PSYCHOLOGY - ADVISING

CAREER INFORMATION

**New** Careers in Psychology.org is a comprehensive site for students with information on psychology and social work careers, internships, jobs, school information, and interviews with people working in these fields.  An excellent site...but it is slanted toward careers that require graduate degreers.

Types of Careers

FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY A complete listing of psychology fields and specific information regarding these fields.

JOB DESCRIPTIONS Dr. Drew Appleby from IUPUI has collected a list of links to occupations of interest to psychology majors from the U.S. Department of Labor . These descriptions identify the skills people in these occupations must possess to perform their jobs successfully.

O*NET: The O*NET system is a national source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations - you will need to search it by keywords or terms.

Salary Information

• Occupational Outlook Handbook website http://www.bls.gov/oco/ 
• Additionally, there are commercial sites that offer similar types of information (e.g., http://www.salarysource.com/)

Useful Links

• APA The American Psychological Association is a good resource that will also include information about joining as a student affiliate.
  • APA's Psychology as a Career site
• APS The Association of Psychological Science is more research oriented than APA. APS has excellent student resources too.
• PSI CHI This is the national site for Psi Chi, an honors association for psychology undergraduates. There is information about the organization as well as student grant opportunities.
• MPA The Midwestern Psychological Association is an excellent regional group that puts on an annual meeting in Chicago every year. Several UW-L students have presented papers through Psi Chi at the MPA conference. Information on membership and the conference is available at this site.
• Scott Plous’ site at Wesleyan is devoted to general psychology and social psychology—including links to graduate programs.  It is one of the best sites for psychology undergraduates.  http://www.socialpsychology.org/
• Linda Walsh's site at the University of Northern Iowa:   http://www.uni.edu/walsh/linda1.html
• Psych Web by Russ Dewey:  http://www.psychwww.com/
• The Career Services site provides UW-L salary information by college and major.

Job Search

Career Searching via the Web: A sample of career searching sites (some may involve fees or subscriptions but you will be warned before you spend any money).

·      Hotjobs (www.hotjobs.com). Good for entry level job searches – fewer jobs than MonsterTrak (below) but more privacy.

·      MonsterTrak (www.monstertrak.com). This site is the college graduate portion of Monster.com and is undergoing large changes that might affect its usefulness.

·      Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com are both web-based search engines for jobs and are new editions to the field that have been well received for serving the job hunter.

·      Federal Government Job Listings (www.usajobs.opm.gov)

• Human Services

  • Many employers in this area advertise in their local newspapers as they do not have large advertising budgets. Consequently, check to see if the job site you’ve chosen crawls newspapers for jobs and/or visit the classified ads of the paper in a town in which you’d like to work. www.careerbuilder.com searches newspapers as do www.indeed.com and www.simplyhired.com

  • The National Assembly of Health and Human Services Organizations  (www.nassembly.org). Has a link to jobs and internships across the nation.

  • The local United Way website for the geographical area for which you are interested will provide a list of agencies they support.