Is it easy for psychology graduate students to find jobs?

Question 1: Is it easy for psychology graduate students to find jobs? I found that the previous respondents were either ignorant of psychology or poor at school, right? Like our school, graduates with master's degrees in psychology have found good jobs. Also, psychology not only studies psychological counseling, but also studies engineering psychology. Nowadays, many large enterprises recruit psychology to engage in product research and development, and use psychology as a lever. The more developed this major is, the more popular it is, and now it is gradually accepted by the public. Of course, if you take the civil service exam and go to a public institution, this major will be limited. Generally, personnel, or prisons or some nursing homes, will recruit psychology. It depends on your own positioning.

Question 2: What is the employment situation of psychology graduate students? Many students don't know how to choose a major when they cross majors. Today, I recommend a new major to my classmates: psychology. At the same time, when students decide to take the postgraduate entrance examination, they often face a problem, that is, employment. Boren Education combines Mr. Wo's psychology employment view of Beijing Normal University and the urgent demand for psychology graduate students in the current society to make a summary of psychology employment for students. First of all, the postgraduate entrance examination needs psychology. Why? Psychology postgraduate political, foreign language, professional courses do not need to test mathematics; I still didn't learn this major well when I was an undergraduate. I heard that it is relatively easy to take the postgraduate entrance examination in psychology, so I came to study psychology. This is somewhat misunderstood. Junior students began to prepare for the 20 14 postgraduate entrance examination. Like everyone else, they encountered the confusion of choosing a major. We asked Boren Education if we wanted to take the psychology major, but we couldn't answer. Because it's not up to others to decide whether to take the psychology test or not, it's up to us. There are many choices in one's life. Once you choose a major after the college entrance examination, your decision-making power is not great, mainly because parents and teachers help you choose. But the postgraduate entrance examination is different. It's entirely your choice. Think about what you want in your life. If you think about it, you won't lose money if you choose another one. Interested in psychology and want to study psychology in depth, no problem. If you want to finish psychology and make it your career, you can. What is the occupation of psychology? Immediately, you can be like psychological counseling and therapy, human resource management, being a teacher, and engaging in scientific research ... Why is psychology increasingly favored by interdisciplinary students? In fact, there is a great demand for psychological talents in society. There are many jobs related to psychology, and talents are very scarce. Students' choices are too narrow. Automobile manufacturing, when it comes to good cars, you can say many good cars and famous cars. Why? A good car will keep you driving for a long time, so that you won't be tired and have an accident easily. Why is this? A large number of psychologists are doing research on automobile manufacturing, which is called engineering psychology. In our country, only Zhejiang University is doing research on engineering psychology, but compared with the international, there is a big gap and the strength is simply not enough. This strength has been applied to China's high-tech fields, such as manned aviation and aerospace, but no strength can really be applied to other application fields in China. All instruments and equipment that need human operation need the participation of engineering psychologists. Does the construction industry need a psychiatrist? People don't know that the construction industry needs psychologists and building ergonomics. 199 The highest price of a new house in Beijing is 6,000 square meters, and a three-acre villa in Phoenix, Guangdong is 48 million yuan. Because a French psychologist was invited to participate in the design, one of his jobs was to preserve litchi trees that had been cut down for more than 300 years. Finally, the people who bought the villa liked the layout of the villa and the litchi trees in the yard, and finally auctioned a set of 68 million. In addition to the exterior design and more important interior decoration, some five-star hotels make people feel very comfortable after staying, because it conforms to ergonomic principles. Psychologists are needed to do such a job. There is also the design and construction of traffic roads. When I first arrived in Beijing, I fainted while driving. When I was building, I didn't consider people's psychological cognitive ability. I often can't tell the corner of the loop from the road sign, so I accidentally passed it. If 10- 15% drivers pass by, how much loss will it bring, produce carbon dioxide, traffic jam and waste oil. All these require the work of psychologists to solve problems involving architectural ergonomics. In terms of market operation and project investment, how to know the degree of market recognition and consumer acceptance in advance. Still need psychology, to do market research, market research, to understand the awareness and demand. In product development, packaging design, style design and human nature design all need psychologists. Apple's mobile phone is so hot that it is easy to operate according to people's cognitive characteristics. Lenovo started as a computer, and now Lenovo is making mobile phones. Because it didn't do a good job in brand marketing, it was a mess. Advertising effect and consumer acceptance belong to consumer psychology. Medical treatment is a field closely combined with psychology. At present, many medical workers don't understand psychology and patients' psychology, and many medical designs are unreasonable, which wastes many patients' time and energy. The dispute between doctors and patients is very telling. Now hospitals begin to set up double-heart clinics because cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are highly related to psychological factors. In the field of education, it is necessary to understand the growth law of children and students. There are financial psychology or economic psychology in the financial field. After 20 years of development in the emerging field of psychology, you are an industry authority, so you should think about it after you decide to take the postgraduate entrance examination in psychology. > & gt

Question 3: What is the employment direction and prospect of psychology major? I am a psychology graduate. After paying attention to it for several years, I found that psychology has a good prospect and the present situation is not optimistic.

