okay so you're either in your final year of psychology or you're already a graduate
now while many psychology graduates will go on to further study in order to
specialize in their particular chosen area you might just be thinking I want
to get out in the world of work I want to go and get a job get paid but ideally
I want it to be somewhat related to my degree to psychology well in this video
I'm gonna give you five popular common jobs that psychology graduates go into
but if you are a student looking to get into psychology then I've just done a
video on the top 5 requirements for you to study psychology at university
you'll be linked somewhere down here but let's get into the video so teaching
assistants is my first one and I imagine straightaway you're thinking well that's
a whole different area - psychology isn't any not education that's teaching
while teaching assistants can get really bogged down in individual students and
what teach assistants can do is specialize in sit in areas to help
children such as autism or or the special education needs dyspraxia,
dyslexia and you can help with a whole host of learning difficulties that
relate to psychology things like learning and development is such a big
area of psychology now it could be quite difficult to get straight into a
specialized teaching assistant role so be prepared just to apply for some
general teacher assistant roles to get you started and then interesting side
note is if you ever wanted to get into teaching psychology maybe at like a
college for a level oh you're not University being a teacher assistant can
be a stepping stone towards that so the next job is healthcare assistants now
healthcare assistants gonna have a way in hospitals or within the community and
it involves just helping people with the health and medical needs and I think
psychology would probably most fit into the mental health aspects of this
helping people with certain mental health conditions whether that's helping
them with the likes of medicine or behavioral management or just helping
them with their everyday life as a side know healthcare assistants who can often
have the benefit of working on Bank what that means is you can work sort of set
hours that you choose that you means this and go very well with further
studies if you wanted to now support work it's not to be confused with
healthcare worker although it can be somewhat similar a support
worker is helping more with everyday living everyday life and it can mean
children as well as adults individuals as well as families
there can be people with learning difficulties people with mental health
or people with social anxieties or social issues your job will mainly
consist ensuring that they can live very happy and independent lives as much as
possible psychology assistant is exactly how it
sounds we'll be assisting real-life psychologists such as an educational
psychologist and an occupational psychologist and the benefit of this is
that can really help you if you wanted to get into that kind of roll it can give
you some real-life experience in the world of psychology help you with further
studies but it's also a role within itself and you might just be happy with
what I will say is it can be quite competitive and it might help that you
have some experience some real-life work experience in other roles before you apply
for this one but it's certainly possible for you to get it if you want it lastly
it's a psychology research assistant again exactly what it sounds like
you'll be helping fully-fledged researchers in the area of psychology
now this is going to be very competitive because the kind of people they favor
there's people who are on research master's degrees research PhDs
doctorates and they also favor people who have an interest in the area that
they're researching so really for this role you're gonna be needing to have a
and real interest in the favor academic research side of psychology now
it could be that you're interested in working for the university as a
researcher and a lecturer in the future in which case this is a role for you but
what you need to do ideally is make a shortlist of lecturers who are working
in the area that you are interested in and then contacting them about possible
roles now they might sort of five top of the job site psychology graduate scene
to go into there's a couple of points I one that lead off fiercely you might be
noticing that a lot of them are not particularly high paying there's
something I want to say about that basically psychology degree typically is
very general and it's a lot of theory work and there's a lot of studies and
exams but it's not always real life application ie don't always learn skills
that can be applied to the real work setting it's not always you can learn a
bit but not always a lot and because it's quite general you haven't
specialized in a particular area so what you can't really be doing is the
particular specialist roles in
psychology and with that you can't be demanding particular
salaries or pay rises or anything like that what you really need to do is go
and get yourself some experience and what you will find with some research is
that a lot of psychologists research psychologists lecturers all kinds of
people in this area will have done jobs like I've mentioned such as teacher
assistants mental health workers support where here's those kind of jobs before
they got into the roles that they're in now but that's it for my top five jobs
of psychology graduates if you think I have missed any if you've got any questions
just leave them down below as I said if your psychology students I have just
done a video on the top five requirements for study in psychology at
university if you're interested in me covered any other subjects whether it's
the requirements to study uni or the kind of jobs you can go into linked it
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