Supplemental Resources

For Faculty: A Formal Introduction to the Resource
For Students: An Online Career-Exploration Resource for Psychology Majors
For Departments: An Online Career-Exploration Resource for Psychology Majors (Poster) - 2016.pptx (Version for modifying to suit your needs)
For Departments: An Online Career-Exploration Resource for Psychology Majors Poster - PDF (Version for printing or viewing on a mobile device)
For High School Teachers: An Online Vocational-Exploration Resource for High School Psychology Students

Author: Drew C. Appleby
Affiliation: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Description: This resource is composed of the following four parts.

• The first (for faculty) is a formal introduction containing ways to use the resource to promote student success and lists of printed and online sources to aid faculty in their career-advising activities.  
• The second (for students) consists of more than 2,400 hotlinks psychology majors can use to explore 300 careers they can prepare to enter that have been organized into 15 broad occupational categories to facilitate searching.  Persons employed in 57 of these careers are psychologists who must hold the appropriate graduate degree. The remaining 243 psychology-related careers (i.e., those that require the demonstration of psychological knowledge and skills, but which do not carry the title of psychologist) are divided almost equally into two categories: those that can be entered with a bachelor’s degree and those that require a graduate degree.  
• The third is a poster departments can print and post. Faculty, advisors, and administrators can use this resource in classes, advising sessions, and departmental websites to help psychology majors begin the process of accomplishing Goal 5: Professional Development of APA’s Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major: Version 2.0 by acquiring an understanding of the “settings in which people with backgrounds in psychology typically work,” thus helping them to “develop meaningful professional directions.” 
• The fourth is a poster that high school teachers can use to help their students begin the process of accomplishing the Vocational Applications component of APA’s National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula by identifying “careers in psychological science and practice,” “careers related to psychology,” and “degree requirements for psychologists and psychology-related careers.”