But if you are a graduate student, it's ok for the time being. It is best to obtain the qualification of psychological counselor during school. If you want to work in school after graduation, joining the party is also the future trend. Although it is not advocated to join the party for work, the reality is so cruel. I hope it helps you.

Question 4: Is the employment prospect of psychology good? I hate people who know clearly but don't say anything, so I want to tell you.

Question 5: Is the employment prospect of psychology good? Not so good. I graduated with a master's degree in psychology At present, the employment direction of psychology is mainly universities, primary and secondary schools and enterprises. The requirements for entering colleges and universities are very high now. Basically, they all require a doctorate. Most masters are counselors, and party member must be a counselor. Many primary and secondary schools need masters, and the recruitment gap is very small, because a school also needs 1-2 psychological teachers, many of which are for exams. Enterprises generally do human resource management, but human resource management has a special human resource management major, so its competitiveness is not very strong. If you enter a consulting organization, you may not be able to support yourself. The chances of taking an examination of public institutions and civil servants are relatively small, because there are fewer candidates in this major. Even though there are many public security majors, they are basically boys and have higher physical requirements. There are even fewer opportunities to go abroad. One-third of a class in foreign mathematics department may be from China, but one class in psychology department has only 1-2 Chinese. Because psychology itself is a subject with strong dependence on culture, it requires a higher level of language. There are many ways of discussion and field practice in foreign teaching models, which were difficult for China people to learn in the past. The present situation of psychology is promising prospects and worrying employment. It's not an alarmist, but a fact.

Question 6: Is the Master of Psychology useful? Where do you mainly work? Although I am not a graduate student, I know something about this. I have got a master's degree in psychology. If the school is better, I can choose to work, but the salary is not satisfactory. There are general human resources positions, psychological counseling (generally not directly as a psychological counselor, may be an assistant, may also be psychological training promotion or other aspects), as well as school psychological teachers (more in the south).

I am also a graduate student. So I prepared the whole lecture notes and review materials, teaching materials, exercises and the details of the real questions when I took the postgraduate entrance examination. I should have the confidence to find my pen name.

Question 7: What are the employment prospects of psychology majors in the next few years? Psychology is a new discipline in China, and people don't know much about this major, which limits its employment scope to some extent. However, due to the relatively small number of students, the employment prospects are still relatively optimistic. At present, the employment of master of psychology mainly focuses on the following aspects:

First, colleges and universities, which is the main destination of psychology graduate students after graduation. In recent years, colleges and universities have paid more and more attention to students' mental health, and have set up public courses in psychology. Master of psychology, served as a public course teacher of psychology in colleges and universities. This undoubtedly expanded the employment of psychology graduate students. One of the best employment directions for Master of Psychology is to enter the Department of Psychology and the Department of Education and become a psychology teacher. However, with the increase of doctoral graduates and the continuous expansion of graduate students, it will become more and more difficult to engage in this profession. Psychological counseling centers in colleges and universities also provide employment opportunities for masters of psychology. However, this generally requires the practice of psychological counseling during school, and girls are generally preferred. Postgraduates in psychology compete more fiercely for the position of counselor than students in other majors, but generally speaking, joining the party is a prerequisite. The salary of university work varies according to the specific position and region.

Second, civil servants. It is generally the public security system that recruits psychology graduate students as civil servants: public security bureau, reeducation-through-labor center, prison, border checkpoint, etc. Are all possible places. Some units have strict physical requirements for employees, while others need physical fitness tests.

Third, enterprises. Psychology graduate students go to enterprises that focus on headhunting (talent agency), enterprise consulting and human resource management. Postgraduates in psychology are different from students majoring in human resource management. Students majoring in psychology advocate humanized management, which is complementary to students majoring in human resource management. But because people don't know much about psychology, students in psychology department are not as competitive as those in human resource management. Graduate students of psychology department can also engage in market research, but the number is relatively small, generally more than undergraduate students.

Fourth, primary and secondary schools. Undergraduate students are generally recruited, and the psychological counseling department is mainly used as a "vase" to cope with the inspection of the education department, so the future is not optimistic and the income is low, so graduate students are generally disdainful, unless they can't find a job, they are generally not considered.

Fifth, psychological counseling workers. Judging from the current situation in China, the domestic industry simply engaged in psychological counseling may not be able to maintain a certain standard of living, and it needs to develop if it wants to have the wages of foreign counterparts.

