Community service jobs
abound for psych grads
Editor’s note: This article is part
of a series on the job-market
outlook for University
graduates.
By Marian Green
Of the Emerald
University psychology majors
probably won’t get rich, but at
least they’ll find a plentiful job
market.
"You hear about $65-an-hour
psychiatric therapists, but those
are very rare,” says psychology
peer advisor Dennis Mohatt.
Graduates with bachelor’s
degrees usually begin their car
eers by getting hands-on ex
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perience with human support
programs such as Vista, Mohatt
says.
With that experience, they of
ten find jobs with community
organizations where they
evaluate the performance of
personnel-relations programs
and teach supervisors com
munication skills, he says.
Industrial-organizational psy
chology, as that field of psy
chology is known, is really
opening up, Mohatt says.
Another way to get exper
ience is to take the psychology
department’s course in ad
vanced-applied psychology,
which is applying psychology to
work environments. The one
year, senior-level sequence in
cludes an internship and
requires a thesis. It provides the
experience needed to land a job
in the industrial-organizational
field, he says.
Mohatt works as an intern for
the City of Eugene evaluating
the effectiveness of personnel
programs and teaching com
munication skills to supervisors.
"Coming out of this program,
there are a lot of opportunities.
Mohatt says there is a grow
ing need for industrial-organ
izational psychologists. One ex
ample of this need is the car
industry.
"The Japanese car makers
are out-producing the American
companies,” he says. “Workers
find themselves at odds with
how the system is run, and in
dustrial-organizational psy
chologists are trying to make it
better.”
In addition, graduates land
jobs with organizations such as
Serenity Lane Alcoholic Treat
ment Center, Whitebird Clinic or
children’s shelters, Mohatt says.
And while the Reagan Ad
ministration’s cuts in human
services somewhat reduce the
job opportunities, the cuts ac
tually will create a need for
human services, he says.
But Mohatt cautions students
who want to earn high salaries
in a psycholgy career.
"You’re in a helping posi
tion,” Mohatt says. "When you
decide to work for people,
you’re giving up that goal to
make a lot of money.”
Mohatt estimates graduates
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