The I/O Psychology Career Starter Kit

Search for Industrial and Organizational Psychologist and you will find very few jobs, and conclude the field has no work in it. The work exists. It is advertised under other names, and knowing them is the single highest-return thing in this document.

Nine real job titles this degree leads to, what each one actually is, and the search terms that surface them: search for the method rather than the title, because survey design and psychometric and assessment centre appear in the descriptions of jobs you would never have searched for.

Then the CV problem. A psychology graduate’s CV lists modules, and an employer does not hire a module. Every line rewritten as evidence, including the counterintuitive one: a null result honestly reported is better evidence of competence than a positive one described vaguely, and almost nobody puts it on a CV because it feels like a failure.

The portfolio problem is next, with three projects that close the gap between graduating and being hireable in about six weeks. Then the interview questions you will actually face, the three worth asking back, and what to do if there are no advertised roles where you live.

It ends past the hiring: being findable, and the first ninety days, including the four mistakes new I/O hires make and the finding nobody wants to deliver.

What it is not: a salary guide. No figures appear, because they vary by country and year beyond what any number survives.

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