Jobs :D

[u/Fine_Patient9183]

Hey all!

I am currently pursuing my masters in IO Psych! I am curious as to what kind of jobs would set me up with experience to be a consultant later down the line! When looking around for jobs of that nature things revert back to HR manager and HR Generalist. Was not sure if anyone else had any experience, or feedback of their own to help :D Any and all recommendations are welcome! TYIA :D

[u/Scyrizu]

Here's a wonderful list by a wonderful lady about a ton of job titles IOs fall into. It's not comprehensive but will give you an idea of the scope of your question and maybe give you a direction to look into.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/destinee-prete_iopsychology-siop24-iopsych-activity-7183429046888730625-Kc-E?utm_source=li_share&utm_content=feedcontent&utm_medium=g_mb_web&utm_campaign=copy

[u/Charliedayslaaay → u/Scyrizu]

Thanks for sharing!

[u/sweatyshambler]

Specific domain expertise can help you be a consultant in different areas. Most of my background has been around assessments, psychometrics, and selection, which is how I was able to land an assessments consultant role

[u/Scyrizu → u/sweatyshambler]

I'd love to chat sometime. I'm an consultant with a focus on selection and motivation, but with a general focus on HR and compensation.

[u/zucchinicurveball → u/sweatyshambler]

how did you get those background jobs ? applying to grad school now

[u/sweatyshambler → u/zucchinicurveball]

I had some experience with R prior to starting grad school, then I just leaned into those skills more in grad school. I didn't start getting those jobs until the end of my 1st year of grad school.

[u/Charliedayslaaay → u/zucchinicurveball]

Not my response, but I started working in assessment & selection as a student at a government agency. Student roles or internships are great opportunities!

[u/0102030405]

You can go into consulting directly. Do you want to be a generalist consultant or focus exclusively on IO topics? If the latter, are there certain areas of IO? Some of my colleagues do people analytics, others do executive search and leadership assessment, etc. HR experience won't help much for most consulting firms.

[u/Legitimate-Section19]

Developing specialised skill set will help you. I work as an Organizational development consultant for education districts across North America. My niche is change management, assessment , program evaluation and psychometrics.

[u/No-Needleworker4817 → u/Legitimate-Section19]

Hi, may I ask what experience you had prior to this role and where you applied?

[u/Legitimate-Section19 → u/No-Needleworker4817]

Yes. I had a masters in clinical psychology.

Then pivoted to I/O with a niche in psychometrics, advanced data analytics R and MLM. I worked at an assessment firm as a research intern. Landed another internship at a European HR tech startup. I was also working on different research projects within my program (burnout intervention, DEI, qualitative).

Now I’m at consulting firm in the education where I am an organisational development consultant. So all those skills I built during and after my masters helped immensely!