Paul I. Hettich & R. Eric Landrum 
Your Undergraduate Degree in Psychology [EPUB ebook] 
From College to Career

Innovative strategies for psychology majors to survive and thrive in the workforce


Nearly 100, 000 students graduate each year with a bachelor′s degree in psychology, and a majority of these students will enter the workforce instead of pursuing a graduate degree. Many will find themselves tentatively deciding their next steps amid a complex and changing economic and job environment.



In this text, authors and professors Paul I. Hettich and R. Eric Landrum provide innovative strategies and tools for succeeding after college with an undergraduate degree in psychology. Drawing on current research data, applied theory, and both academic and workplace experiences, they help stimulate self-reflection and improve decision making as students approach their careers. The text covers key topics in the college-to-career transition, including career planning and development, identifying and transferring marketable skills, building and sustaining strong networks, understanding what employers want and don′t want, coping with personal life changes, becoming a valued employee, and more.

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Preface

About the Authors

About the Contributing Authors

Part I. Get Ready for Your Transition to the Workplace

1. Meet the New Workplace Realities (and Your Paperback Mentors)

2. Yes! You Can Succeed in Life With a Bachelor′s Degree

3. Make the Most of Your Opportunities–Now!

Part II. Know Thyself–Better!

4. What Is the Secret of Excellent Career Planning? (by Camille Helkowski)

5. Your Journey Through Psychosocial Development Continues Long After Graduation

6. Know the Skills You Need to Succeed (Course Content Is No Longer the Focus)

7. Jump-Start Your Job Search (by John Jameson)

Part III. Onboarding to Work

8. Why Are Attitudes, Motivation, and Work Centrality Important?

9. Your First Real Job? It′s Primarily About Communicating

10. Avoid False Expectations: Onboarding and Your First 90 Days

Part IV. I Graduated and Got a Job: What′s Next?

11. Your Personal Life Changes After College (by Abby [Wilner] Miller)

12. From Know Thyself to Manage Thyself

13. Prime Yourself for More Transitions

14. What Lies Ahead?

Author Index

Subject Index

Over de auteur

R. Eric Landrum is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychological Science at Boise State University, receiving his Ph D in cognitive psychology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.  He is a research generalist, broadly addressing the improvement of teaching and learning, including the long-term retention of introductory psychology content, skills assessment, improving help-seeking behavior, advising innovations, understanding student career paths, the psychology workforce, successful graduate school applications, and more.  Eric has 425+ presentations, 23 books/textbooks, and published 85 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has collaborated with 300+ research assistants and taught 18, 000+ students in 28 years at Boise State.  During Summer 2008, he led an American Psychological Association (APA) working group at the National Conference for Undergraduate Education in Psychology studying the desired results of an undergraduate psychology education, and at the 2014 APA Educational Leadership Conference, Eric was presented with a Presidential Citation for outstanding contributions to the teaching of psychology.  With the 2015 launch of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology journal, he served as inaugural co-editor. He is a member of APA, a fellow of Division Two (Society for the Teaching of Psychology/STP), a fellow of Division One (General Psychology), and served as STP President (2014).  He is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science (named fellow in 2018). During 2016-2017, Eric was President of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association and was President of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology in 2017-2018.  In August 2019, he received the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award, the highest award given to teachers of psychology in America. will serve as the 2015–2016 president of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association.