Using your subject: Psychology
Learn how to use a degree in Psychology to enhance your career prospects
A psychology degree is a great starting point for a career in both science and the arts, as it equips you with a range of skills and opens up opportunities with a variety of employers These skills, along with other factors of career choice – what you like doing (your interests), what’s important to you (your values) and your personality type – will help you make informed career decisions.
Career options
Some of the main career options with a Psychology degree are:
- Clinical psychologist
- Counselling psychologist
- Educational psychologist
- Forensic psychologist
- Further education teacher
- Health psychologist
- High intensity therapist
- Occupational psychologist
- Psychological wellbeing practitioner
- Sport and exercise psychologist
You can find out more about these on Prospects what can I do with a psychology degree? as well as the wide variety of jobs where your skills and knowledge are applicable. TARGETjobs also have a useful section on Psychology Careers.
British Psychological Society
The BPS have a comprehensive resource detailing a range of different Psychology career pathways. This provides information videos and case studies to help you with your careers research.
NHS Psychology
- NHS Scotland Psychology Careers
- NHS UK – Psychological Professions careers information
- Information on NES Scotland Applied Psychological Professions Training programmes
Resources to help with your careers research
- The icould.com website also has a full range of careers information interviews and case studies of psychology based careers
- To help you explore the wide range of career options open to you have a look at Prospects what can I do with my degree? and take the Prospects Career Planner Quiz
- ClinPsy Forum for those interested in Clinical Psychology
Volunteering
If you are interested in gaining some voluntary experience locally you may find the following websites helpful
- Volunteer Scotland advertises a number of local and national volunteering vacancies
- Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action advertises a number of Dundee based volunteering vacancies
Find a graduate job
- NHS Scotland – Assistant Psychologist positions
- NHS Jobs England – Assistant Psychologist , Trainee positions
- Jobs in Psychology – BPS website for Psychology vacancies
- BMJ Careers- Mental Health Jobs – Website dedicated to Mental health roles
- Goodmoves – charity and voluntary sector recruitment – Website dedicated to roles in Scotland’s charitable sector
General job searching sites for internships and graduates – all disciplines
The following websites may be helpful to search the wider job market, where your transferable skills can be applied.
- University of Dundee JobShop
- Prospects
- TARGETjobs
- Milkround
- GradJobs
- Bright Green Business
- GoinGlobal– international internships and job options
Graduate schemes
Many leading UK employers across all industries run graduate training programmes, to discover the benefits of these schemes and how you apply the links below will help: