Any psych majors here? Good or bad idea? Will it get me good job ?
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What kind of job? I have a master’s in Experimental Psychology and a BA in general psychology. Unless you want to go to graduate school, I feel like jobs are limited (I’ve found this to be true even at the master’s level). If you want to get a counseling degree, I think there is a market for that, but there are a lot of counselors out there.
One of my D’s friends was a psych major and got a job in the Human Resources Dept. of a company. My D majored in psych. and is now in grad school.
Majors, in and of themselves, don’t usually get you jobs. What gets you a job are your skills and experiences, particularly with liberal arts and sciences majors.
I don’t think jobs are limited with a psychology degree, but you have to think broadly about what psychology is related to. happy1 already mentioned human resources; there’s also marketing/market research, human factors/user experience research, industrial-organizational/personnel psychology (related to HR), human services, consulting, college student life, research assistant at think tanks and NGOs - and that’s only if you consider things that are sort of closely related to what people traditionally think of in psychology. A psychologist could be a program manager at a tech company or a social science statistician or a city manager with the right skills and internships/jobs.