What kind of job can I get with a bachelor' s degree in psychology?

Answer 1

I'm guessing a social worker.

Answer 2

An interesting angle would be to try getting into journalism as a freelance. Certainly those who have trained in this field are most likely to get the 'key' jobs, but many quality newspapers, magazines and electronic media organizations have a range of specialists who work for them in a consulting role. These positions often pay very well.

You could try putting a propostion to some magazines to start with, especially those that do not have a 'resident' psychologist. They often have readers who write in with problems and not all of them are purely MD-style medical. A qualified psychologist's answers would lend clout and help to improve the mag's readership and they are always looking for that.

Another possibility would be to look out for posts as a counsellor within private or public sector organizations. Again, they want qualified people and will often take on someone for just a few hours per week -- but at pretty attractive rates. But don't wait until a position appears in the press' Employment columns; around 50% of top-quality jobs are never avertised because the management much prefer to first see what CV's and approach letters they have on file and interview from those. So, an approach letter is a good way to start your search.

It would be possible to combine the two positions so a lot of the time you could work from home, instead of traveling into an office every day.

Good luck,

Lenky.

Answer 3

Seriously, you could look for jobs in journalism, police, teaching (you could easily teach high school English or history, for example), or virtually any job that does not require a specific college degree. About the only thing you can't do is a job that requires a specific college degree, such as medicine, law, architecture and engineering.

A lot depends on what you like to do or what you think you'd like to do. A friend of mine has a BA in psychology and he's now an airline pilot. If it was me, I'd look for something in journalism or maybe some substitute teaching.

Answer 4

If you are a native English speaker you can teach English in most of Asia. You will not get rich, but the salary in almost any country is enough to get by on easily. The best part is you can travel and explore Asia easily. Teachers get lots of long weekends and usualy at least four weeks vacation a year...even in the first year. Right now there are thousands of jobs since Korea booted out so many teachers wityh dicey credentials. The downside is you probably won't make enough money to save for the future or to pay off school loans. It a way to travel and live in Asia if you are debt free.

Answer 5

Please excuse any type-o's as the spell check was not working at the time of posting!

There are many jobs that can be had with a BA in Psych. You can work in any area of bx health. You can work as a vocational rehabilitation case manager for mentally/physically handicapped people, you can work in a woman's shelter in the crisis center, you can work as a volunteer (and possibly paid) rape crisis advocate that goes to hospitals and helps when the crisis has just occurred. You can work in a guidance clinic as a case manager, but then, at the same time, get to use the skills of psychology to help the clients that can grasp your ideas (or of course begin at their motivational level and move up as they do), you can work in a drug and alcohol treatment unit as a tech, you can work in a mental hospital as a tech (not sure if they let you do the actual evals without at least a MA. You can work in a residential treatment center for adolescents. There should even be the opportunity to work WITH or under the supervision of licensed counselors administering (but not evaluating of course) psych testing (such as the current version of the MMPI).

If you have the hx of working with any case management at all or any mixture of social work AND psych then you will be that much better off when looking for a job. Any person in any "helping" profession would find it much more advantagous to seek at least getting their Master's in their field of choice! I encourage taking the extra two years and getting the Master's Degree. There are programs out there that last only 1 to 1 1/2 yrs depending upon where you go.

My sis-in-law got her degree in Psych (BA) and didn't do anything with it. I got my degree (BA) in Social Work and have done a lot with it.

I encourage you to figure out exactly what it is you want to do with the degree. If you want to do research for the rest of your life, getting grants and studying people and getting published, you need to have a MA. If you want to become a therapist, then you need to have at least an MA (in most any state I believe). You can go onto to get your Ph.D. but then I am still not sure if you can prescribe anti-depressants/psychotics/anxiety meds.

One job/career area that seems to be really popular (in TX anyway) is the kind that combine psych and being an RN. The hospital setting may be a perfect setting for you.

KNOW what you want to do with a degree in Psychology. KNOW why you are getting that degree. (or why you already have it and don't know what to do with it!) KNOW what population you want to work with and for that matter know what populations you absolutely CANNOT work with! KNOW if you want to work alone or with a "team". Alone-research. Team-most any other jobs.

Last but certainly not least-look in the paper and online (local newspaper and other job search engines) to find out what jobs are out there and what the basic requirements are for those jobs.

Here are some links to help you out too!
http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_68.asp#General
http://www.apa.org/ed/wanttobecome.html (which BTW this is an excellent resource on ANYTHING psychology! You might as well memorize APA format writing right now!)
http://www.usi.edu/libarts/psychology/bachelors_degree.asp
http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/bachpsy2.html
http://www.psy.jhu.edu/undergrad/careers.html

and this looks like an excellent resource with several other links:

http://academics.smcvt.edu/psych/bachjob.htm

GOOD LUCK!!! :)

Answer 6

One where you can pretend to help people while making them worse.

Answer 7

MC DONALDS OR BURGER KING OR KFC