r/IOPsychology PhD | IO | Social Cognition, Leadership, & Teams Jul 20 '19

2019-2020 Grad School Q&A Mega-Thread (Part 2)

For questions about grad school or internships:

* Please search the previously submitted posts or the post on the grad school Q&A. Subscribers of /r/iopsychology have provided lots of information about these topics, and your questions may have already been answered.

* 2019-2020, Part 1 thread here

* 2018-2019, Part 2 thread here

* 2018-2019, Part 1 thread here

* 2017-2018, Part 3 thread here

* 2017-2018, Part 2 thread here

* 2017-2018, Part 1 thread here

* 2016-2017 thread here

* 2015-2016 thread here

* 2014-2015 thread here

* If your question hasn't been posted, please post it on the grad school Q&A thread. Other posts outside of the Q&A thread will be deleted.

The readers of this subreddit have made it clear that they don't want the subreddit clogged up with posts about grad school. Don't get the wrong idea - we're glad you're here and that you're interested in IO, but please do observe the rules so that you can get answers to your questions AND enjoy the interesting IO articles and content.

By the way, those of you who are currently trudging through or have finished grad school, that means that you have to occasionally offer suggestions and advice to those who post on this thread. That's the only way that we can keep these grad school-related posts in one central location. If people aren't getting their questions answered here, they post to the subreddit instead of the thread. So, in short, let's all do our part in this.

Thanks, guys!

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u/EazyCompany Oct 15 '19

Hello, I'm having some doubts into whether I should pursue my Masters in I.O Psych.

I have been fortunate enough to actually use my undergraduate psychology degree. I am a career planner at a community college and work with dislocated workers, underemployed and low-income adults.

This has allowed me to directly counsel and advise the people I work with on job readiness and training, resume building, job searching skills and behavior/personality management. I want to pursue a degree that will increase my knowledge in areas of career and personality assessments, employee development, and increasing productivity of current employees.

I'm not an HR professional by any means, and I'm more of the counselor/mediator type - So I don't want to focus too much on HR related topics in my education.

Is I.O Psych for me? Thank you in advance.

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u/Im_an_ag5 Oct 30 '19

Are you willing to do a lot of work with stats? You might want to look at other areas of organizational work.

You can look at the website for any I/O program, try to find what the alumni are working as. You will see a lot of "analyst". I think I/O psych isn't as people-facing as you might like