- From 2015 to 2017, 6,922 unique job advertisements were posted to PsycCareers,1,2 APA’s premier career platform.
- Most ads were for health service psychologist positions (48 percent) and faculty positions (37 percent). The remaining 14 percent consisted of researcher positions, applied psychologist positions, nonfaculty educator positions and other positions.3 The proportion of job ads for each position type stayed relatively consistent across years.4
- The site averaged 2,307 job ads annually, and there were seasonal spikes in the number of faculty postings from July to November, consistent with the academic hiring cycle. Health service psychologist and other position ads were spread out more evenly across the year.
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1PsycCareers is APA’s job advertising and search platform, which allows employers to post openings for psychology-based positions for a fee. Job postings may include multiple positions.
2American Psychological Association. (2018). 2015–17 Psychology Job Advertisements: An Overview. Washington, DC: Author.
3Numbers do not sum to 100 percent due to rounding.
4Health service psychologist positions refer to positions that provide clinical services, including those providing services in educational settings. Examples include clinical neuropsychologists, child and adolescent psychologists, and clinical health psychologists. Examples of faculty positions include professors, associate professors and assistant professors. Examples of researcher positions include research psychologists, postdoctoral researchers and research scientists. Applied psychologist positions include forensic psychologists, engineering and human factors psychologists, and industrial/organizational psychologists. Nonfaculty educator jobs include K–12 educators as well as educator positions without faculty rank. Other positions include jobs that do not fall into any other category.
