Innovative Careers
A psychology doctorate doesn’t have to limit your career options. Instead, it can be an open door to fields such as technical writing, human factors research, management, criminal justice or even interior design.
Featured APA Publication
Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You, Second Edition
List Price: $29.95
Member/Affiliate Price: $24.95
Softcover: December 2006
Featured APA Organization
The Center for Workforce Studies
The primary mission of the Center for Workforce Studies is to collect, analyze and disseminate information relevant to psychology’s labor force and educational system.
Career Information
- The Non-Academic Career Path
- Non-Academic Careers
- Variations on the Theme of Academic Careers: The Non-tenure Track Position
Learning how to secure a non-tenure track position is becoming increasingly important because the largest increase in university faculty positions in recent years has been in the category of full-time, non-tenure track positions.
- Variations on the Theme of Academic Careers: Beyond a Psychology Department
The interdisciplinary nature of psychology makes individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology attractive as faculty members in a number of different academic settings
Additional Web Resources
- Academy of Management
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- AAAS / ScienceCareers
- American Association of Artificial Intelligence
- Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology
- Association for Chemoreception Scientists
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Behavior Analysis Resources
- Behavior Online
- Careers in Psychology (provided by the University of York)
- Environmental Careers Organization
- ErgoWeb: The Place for Ergonomics
- Graduate School and Careers in Psychology
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- International Association of Applied Psychology
- Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health
- National Academy of Neuropsychology
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Neuropsychology Central
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Pages for Exploring Particular Areas of Psychology
- Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington, DC
- Psycholoquy
- Society for Computers in Psychology
- Society for Human Resource Management
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction
- Traffic Psychology
