Career Decision Aids

Here are links to some sources with information that may assist you in deciding upon your career in psychology and related fields.

• Graduate School  This page has resources to help you in your effort to get into graduate and professional school.
• Job Search  As you look for summer or after-graduation jobs, here are some links to help you.
• Hanover College's Career Center
• Finding a Career with a Bachelor's in Psychology
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• A Career Decision Tree for Psychology Majors
• A list of pages on specialized areas of Psychology. Use these pages to find out more about particular areas of psychology.
• Careers in Psychology.  Developed by Margaret "Marky" Lloyd for psychology majors interested in exploring career options.
• Careers in psychology developed at the University of York, UK. While the information is biased to the situation in England it could be very useful to you as well.
• Careertoolkit.com.   Find information about careers.
• Careers in Science and Engineering.
• Criminal Justice Career Center.
• Good News for Bachelor's Grads. An APA Monitor Article on Job prospects of a psychology major.
• Graduate School and Careers in Psychology.  A comprehensive guide by John Suler at Rider University.
• Hanover College Resources on Planning to go to Graduate School
• JobWeb Career Planning Resources.  This is nice collection of online resources for career planning.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook.  The resource about careers in the U.S. put together by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• The Ph.D. Octopus.  By William James.  Worth a read.
• PsychGrad's List of Graduate programs by type.
• Psychology Careers for the 21st Century. A guide book put together by the APA with descriptions of the several types of activities done by psychologists in their jobs. Many actual psychologists describe their work in this document.
• Psychology and Law Graduate Programs
• Society for Teaching of Psychology Career Resources.
• A Students Guide to Careers in the Helping Professions.
• Suggestions for Further Study
• World-Wide Web Resources for Social Workers.  If you think you might be interested in social work, look here.

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