Career Exploration, Career Information, Career-Planning, Job Listings
-America's Job Bank: maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor and state public employment service agencies
-Careers.wsj.com:
a site sponsored by the Wall Street Journal; inclues a wealth of
practical information about
careers--e.g. salaries, job-hunting
advice, cover letters and resumes, interviewing tips, etc.
-JobWeb:
a comprehensive site maintained by the National Association of Colleges
and Employers; includes assessment
tools, resources for people with disabilities,
and links to pages providing access to all U.S. universitites and two-year
colleges, among other topics
-Linda
Walsh's home page: a excellent site containing a variety of useful
information about graduate school and careers
developed by Dr. Linda Walsh at
the University of Northern Iowa
-Monster
Campus: maintained by monster.com; contains an extraordinary number
and variety of career resources for
college students
-Occupational
Outlook Handbook Online (OOH): the online version of the
handbook published every two years by the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Department
of Labor; includes job descriptions of every occupation in the U.S., salary
information, educational requirements,
employment outlook, etc.
Note: You can search
for any occupation by clicking on OOH
Online or go directly to the sub-pages for counselors
(master's-and doctoral-level)
and psychologists (PhD
level).
-The Riley
Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet:
maintained by career expert Margaret
Dikel; contains hundreds of links to
careeer and employment information, including salary guides and guidance
-U.S. Department
of Labor: many links for work-related information such as salaries
and workplace legal concerns
(protection against sexual harassment,
etc.)
-Note: For job and career sites not specifically
oriented to psychology, see the "Find Anything" page on Psych Web under
Career
and Job Finding Sites (not specifically for psychologists)
Graduate and Professional School Information
-Linda
Walsh's home page: a fine site containing graduate school and career
information developed by Dr. Linda Walsh
at the
University of Northern Iowa
-Peterson's
Guide: a site that allows you to locate univerities that offer graduate
degrees in all fields (psychology,
education, social work, etc.)
Organizations in Psychology and Related Fields
-American
Psychological Association-Resources for Students: relevant to
psychology graduate students and undergraduate
majors; provides information about the
organization and how to join as a student member, its resources (note the
link to
APA's Association for Graduate Students
in Psychology (APAGS)), and publications (note: you can purchase a copy
of
Graduate Study in Psychology
at this site as well as other materials). Links are also provided to Psi
Chi, the national
honor society in psychology at four-year
schools, and Psi Beta, the national honor society in psychology at two-year
schools.
-American
Psychological Society: provides information about the organization,
its resources (note the link to the APS
Student Caucus).
-National
Association of Social Workers: describes the various fields of social
(including clinical social work, an excellent
career alternative to clinical psychology
for psychology majors) as well as schools of social work in the U.S.
APA-style reference for this page:
Lloyd, M. A. (2003, April 18). Selected websites containing career and graduate school information of interest to psychology majors. [Online]. Available: http://www.psywww.com/careers/websites.htm.
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