Psychology

MiscellaneousGetting a Job

‌In the second year of your degree we dedicate a unit to employability skills for psychologists.  This unit provides you with relevant psychological careers theory and information required to aid the transition to future work or postgraduate education. You will learn more about the employment-relevant personal skills gathered during your degree and the requirements of different psychology-based and psychology related occupations you might enter as a graduate.

So what can you do with your Psychology degree? 

Studying for an honours degree in psychology fosters the development of a range of skills that prepares you not only to pursue postgraduate studies in psychology (which may lead to careers as occupational, clinical, health, sports, forensic or educational psychologists), but also to enter a range of other employment areas.

Our psychology degrees are well received by a wide range of graduate employers because of their broad content, depth and coverage of a wide range of approaches, providing much sought-after work-relevant abilities. As well as subject-specific knowledge, you will develop skills in communication, numeracy, teamwork, critical thinking, computing and independent learning – all of which are valued by employers. Many of the subject-specific skills such as research design, methodology, data measurement and analysis also have direct application in professions outside of psychology.

Recent graduates from our courses have entered a wide variety of graduate careers including:

  • Teaching (children and young adults)
  • Health associated professions
  • Social welfare
  • Police work
  • Research
  • Marketing / market research
  • Human resources
  • Prison / probation service
  • Counselling
  • Advertising
  • Management schemes

Postgraduate StudyEach year, around one in five of our students also go on to study further postgraduate qualifications such as an MA, MSc or PhD.  So whatever career path appeals to you, you can choose between using the degree as the first step in your career as a professional psychologist or as a more general springboard to a wide range of people-oriented occupations.  Also check out the BPS careers web site for further information about career paths using your psychology degree.

Click here to find out about the career journeys of some of our graduates.