "interesting careers" series:

Acquisitions editor (book publishing)

A research psychologist in a medical school

Research director for a non-profit organization

Policy scientist as an independent consultant

International market research consultant

Trial consultant

Social science analyst in the public sector

Human-computer interface designer

Cognitive and I/O psychologists in technology industry

Human factors psychologist in aviation

Aviation human factors practitioner

Organizational development consultant

APS "NON-TRADITIONAL JOBS" SERIES
In 2003, the American Psychological Society published a series of articles written by APS members who were working in non-traditional settings (i.e., outside traditional psychology departments). The series of 37 articles appeared in the 2003 May-November issues of the APS Observer.

The titles and URLs for each of the individual articles also appear below.

No Starving Artist, Psychologist Collaborates in Advertising

"Quantitative Methods Travel Well" from Educational Psych to Nursing

Teaching Dentists to Treat People, Not Teeth

Adventures of an Experimental Psychologist in Medical Imaging

An Unplanned Career in Planning

"Wild Mice Are Smarter than I"

Educational Study Takes on New Text with Semiotics

Crossing Disciplines, Languages, and Borders

Interdisciplinary is Norm at Carnegie Mellon

Promoting Academic Excellence

Hospitality is Part of My Job

Life in a Multidisciplinary Environment

Holding onto Psychology in Leisure Studies

Psychology in Business Schools

Creating an Identity for Sports Psychology

Applying Scientific Psychology to Questions of Law

Combining Psychological Science and Nursing
to Promote Patient Adherence

Psychologist Turned Cantor

The Long Winding Road

Intellectual Diversity in Marketing

The Interaction Between Places and Faces

Psychologist as Fish Out of Water

Who Am I?

Re-engineering Social Encounters

A Vision of Interdisciplinary Research

Ergo, Ergonomics

Food for Thought: A Career in Sensory Evaluation and
Consumer Research

Shifting Focus: The Experience of a Traditional Academic in a Professional School

Workout Tips from the Exercise and Sport Science Department

The Many Roles of a Research Psychologist in a Medical School

From Psychology to Allied Health: An Interdisciplinary Vision

Psychology in a Community-Based Medical School

The Osteopathic Path

An Education in Action Research

Isn't That Spatial

Giving Psychology the Business

Medical School Academics



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