Workforce Resources

Undergraduate Students December 2, 2019

The “good job” you want may not be “good for you”

Your Ability to Understand This Puzzling Statement Could Help You Maximize Your Future Occupational Success

A good way to decide if you should read this blog is to determine how well your beliefs about your future career and your current education agree with the following quotes from the results of a Gallup poll of more than 30,000 college graduates across the United States who rated both the importance of their future occupations and the importance of the role their college education will play in helping them to achieve their occupational aspirations.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers November 11, 2019

5 Challenges to Collecting Data on the Psychology Workforce

Seven years ago, when I first began working at the Center for Workforce Studies (CWS), my colleagues and I were given the task of collecting, mining, analyzing, and disseminating data that would be relevant to the psychology workforce and education pipeline. I naively asked myself, “how hard could this be?” After all, other disciplines seemed to be doing it just fine. At the time, I had no idea just how immensely difficult this task would prove to be.

Chess. White board with chess figures on it. Plan of battle.

Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers March 25, 2019

Defending the major: Exploiting the workforce advantage of the psychology degree

Although the vast majority of students who declare majors in psychology claim that they aspire to continue their education in graduate school, the reality is that most psychology graduates will instead enter the workforce. The Center for Workforce Studies of the American Psychological Association estimates that approximately 73 percent of psychology majors will end up using the knowledge and skills they acquired in some kind of workforce job after graduation (Lin & Stamm, 2018).

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Students June 4, 2018

Graduating with a degree in psychology? Check out what the data say about careers, workforce demographics, salaries and more!

Did you know that an estimated 3.4 million individuals in the United States hold a bachelor’s degree in psychology and that younger psychologists are more racially/ethnically diverse than older ones? The APA Center for Workforce Studies maintains a series of interactive data tools to answer these and other questions about the psychology workforce and education pipeline. Hold your mouse over the graphs and figures, and a box pops up with additional information.

Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Undergraduate Students September 19, 2016

Location, location, location: what it’s like to be a licensed clinical psychologist in different parts of the United States

Have you ever wondered what the distribution of licensed psychologists looks like in the United States?

A recent report from the American Psychological Association’s Center for Workforce Studies examined data from state licensing boards of 50 states and Washington, D.C., from 2012-2015. This report presents a county-level look at the distribution of licensed psychologists in the United States.