Biggest advice, if you want to become a psychologist work in any job that involves mental health WHILE in school. I have 6 years of experience and am almost done with my bachelors.. then I'm going to grad school. My advisor told me my experience will definitely help me!
Yeah, a job is a job, but none of us got into it for a corporate job. I did not get my psych BS to find an employer, it was to help my plans of being a sex coach, but finding a job while I work on my own business has been challenging. I have applied to a lot and the most likely job I can get is paperwork in fields like medical insurance and behavioral offices but they pay about 36-38k. The work I put into my degree is certainly worth more than that salary, and the amount of education we receive in that degree program is also worthy od working a lot of jobs that state they require a master's.
HR requires experience in HR so no none of these are true officially start applying for jobs. They ask you for so much so it’s kind of impossible sometimes but I would recommend maybe ABA it’s part part time but at least you can get
Psychological careers are something you really, REALLY need to want to do. Out of every hundred people that want to do clinical psychology for example probably 10 will actually end up getting the doctorate as the road to get there is insanely difficult
If you're considering psych as a major, I 100% advise you to NOT pick the degree unless you are 100% sure that you want to be a psychologist (whether as a practitioner in clinical/educational/organisation/counselling/sport/etc, or as a researcher in cognitive/social/etc). This is coming from someone who has the degree + is undergoing a masters and WANTS to do the Doctorate in clinical psych.
The psychologist career route has what I like to call a no-man's land. The Bachelors is very weak, and once you get it, your opportunities are limited to assistant psychology roles, research assistant roles, or work in adjacent fields like social work and other things in the social sector. All of which are relatively underpaid.
It's only when you do a masters (and you have to be careful, as some masters are more employable than others too) and/or a Doctorate do the jobs start rolling in. Thus, you have this "no man's land" between Bachelors and Masters/Doctorate.
So, please be very careful if you do pursue this career route. There will be hardships ahead.
Get an internship or a job related to the concentration you’re interested in. One of my friends is a bs psyc major and she’s currently a tutor for kids planning to get her masters after graduating.
I recommend for anyone looking doing a bachelors with a years placement so 4 years undergraduate degree. Which will get you basic knowledge and actual experience. Then postgraduate in the specific area of choice. For me it’s clinical. And finish with a masters or doctorate with experience with only an extra 2 years at uni. I come from a low income household and it was still the best option for me. The debt is manageable I didn’t go without and it made it very easy to get a job with all the experience I had from those extra two years. Please bear in mind that these companies require you to be fully qualified as you cannot deal with another humans mental health or diagnose them medicine in a clinical setting without the proper training and experience. You wouldn’t want a trainee surgeon preforming life saving surgery on you with no experience in a real life setting x hope this helped <3
It’s pretty irresponsible as a former recruiter to tell psych students this. Yes, it is possible to get a Job involving psychology with just your Bachelors. But it’s highly unlikely. And if you do it most likely won’t involve you working that field which would mean you would have little to no experience in whatever position you do get. You don’t need a Masters. But you do need higher education of some kind.
I have a hunch that are they're looking for jobs that pay over 60,000$ a year. I live in a small town and theres a ton of jobs nearby for psych majors with only a bachelor's (not even internships fulltime jobs), pays usually barely 35,000 at best but its still experience…
A bachelors degree in Psychology is the equivalent of getting all the lottery numbers right a week after the draw… fucking useless!!!!! All the jobs are basically minimum wage or similar data monkey gigs.
I’ll never understand why people expect to be able to treat peoples mental health with just a bachelors.. you are in the health department. All health degrees require more than the minimum 😭😭
You can be a Case manager with a bachelors degree or be something like a Behavioral Health Technician. Both pay about 20ish an hour but with more experience comes more pay. I have a bachelor’s in Psych myself and truly think if you don’t think you want to pursue more education I wouldn’t recommend it.
From my experience, the only roles available to candidates with a BA or BS in psych in academia are unpaid or minimum wage, and the schools prefer to hire candidates still in their undergrad.
And other than maybe getting lucky and finding an HR internship, all of those corporate jobs mentioned require experience.
A psych degree is desirable for working with children with autism, either as an aide or doing ABA, but it pays just slightly over minimum wage to start and, again, you have to go to graduate school to make a decent wage.
My advice is to just take the L and do what you can to get your foot in the door anywhere that sounds interesting to you, like you can volunteer at the suicide hotline, and that looks good on a graduate school application. Just literally start somewhere and don’t give up.
U say it like you think you know but the reality is the market is over saturated and nobody wants you. Science was the most useless degree I ever done. Teaching in the government sector is the only viable option left.
I got a mental health technician certificate and am a psych. Tech. For the past yr. I'm a sophomore and plan working 1 more year and senior yr I'm going to apply to laboratories. In my case I have experience to get into a lab since I have a certificate in medical laboratory tech. And after I get my bs in psychology I'll be able to get way better and valuable lab positions for grad school. The certificates together took an extra 1.5 yr which is nothing tbh and ill graduate with a good shot at grad school acceptance and can apply to many medical jobs if I wanted too. She's just not looking and doing her research lol. Also with a psych major you can work your way into earning good money if you know the right avenues to take so yeah no sympathy for her lol
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Biggest advice, if you want to become a psychologist work in any job that involves mental health WHILE in school. I have 6 years of experience and am almost done with my bachelors.. then I'm going to grad school. My advisor told me my experience will definitely help me!
