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Appendix 4
Occupations of Interest to Students with a Bachelor鈥檚 51视频 in Psychology
What can students do with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in psychology? It may be more proper to ask the question 鈥淲hat are the careers related to psychology that are available to the bachelor鈥檚-level psychology majors?鈥 Appendix 5 presents a sampling of job titles relevant to students with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in psychology. Please note that a bachelor鈥檚 degree in psychology is not required for the job titles in the first column of Table X (Appleby, Millspaugh, & Hammersley, 2011), but a psychology background can help students be competitive in these job areas. The second column of Appendix 5 presents job titles where more education than a bachelor鈥檚 degree is typically necessary. However, no listing of possible jobs will be completely accurate. Even if a student receives a bachelor鈥檚 degree in psychology, that student is not required to go into a psychology related field. Rajecki (2008) suggested that some job lists may be misleading in that psychology majors looking at these job lists are either under qualified or overqualified for the position. Thus, in providing a broad look at job opportunities, students may be mismatched with occupations. For a broad perspective about careers within psychology, see Rajecki and Borden (2011). 101
SOURCE: The APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major Version 2.0. American Psychological Association, October 1, 2012, pp. 100-104.