Career Opportunities

General U of C Resources:

Psychology Specific Resources:

Here are some websites that provide information on the range of opportunities and resources that exist for psychology majors. These links provide information on both obtaining a full-time job straight out of undergrad and applying to graduate school.

Jobs with a Bachelor’s Degree: A bachelor’s degree in psychology is good preparation for a variety of entry-level careers such as education, marketing, sales, advertising, managerial positions, human resources management, personnel, real-estate and more.

Graduate Training: Psychology majors have gone onto graduate schools not only for psychology, but also for medicine, business education and more. In psychology, there are several types of graduate programs, including biopsychological, clinical, cognitive, counseling, developmental, experimental, organizational, school & social psychology.

Here are some additional websites that will provide some ideas on how to prepare for the above careers as an undergraduate.

Career Opportunities

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Full-Time Jobs After Graduation

Post-Graduation Full Time Jobs
Information, services, and resources designed to assist 4th year students in finding a job with a special emphasis on the On-Campus Recruiting Program.

Positions available in any company:

These are some examples of potential positions for psychology majors that exist in many companies ranging from the food industry to insurance companies.

Human Resources

Marketing

More information on beginning a career in Marketing:

Sales

Some Psychology Specific Career Opportunities

Applied/ Law/ Consumer / Politics

Computer / Decision Making:

This is a catch-all category. Please also see nonprofits & human rights at https://caps.uchicago.edu/resourcecenter/nonprofit.html.

See also the CAPS pathfinder on this topic at
http://caps.uchicago.edu/resources/handoutsindex.html

Career Resource Guides
http://www.idealist.org/resource_guides/index.html
The Idealist.org College and University Career Services Advisory Board, comprised of leading career services professionals with a special commitment to nonprofit and socially responsible careers, developed this series of guides about working in the nonprofit sector. The guides were written with college students in mind, but will be useful to recent graduates and others looking to begin a career in the nonprofit sector. Each guide is complemented by a series of interviews with various professionals in the field.

Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies
http://pawss.hampshire.edu/

Psychologists in Public Service
http://www.apa.org/about/division/div18.html

Counseling / Behavior Therapy:

Federation of Behavioral, Psychological & Cognitive Sciences –

http://www.thefederationonline.org/

Society of Clinical Psychology – www.apa.org/about/division/div12.html

Counseling Psychology – http://www.apa.org/about/division/div17.html

The International Society for Research on Aggression – http://www.israsociety.com/

Education (Primary and Secondary):

Career Center : Action Without Borders
http://www.idealist.org/resource_guides/guide_k12_intro.html
An excellent guide to careers in K-12 teaching. From Idealist.org, a major online center for information about nonprofit careers.

Carney Sandoe & Associates
http://www.csa-teach.com/
Providers of recruitment, search and strategic consulting services to independent schools.

Certification Requirements for 50 States
http://www.uky.edu/Education/TEP/usacert.html
This site provides links to teaching certification requirements for each state. It also includes links to online position announcements and other related sites. From the University of Kentucky College of Education.

Chicago Public Schools Site
http://www.cps.k12.il.us
Lists of Chicago Public Schools including Charter Schools. Information about substitute teaching.

Educational Resources Group
http://www.ergteach.com/
An organization that places both beginning and experienced teachers in the job market. Has a section on job offerings, as well as its on-campus recruiting schedule. Also included is a resource for schools to post vacancies that are available for filling.

Independent Schools Association of the Central States
http://www.isacs.org
Independent Schools Association of the Central States offers information about "Careers in Teaching" in independent schools, an opportunity to post a resume and links to placement agencies and job postings.

National Association of Independent Schools
http://www.nais.org
A resource for the job hunter as well as school and parents housing information about teaching in independent schools, publications and articles; links to a variety of resources including placement agencies and job postings.

Schools Online
http://www.schools.com/
From the Association of Boarding Schools, this site provides good descriptions of U.S. and international boarding schools, with email and web address links (alpha list, location list, and search by criterion are available).

School Service Bureau
http://www.zimmerworks.com/headhunt.htm
Specializes in placing teachers and administrators in independent schools.

Teach for America
http://www.teachforamerica.org/
Teaching corps of recent graduates, from all majors, dedicated to teaching in under-resourced schools. Link to the national program that recruits college graduates to teach for two years in urban and rural schools throughout the country.

Teachers@Work
http://www.teachersatwork.com/
An electronic employment service designed to match teachers with available school positions.

University of California, Berkeley's Career Exploration Links:
Educational Fields and Social Work
http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/Students/CareerLibrary/links/header.cfm
?FIELD=7&OCCUP=true

Government

California Department of Personnel Administration
http://www.dpa.ca.gov/
Provides job information in addition to information on benefits and training available to employees of the State of California.

CIA
http://www.cia.gov/
The official website of the Central Intelligence Agency. Includes both employment and internship information.

Cook County Department of Human Resources
http://www.co.cook.il.us/employment.htm
On-line job listings for positions with the County of Cook, Illinois.

Department of State
http://www.state.gov/www/careers/index.html
Information on careers in the foreign and civil service, plus student programs and internships offered by the Department of State.

Federal Jobs Central
http://www.fedjobs.com/
The Federal Goverment's main on-line recruiting presence.

Federal Jobs.Net
http://federaljobs.net/
Online career center for federal employment, including links to agencies and their job listings.

PMI Program
http://www.pmi.opm.gov/

State of Illinois Central Management Services' Personnel Page
http://www.state.il.us/cms/persnl/default.htm
Information on applying for state employment, downloadable application forms, and more.

State of Hawaii Department of Human Resources Development
http://www.state.hi.us/hrd/re_index.html
Provides listings of civil service job opportunities in the State of Hawaii plus information regarding application procedures, benefits, etc.

http://www.students.gov/

University of California, Berkeley's Career Exploration Links: Government
http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/Students/CareerLibrary/links/header.cfm
?FIELD=10&OCCUP=true

U.S. Department of Interior Federal Job Listings
http://www.doi.gov/octc/fedjob.html
A list of the best federal job search sites on the Web.

USAJobs.com
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/
The U.S. Government's official site for jobs and employment information provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management.

Neuroscience:

The International Behavioral Neuroscience Society – http://www.ibnshomepage.org/

Social Psychology, Human Behavior and Relations, Group Relations, etc.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology – http://www.spsp.org/

The Society of Experimental Social Psychology – http://www.sesp.org/

Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy – http://www.pitt.edu/~cslewis/GP2/Hello.html

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues – http://www.spssi.org/

Posted August 8, 2006