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I'm thinking of getting my MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology!

DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
edited November 2011 in General Banter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_and_organizational_psychology
http://www.sjsu.edu/psych/GraduatePrograms/industrialpsych/index.htm
http://www.socialpsychology.org/io.htm


I have about a year left for a BS in Psychology and was contemplating in getting a MSW (Masters in Social Work), but it seems that MS in IO, might be more suitable for me.

Any thoughts, opinions, experiences you heard about IO, would be great!:)

Thank You,
Leon

Comments

  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    This seems very practical. I've attended seminars where they discuss personality types and what that means for personnel management. That's probably the kind of thing you'd be doing. What is the job market like in this field? Would you be self-employed, or would you be able to be on someone's payroll?
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Both.
    Thank you for responding!
    Funny, I was just going to send you this, as I know not many people will respond:!)
    This is the suggestions I got on TheTaoBums.com forums.


    http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?/topic/21258-im-thinking-of-getting-my-ms-in-industrial-and-organizational-psychology/
  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    hm. The one person who actually knew people with this type of degree really didn't say much about what kind of jobs they had. You might try to get back to that member to get more info.

    I think the advice to look at psych applications in the medical field was good, I was starting to come to the same conclusion. I recently did a job search on some jobs websites, and the majority of listings were medical-related. With the aging of the population and all, that's going to be a trend for some time. Keep doing research on this issue. Try posting on Zenforum, and see what responses you get.

    The only possible obstacle to gearing your career toward the med field would be if you're not interested in that type of environment. For example, I imagine there is some demand for hospice counseling, end-of-life counseling, counseling for people facing serious illness. (Just thinking out loud.) Or counseling people who live with disabilities, kids facing disability. I think it takes a certain type of person to be able to handle that set of issues.
  • AMHAMH
    very interesting, I may look at this more. Do you need a psychology degree specifically? I have a BA in Humanities and a MA in Education. I think it would be interesting to add this to the education field or out of school time programming that I currently work in. Actually I am drawn to working with special ed/affective needs as well. Too many interests, too little tim
  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    @AHeerdt I wonder if you could use it to train teachers to be more effective in the classroom. But you'd need some background in psychology, because it's about analyzing personality types, people's psychological strengths and weaknesses, and how that determines what kind of environment they work best in, or what types of tasks fit them best, what types of learning styles they have, etc. But I would think that could be applied to great effect in analyzing children's learning, coping and interactive styles.

    Special ed teachers have virtually guaranteed job stability, I've heard. Even if there are budget cuts for the teaching staff, meaning lay-offs, the schools still need their special ed teachers. Those never get cut.
  • AMHAMH
    The way that special education would be affordable and reasonable for me to add to my degree is a program where you get hired as a special education teacher and then earn the degree. I am still finding that teachers with classroom experience who want to do the same thing are preferred. I have about 4 years to stay in this place for my son's school (btw he is having a much better year and connecting to people and playing lots more guitar, he is a guitar major at Denver School of the Arts) so not being able to relocate is an issue right now, however I am seeing what shows up in my field of vision.

    I think that sounds like a great choice, especially since I think front line psychologists tend todeal with burn out.
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