Sixth, hospitals and clinics. Students who study clinical psychology and medical psychology can go to hospitals or psychological clinics to engage in psychological counseling and treatment. However, in view of the current demand for psychologists in China and the need for a medical license to go to a hospital, it is more difficult.

Generally speaking, the employment of psychology graduate students is still relatively wide. In addition, this is a sunrise discipline. With the deepening of people's understanding of it and the development of social economy, the demand will expand day by day and the employment prospects will be optimistic. Of course, the present prospect is not equal to the future reality, and it will take time to prove it.

Question 8: Is it easy to take the postgraduate entrance examination in psychology? After the unified examination of psychology, there are more and more people taking psychology examinations across disciplines. Many people happily asked me as soon as they came up, "I am a cross-exam." Is it difficult to take a postgraduate entrance examination in psychology? " . In fact, this is a big problem, not just the difficulty of postgraduate entrance examination.

First of all, I will make you think clearly, why take the risk to take the psychology exam? The employment of this major is very problematic (at least not at present. Please refer to a journal of my QQ Space (user.qzone.qq/597499359/main), Psychology Job Market. Moreover, psychology is not equal to fortune telling. After studying psychology, never see through what others are thinking. If psychology is unsuccessful, learning psychology will not directly help you succeed; Psychology is not only equal to psychological consultation, but also can be a psychological counselor or psychologist after studying psychology. There are many branches of psychology, and psychological counseling is only a small branch (you can read another article in my space, "For friends who think they are" interested "in psychology").

If you still want to take the psychology exam after reading these, well, let's talk about the psychology postgraduate entrance examination. First of all, learn about the professional division of psychology postgraduate entrance examination (see "Professional division of psychology postgraduate entrance examination" in my space). There are many majors in psychology, so don't just know psychological counseling (in fact, psychological counseling is difficult to mix in China).

The next step is to see the school. Many people ask me how to choose a school. My opinion is to choose the district first and then the school. For example, if you want to develop in Nanjing in the future and study as a graduate student in Nanjing, then you can go and see which schools in Nanjing recruit psychology graduate students (this can be seen in my space as "doctor and master of psychology in domestic universities"), such as Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing University, Hohai University, Southeast University, Nanjing Medical University and Nanjing Institute of Politics, and then go to graduate department, official website, to check the specific enrollment brochures and professional catalogues (remember! It must be official website from school! ), see what direction these schools have, and then choose the right school and major direction according to your interest and strength. Generally speaking, after graduation, you will either stay in the city for postgraduate study or go back to your hometown for development, so you must choose a good postgraduate study area!

After that, it is a question of review. Most schools in psychology take the unified examination (a few don't, and the list of these schools can be found in my space). There are six courses in psychology, and the contents of the six courses are put in a test paper with a total score of 300 points. The reference books and review ideas of each course can refer to the articles in my space. My suggestion is to review at least four rounds: the first round should be completed before the end of summer vacation, and the books of six courses should be memorized according to the outline, which is not required, but must be memorized. For cross-majors, it is very important to lay a good foundation and take detailed notes (at this time, the outline of the new year has not yet come out, so you can use the previous year's, and the outline has not changed much every year); The second round is usually in September, 10, when the new outline has come out. Do you want to read the book again according to the new outline, or do you want to focus on understanding? Speaking of these problems, we must organize them in our own words; At the beginning of the third round, we have to ask questions about sea tactics and start doing crazy questions. Many people say not to engage in sea tactics, but I don't agree, because there are not as many unified psychological exams as there are in our college entrance examination, and there are so many mock exams at ordinary times, so the postgraduate entrance examination is different. You have to review by yourself. It's no use just reading books, and you can't find the ideas and feelings of the exam. Therefore, we must do more questions, but at this time, the focus of doing questions is multiple-choice questions, because multiple-choice questions are more detailed knowledge points, and it is difficult to review when reading, but with so many detailed knowledge points in six courses, we must ask sea tactics (I thought I did more than 50 sets of complete simulation questions in those years, and there were more than 3,000 multiple-choice questions! ); The fourth round is the final sprint, on the one hand, it is to review important knowledge points clearly, on the other hand, it is to recite big questions. Of course, you can't relax at this time.

There is also signing up to fill in the volunteers, usually 10 month. Everyone can only apply for one school, one major and one direction, such as "Nanjing Normal University-School of Psychology-Applied Psychology-Medical Psychology".

Finally, do well in the exam!

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Question 9: What are the employment directions of psychology majors? As an experienced person in this major, I would like to say a few words, hoping to inspire you.

1 is the best way out, postgraduate entrance examination, undergraduate psychology is not easy to find a job, it is an embarrassing degree. Because I am a four-year undergraduate, a freshman in general psychology, a sophomore and a junior in fur, and a senior in job hunting. Therefore, the undergraduate psychology major is basically a taste, and graduate students should learn more. If the landlord is going to study this major, it is recommended to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination when entering the university.

