Career Route and Path After Completion of Undergraduate Psychology Degree Programme

This document discusses the career route and path after completing an undergraduate psychology degree programme. It explores various job opportunities and roles in the field of psychology, such as child care worker, laboratory assistant, sales representative, psychiatric technician, social service specialist, case manager, and teacher. The document also provides references for further reading.

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Career rout and path after completion of undergraduate psychology degree programme
After completing undergraduate
psychology degree, it is
important for students to select a
better career route. Bachelors in
psychology is a degree that takes
4 years to complete. It is the
science study of behaviour in
which students learn ways of
understanding human behaviours
and others.
Main processing styles. There is
common career path that
students who completed
bachelor’s degree in psychology
can choose such as:
Career counsellor: Students
who have completed degree in
psychology can help job seekers
in discovering their potential.
They can also help them out in
performing self-assessment in
order to known themselves,
identifying their strengths and
weaknesses.
Case manager: Case manager is
known as social and human
service assistant who provides
Child care worker: After having
experience of case manager,
psychology students can work directly
as a partial care worker in child ward.
They can provide child mental care.
After school settings, they can help
children in improving their health by
knowing their behaviour.
Laboratory assistant: Students can
better use their bachelor’s degree of
psychology by pursuing a career as a
laboratory assistant. In this field, they
can experiment and research about
psychology. By working actively in
government agencies and university
psychology programs as a laboratory
assistant they can develop their career
and increase knowledge.
Psychiatric technician: Students with
undergraduate degree in psychology
can prepare themselves to work in the
field of human service and mental
health. They are not allowed to work
as a psychologist but there are few job
positions are available in which they
can work as a mental health technician
and psychiatric technician.
Rehabilitation specialist:
Students can work as rehabilitation
assistant and can assist those people who
are struggling with mental as well as some
physical disabilities into society (Oswald,
Huck and Williams, 2020). The main aim
of working as this is to make such people
self-sufficient and improve quality of lives
of people.
Sales representatives: It is
surprising but there are some psychology
undergrads who have become successful
in sales field. Such students have an
effective interpersonal communication
skill that can qualify them for both
marketing and sales position. They have
good understanding of human behaviours
so they can make career and select sales
representative.
Social service specialist: After working
as a Lab technician, mental child care,
students with bachelor degree in
psychology, can become social service
specialist. There are several non-profit
and government agencies where they can
provide social services to people with
mental health problems. Community

counselling to people that face
some critical problems. By
providing recovery plans and by
working with other healthcare
service providers they can
monitor their client progress.
support, client counselling and other case
management services can be performed
(Hamilton and et.al., 2018).
Teachers: After working as a social
service specialist, students can gain
knowledge and experience to the great
extent and experience is must for career
development. After working as, a Lab
technician and others, students with
bachelor degree in psychology can find
jobs at middle schools, elementary
schools and high schools.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hamilton, K. and et.al., 2018. Increasing psychological literacy and work readiness of Australian
psychology undergraduates through a capstone and work‐integrated learning
experience: Current issues and what needs to be done. Australian Psychologist. 53(2).
pp.151-160.
Oswald, G.R., Huck, G.E. and Williams, L.A.R., 2020. Undergraduate Rehabilitation Student
Perceptions of Postgraduation Outcomes and Professional Identity. Journal of Applied
Rehabilitation Counseling.