Originally posted by: Koing
Originally posted by: ebaycj
Originally posted by: Koing
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Originally posted by: aswedc
that she is freaking out says she didn't anticipate this. sorry, but that's just stupid. getting a psych degree because you love the subject is one thing. getting it and not realizing it's not useful in the job market is another. lack of planning ftl.
Out of all my friends who graduated from college, only 1 or 2 is doing something in line with their degree. A lot of companies don't care what your major was, as long as you get the degree.
Indeed.
Man theres a lot of dogging on Psych majors...
If she has a good degree she can apply to all the banking, finance and other accountancy jobs if that is what she wants to do.
Theres a lot of Statistics in Pyschology in England and it is just like any other degree. If you have a decent degree class you can apply to all the other finance etc type of jobs.
Koing
I have a feeling that they're not in the UK.
Things are changing here in the US, and very quickly. It used to be that any Bachelor's degree from any decent University meant you would have no problem getting a job. Now employers tend to look at specific skill sets and whether or not you have experience in them and/or have been educated in them. "Generic" bachelor's degrees (PolySci, Psych, Recreation, History, etc...) are becoming more and more worthless each and every day.
Thats weird...
In England they look for the ability to learn and that your a capable perso with all around skills.
Koing
well my experience so far is that they simply do "pick a name out of hat" thing. granted this was just for placement students....since we'd only be working a year i doubt they would of cared much who they got, they were getting a undergrad mech engineer from a top uni either way.
i stil think that degrees like this are rather limiting... i mean my ex does sociology and anthropology and guess what job she's lined up, teaching sociology at our old college. thats just a worthless cycle... learn sociology -> get degree in sociology -> take teachers course -> teach others sociology -> they get degrees in sociology -> they take teachers course -> they come back to teach sociology
its like a self sustaining little cycle.
one of my other friends went to hull to do film and american studies.... yeah good luck with that. shes also coming back to teach film studies at the same college, which as far as i know meant spending 2 doubles a week watching movies then commenting on them, and as far as i can see i can sign up to a blog site and do exactly the same without having to be taught.
a third went to sheffield to do economics, it turns out the "bible club" she went to (because she was mildly serious catholic) managed to change her mind and get her to sign on to bible studies instead. she did one full year of economics, joined the bible bashers in 2nd year and a few weeks later was doing bible studies instead. such a waste.
at the company im working at now, on placement, it seems they'll hire absolutely anyone at the minute! everyones retiring and they got no replacements.