2 missed the postgraduate entrance examination, only employment, where is the way out?

Try to get the book of the national third-level psychological counselor, and then get the teacher qualification certificate. You can choose to be a teacher. Generally, a slightly better school will provide psychological counseling, but it is not taken seriously. This is a road.

I graduated from that school, and my major in psychology still has a way out. The army should recruit several instructors as the future, provided that English has passed CET-4. I wonder if your school has this.

4 civil servants, but to be honest, psychology is rare. Undergraduate students, mainly from the prison education system, have been recruiting in these two departments in recent years. But wooden bridges are not easy to squeeze! ! ! !

I switched careers and majored in psychology. I can only get a bachelor's degree and start my own business. In the end, it has nothing to do with psychology. For example, I am one of them.

Hehe, don't be pessimistic. Although psychology is a marginal subject, the prospect is bright, depending on whether we can catch up.

Good luck! ! ! !

Question 10: Is the employment prospect of psychology major good? Generally speaking, after graduation, half of them do academic work (university teachers and researchers, mainly doctors), half do non-academic work (enterprise human resources, user experience, mental health work in universities and middle schools, and a small number of others, mainly masters; There are very few graduates who are directly employed. According to personal understanding, most of them are non-psychological jobs.

Specifically:

undergraduate courses

About 1/3 to 1/2 graduates go abroad or go to Hong Kong (mainly the United States, but also Britain and Hong Kong, etc. ) PhD, mainly basic psychology (cognition, cognitive nerves, psychostatistics, etc. ), but also in some applied psychology (industry/organization, development/education, society and culture), so it is generally difficult to go abroad clinically.

Most of the rest are studying for master's or direct doctor's degrees in psychology in domestic universities or research institutes (Peking University, Beijing Normal University, Tsinghua, Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.). ), and a few will change majors.

There are very few people who work directly after graduation. It seems that those who work directly are engaged in enterprise work directly related to non-psychology.

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It is divided into two classes: the headquarters and the Shenzhen Graduate School (however, the classes of the Shenzhen Graduate School have been discontinued in the future and replaced by two-year professional masters trained by the headquarters). After graduation, some will continue to study abroad (both basic and applied psychology are available, and basic application is relatively difficult), or study in China, the number will be less, but there are also a number.

But no matter which side, many graduates will start working, and the basic psychology side doesn't know much about it. The direction of applied psychology is mainly divided into three parts-organizational management (most of them go to enterprises to engage in HR work, and some go to consulting companies), development education (it seems that they have opened their own kindergartens and combined education with scientific research, which is very strong, and they should also go to other educational institutions), clinical (in the past, they went to the psychological counseling centers of major universities. This year, two graduates from our laboratory went to the psychological counseling centers of key universities to be full-time psychological counselors or psychological teachers. 1 I went to a large state-owned enterprise to do internal EAP, 1 I went to a key middle school to be a psychology teacher, 1 I went back to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for employment, and the only one who didn't find a job would go to a famous American school to study a cool non-psychological but psychology-related major).

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No matter studying abroad or at home, you should basically engage in educational and scientific research in universities or research institutes after graduation. Places like the psychology department of Peking University will basically only accept outstanding returnees in the future, and they will pay more attention to the direction of basic psychology.

Generally speaking, my experience is that psychology mainly has three employment aspects:

academic research

You need to study for a doctorate, preferably abroad or at home, but the competition for going to key universities in first-tier cities will be fierce. It is necessary to test academic ability and interest and send papers. A few key universities will require SCI or SSCI.

Enterprise-related work (human resources, user experience, business consulting, consumer research, etc. )

Master degree. There is a great demand in this market (mainly human resources, and more and more people are doing user experience recently), but of course there is great competition in finding a good job.

Psychological counseling and therapy, mental health education

At least master's degree. Because I am studying this direction, I will say one more thing:

This piece of fish and dragons are mixed, the quality of academic education and continuing training education cannot be guaranteed, the public's understanding and trust in psychological counseling and treatment is still limited, and the cost of tens to hundreds per hour is beyond the reach of ordinary wage earners-these will gradually improve in the future, but it is hard to say how many years it will take (update: I recently learned that many people in first-tier cities can afford counseling fees, and the consumption power of residents in first-tier cities should be improved).

In terms of income, it is said that investment is the main thing in the early stage (high training cost), and personal development in the later stage may vary from person to person. The situation of doing well is very good (especially the training income is high, but all the experts can provide training), and the average income is also very average. It is said that it is not enough to support the family. Don't believe the statement that training institutions publicize that psychological counselors are high-income occupations-there are high incomes, but after all, they are a minority.

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