Yeah, a job is a job, but none of us got into it for a corporate job. I did not get my psych BS to find an employer, it was to help my plans of being a sex coach, but finding a job while I work on my own business has been challenging. I have applied to a lot and the most likely job I can get is paperwork in fields like medical insurance and behavioral offices but they pay about 36-38k. The work I put into my degree is certainly worth more than that salary, and the amount of education we receive in that degree program is also worthy od working a lot of jobs that state they require a master's.
But I think the lady of in that video simply just wanted to work in clinic, so your advice is helpful for those who wanna settle with that.
Bro so basically no one actually gets a degree to learn no one cares about what they really learn they just want a job from it. Great.
Biggest regret of my life would have gone further in theater
HR requires experience in HR so no none of these are true officially start applying for jobs. They ask you for so much so it’s kind of impossible sometimes but I would recommend maybe ABA it’s part part time but at least you can get
Volunteer!
Try working for free, volunteering and shadowing. I definitely want the masters though
Psychological careers are something you really, REALLY need to want to do. Out of every hundred people that want to do clinical psychology for example probably 10 will actually end up getting the doctorate as the road to get there is insanely difficult
She looks like she needs help
If you're considering psych as a major, I 100% advise you to NOT pick the degree unless you are 100% sure that you want to be a psychologist (whether as a practitioner in clinical/educational/organisation/counselling/sport/etc, or as a researcher in cognitive/social/etc). This is coming from someone who has the degree + is undergoing a masters and WANTS to do the Doctorate in clinical psych.
The psychologist career route has what I like to call a no-man's land. The Bachelors is very weak, and once you get it, your opportunities are limited to assistant psychology roles, research assistant roles, or work in adjacent fields like social work and other things in the social sector. All of which are relatively underpaid.
It's only when you do a masters (and you have to be careful, as some masters are more employable than others too) and/or a Doctorate do the jobs start rolling in. Thus, you have this "no man's land" between Bachelors and Masters/Doctorate.
So, please be very careful if you do pursue this career route. There will be hardships ahead.
Get an internship or a job related to the concentration you’re interested in. One of my friends is a bs psyc major and she’s currently a tutor for kids planning to get her masters after graduating.
If you understand people, so well, why can’t you just sell things?
Sales is like the most direct path to money
Especially if you believe in the product that you’re selling
I want to study biopsychology
I recommend for anyone looking doing a bachelors with a years placement so 4 years undergraduate degree. Which will get you basic knowledge and actual experience. Then postgraduate in the specific area of choice. For me it’s clinical. And finish with a masters or doctorate with experience with only an extra 2 years at uni. I come from a low income household and it was still the best option for me. The debt is manageable I didn’t go without and it made it very easy to get a job with all the experience I had from those extra two years. Please bear in mind that these companies require you to be fully qualified as you cannot deal with another humans mental health or diagnose them medicine in a clinical setting without the proper training and experience. You wouldn’t want a trainee surgeon preforming life saving surgery on you with no experience in a real life setting x hope this helped <3
It’s pretty irresponsible as a former recruiter to tell psych students this. Yes, it is possible to get a Job involving psychology with just your Bachelors. But it’s highly unlikely. And if you do it most likely won’t involve you working that field which would mean you would have little to no experience in whatever position you do get. You don’t need a Masters. But you do need higher education of some kind.
thank god i found this vid, i was almost going for a psych undergrad. sorry for u!
I have a hunch that are they're looking for jobs that pay over 60,000$ a year. I live in a small town and theres a ton of jobs nearby for psych majors with only a bachelor's (not even internships fulltime jobs), pays usually barely 35,000 at best but its still experience…
A bachelors degree in Psychology is the equivalent of getting all the lottery numbers right a week after the draw… fucking useless!!!!! All the jobs are basically minimum wage or similar data monkey gigs.
At my school they make sure you KNOW you have to go to grad school. I’m already prepping to apply to PhD programs as a sophomore
I’ll never understand why people expect to be able to treat peoples mental health with just a bachelors.. you are in the health department. All health degrees require more than the minimum 😭😭
You can be a Case manager with a bachelors degree or be something like a Behavioral Health Technician. Both pay about 20ish an hour but with more experience comes more pay. I have a bachelor’s in Psych myself and truly think if you don’t think you want to pursue more education I wouldn’t recommend it.
Yes let’s make 40k a year with academic ones or make 70k doing a job barely relating to what i learnt
From my experience, the only roles available to candidates with a BA or BS in psych in academia are unpaid or minimum wage, and the schools prefer to hire candidates still in their undergrad.
And other than maybe getting lucky and finding an HR internship, all of those corporate jobs mentioned require experience.
A psych degree is desirable for working with children with autism, either as an aide or doing ABA, but it pays just slightly over minimum wage to start and, again, you have to go to graduate school to make a decent wage.
My advice is to just take the L and do what you can to get your foot in the door anywhere that sounds interesting to you, like you can volunteer at the suicide hotline, and that looks good on a graduate school application. Just literally start somewhere and don’t give up.
U say it like you think you know but the reality is the market is over saturated and nobody wants you. Science was the most useless degree I ever done. Teaching in the government sector is the only viable option left.
I got a mental health technician certificate and am a psych. Tech. For the past yr. I'm a sophomore and plan working 1 more year and senior yr I'm going to apply to laboratories. In my case I have experience to get into a lab since I have a certificate in medical laboratory tech. And after I get my bs in psychology I'll be able to get way better and valuable lab positions for grad school. The certificates together took an extra 1.5 yr which is nothing tbh and ill graduate with a good shot at grad school acceptance and can apply to many medical jobs if I wanted too. She's just not looking and doing her research lol. Also with a psych major you can work your way into earning good money if you know the right avenues to take so yeah no sympathy for her lol