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What are the placement opportunities for a Psychology student?

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RE: What are the placement opportunities for a Psychology student?

Dr Aparna
Dr Aparna
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PhD Organizational Psychology
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Hello

 
Thank you for choosing careerguide and writing to us. I appreciate your interest in psychology and I am glad to offer you some insight into psychology placement opportunities in India. First of all you need to understand that Psychology is a broad science with a variety of divisions. If you study Psychology at degree level in India, you are required to choose a major or an elective subject as part of the degree. This specialization leads you to a career in future. For example, students have options in specializing in clinical psychology, industrial psychology, counselling psychology or educational psychology. Based on the elective you choose you will work in careers associated to that elective. As said, Psychology is vast and do you know how many branches does it have and what are more popular among Indian students? To have a better understanding, have a look at this picture below.
 
 
In India, you have very good placement opportunities with Clinical psychology and Counselling psychology. If you choose to study Industrial/ organisational psychology you can also work in corporates in human resource department.
 
 
Further to this, you can also work at various sectors with a degree in Psychology varying from education sector to hospital or other industry sector. If you look at the picture below, you can understand the types of sectors you can work at.
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With specializations in Psychology, you can find placement opportunities at above sectors. For example, if you specialize in Clinical psychology you can work at universities lab and hospital labs. If you specialize in educational psychology, you can work at schools. If you specialize in Industrial/ organisational psychology you could work for Business and non-profit organizations. If you study Counselling psychology, you can either work for a registered or licensed practitioner or start your own practice consultancy and work as a family counsellor/ child counsellor/ education counsellor/ career counsellor.
 
Finally, to give you some in-depth clarity, I can brief you where and what psychologists are likely to do in each sector. Look at the picture below,
From the above picture, you can develop a good understanding of where you could target for potential jobs. With a degree in Psychology and according to the specialization you choose, you can target the industries accordingly.
--> Health/ education/ childcare: Health psychology, Child psychology and educational psychology specializations.
-->Business sector: Industrial/ organisational psychology
-->Social work: Rehabilitation psychology, adult psychology, child psychology and health psychology
--&gt;Marketing: Consumer psychology
-->Professional psychology: Clinical psychology specialization.
 
Hope the briefing is of a good help to you. All the best.
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