Some schools permit students to enter a doctoral program directly from receipt of a bachelor's degree. Nevertheless, to become a Ph.D. clinical psychologist or a university professor takes approximately five to seven years after receiving a bachelor's degree in psychology. This takes determination and confidence, dedication, hard work, passion, a high level of intelligence, and considerable skill. Many combine two or more of these categories. A master's level counselling psychologist may be a service provider and teach at a local college.
Psychologists work in many different settings.
Other employment settings are in advertising, criminal justice, consumer relations and products, telecommunications, military, entertainment, and sports. Many psychologists work in more than one setting, e.g., a professor may be an academic as well as a private consultant, a clinical psychologist may practice in a private clinic as well as a human service agency. Presented below are job titles of various professional careers in psychology. The list is more illustrative of the diversity of careers than an attempt to list all of the hundreds of career paths possible. They are listed alphabetically.