Sources on Careers & Graduate Programs in Psychology

updated 7-8-03

 

Selected web sites on career options:                        

 

*http://www.socialpyschology.org:  Social Psychology Network has a career center with job listings, links to other sites as well as many good articles including "Finding Careers with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology" by Bruce R. Fretz.  Excellent site on getting into graduate school, preparing for the GRE, developing an academic vita, etc.

 

*www.psywww.com:  Psych Web contains a great article "Careers in Psychology," by Marky  Lloyd, that links to other lists of relevant books, resources, websites on careers, graduate school, and job listings.  Great resource.

 

*www.psychologicalscience.org:  site of American Psychological Society contains job listing information as well as a student issues sub-page that contains information on research-doctorate programs in the U.S.

 

*www.apa.org/students:  site of the American Psychological Association has a number of rticles for the bachelor, masters and doctorate graduate on career options.  They also offer a brochure titled Psychology: Careers for the 21st Century, c. 1996 and a book entitled Getting In: a step-by-step plan for gaining admission to graduate school in psychology, c. 1993.

 

www.uni.edu/walsh:  a good site containing career information developed by Dr. Linda Walsh at the University of Northern Iowa.  Check out the "Careers/Searching for a Job"

sub-page; it contains links to other articles on the subject.

 

*www.jobweb.com:  the "Job Search Tools" sub-page contains topics on career development and exploration, interviews and resumes, job market update, recommended reading list, and salaries.  The "Career Development" sub-page contains tips for the grad student.

 

www.jobtrak.com:  a good general comprehensive site with many resources for students, including an on-line job listing service.

 

Selected books, journal articles:

 

Career paths in psychology: where your degree can take you.  Edited by Robert J.

     Sternberg.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c.1997.

1)      available for viewing in UALR Psychology Department office

2)      available for checkout - UALR Ottenheimer Library - 4th floor circulation

      call # BF76.C38 1997

 

*Graduate Study in Psychology.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c. 1998.

                        Available for viewing in UALR Psychology Department office

 

 

 

*Keith-Spiegel, Patricia, The Complete Guide to Graduate School Admission: Psychology and                               

     related fields.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1991.

            Available for viewing in UALR Psychology Department office

 

Opportunities in psychology careers.  By Charles M. Super and Donald Super.                    

     Lincolnwood, Ill: VGM Careers Horizons, c. 1994.

            1) available through Central Arkansas Library System-Aerospace Branch; call # 150.23 S

2) available through Central Arkansas Library System-Williams Branch; call # 150.23 S

 

Great jobs for psychology majors, 2nd ed.  By Julie DeGalan and Stephen Lambert.

     Chicago, Ill: VGM Career Books, c. 2001.

            Available through Central Arkansas Library System-Main Library 14-day;

call # 150.23 DeGalan

 

*Succeeding in Graduate School: The Career Guide for Psychology Students.  Edited by

      S. Walfish and A. K. Hess.   Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., c. 2001.

            400 pp.  Paperback $32.50, Cloth $95.00. 

 

 "Careers in psychology at the associate's, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels," by

      Ronald D. Taylor and Cheryl Ann Hardy.  Psychological Reports, v. 79, December 

     1996, pt. 1, pp. 960-62.

            Available at UALR Ottenheimer Library

 

"A skills-experience inventory for the undergraduate psychology major," by Daniel J.

     Kruger and Eugene B. Zechmeister.  Teaching of Psychology, v. 28 no. 4, Autumn

     2001, pp. 249-53.

            Available in UALR Psychology Department office

 

"A decision tree for psychology majors: supplying questions as well as answers," by

     Retta E. Poe.  Teaching of Psychology, v. 15, December 1988, pp. 210-13.

            Available at http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/career2.html website

 

"Psychology careers material:  selected resources," by Retta E. Poe.  Teaching of

     Psychology, v. 17, October 1990, pp. 175-78.

            Available in UALR Psychology Department office

 

Selected general/reference resources:

 

What color is your parachute, by Richard Nelson Bolles.  Ten Speed Press, Berkeley,

     CA,  2003.

            Available for checkout - UALR Ottenheimer Library - 4th floor circulation,

            call # HF5382.7

 

 

 

 

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002-03.   U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of

     Labor Statistics, Washington, DC, 2001.

            Available for library use only - UALR Ottenheimer Library - 1st floor reference,

            call # Ref HF5381.A1 036.  Also available on CD/ROM.

 

            Need to know some specific job titles to search.

 

*Peterson’s Graduate Programs in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences.  Princeton, NJ:

    Peterson’s Guides, annually.

            1) 1996 edition available for viewing in UALR Psychology Department office

2)      2003 edition available for library use only – UALR Ottenheimer Library –

1st floor reference, call # Ref L901.P46

 

*particularly helpful for those students considering graduate school