• A wide variety of career options:
  • What Can You Do With a BA in Psychology?
  • Career Options with Your Psychology Degree
• The value of your degree:
  • The Covert Curriculum: The Lifelong Learning Skills You Can Learn in College
  • I'm Getting My Bachelor's Degree in Psychology--What Can I Do With It?
  • Job Skills Valued by Employers Who Interview Psychology Majors
• Enhancing your career development:
  • What Can I Do with a Major in ________?
  • How Do I Maximize My Chances of Getting a Good Job With an Undergraduate Psychology Degree?

If you are majoring in psychology and want to consider a wide variety of career possibilities, start by taking a career assessment test and then explore the career profile resources provided above. One of the books described below might be useful - they are available for you to read at the Career Resource Library and in the Wells Library Career Reference Collection.

• Majoring in Psych?: Career Options for Psychology Undergraduates (4th Edition). This student-friendly guide looks at psychology as both a discipline and a liberal arts degree from a career perspective and shows students how they can take an early and active role in shaping their professional paths.
• Great Jobs for Psychology Majors (3rd edition). Explore the possibilities your major creates, narrow down your options and present a psychology major as a workplace asset during an interview. Read detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search that will allow you to use your major in the real world.

Resources for students considering a career in psychology or neuroscience:

If you are considering a career as a psychologist or neuroscientist, start by taking a career assessment test and then explore the career profile resources provided above. The resources below may be of interest to you:

• Real People. Real Jobs. Real Rewards, What Can You Do with a Major in Psychology? Advice on college and curriculum choices--courses, internships.... Profiles of real graduates, their jobs, and how they got them. Inside, real-life information from an art therapist, a sports psychologist, a forensic psychologist, a school psychologist, a corporate psychologist, and a community psychologist. Overviews of typical salary levels, hours, and work environments.
• Download Psychology: Scientific Problem Solvers: Careers for the 21st Century from the American Psychological Association website if you are interested in a career as a psychologist!
• Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You is a comprehensive anthology in which authors selected for their distinction in their chosen careers offer their professional -- and personal -- perspectives on 19 different graduate-level careers in psychology, including (to name only a few) academia, clinical psychology, health and school psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and government service. Each chapter discusses the nature of the career, its advantages and disadvantages, how to prepare for it, typical activities, ranges of financial compensation, opportunities for employment, and the personal attributes needed for success in the career. "Day in the life" discussions give readers a glimpse into the prosaic realities, challenges, and rewards of each career that the lab or lecture hall rarely provides.
• A search of the Career Resource Library Catalog using the keyword "psychology" turned up: Careers in Psychology - Opportunities in a Changing World; Your Career in Psychology: Clinical and Counseling Psychology; The Helping Professions: A Careers Sourcebook; and Opportunities in Social Science Careers.