Career Relevant Skills Psychology Majors Can Acquire
To prepare a resume you need a list of your skills. Which of these do you have? Which will you acquire?
- Approach problems from multiple perspectives
- Critically evaluate evidence
- Notice recurrent patterns and extract general principles without getting bogged down in detail
- Choose approaches to problems and solutions pragmatically
- Write concisely within a predetermined format
- Interpret data summaries and probability statements
- Select, learn, and use appropriate computer applications for different tasks
- Find information using library collections, journals, and data bases
- Gather systematic data
- Operationalize complex concepts
- Read difficult material with a high level of comprehension
- Apply theories and methods to solve real-world problems
- Notice and evaluate environmental factors such as job demands, work setting, and opportunities for habit formation
- Notice and evaluate potential sources of human conflict
- Notice and evaluate signs of mental illness, substance abuse, etc.
- Notice and evaluate social behaviors such as nonverbal signaling and social appropriateness
- Apply empirically based principles of training and discipline
- Design research projects
- Conduct research projects
- Perform statistical analyses
- Design questionnaires, surveys, and tests
- Conduct interviews
- Systematically observe and record behavior
- Perform job analyses
- Code data
- Administer standardized tests
- Work effectively with team members
- Speak effectively in group settings
- Work hard
- Manage time effectively
- Be reliable
- Know one's own skills
- Market oneself effectively