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Is it hard to find a job as a Psychologist

Ubbquittious · 2019-03-25 18:14:27

I know someone recently qualified, depending on drips and drabs of volunteer work for various charities in the hope of some day maybe eventually getting a job with the HSE. Is there a huge surplus of psychologists around and very few paid jobs?

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25-03-2019 7:14pm

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Ubbquittious

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I know someone recently qualified, depending on drips and drabs of volunteer work for various charities in the hope of some day maybe eventually getting a job with the HSE. Is there a huge surplus of psychologists around and very few paid jobs?

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#2 28-03-2019 8:02pm
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The psychologists i know tell me you can't get a job without a post graduate qualification BUT the only reason i met them was that they were working in a different field due to not being able to get a job without a post graduate qualification, so there is massive selection bias there. If they'd managed to get a job in psychology I wouldn't have met them

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#3 28-03-2019 8:06pm
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Most (maybe all) hse clinical psychologists have a PhD. Does your friend have a PhD or just a bachelors/masters?

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