Driven by the desire to help people and the potential for creative careers, students still flock to psychology.
Many students say they are driven by an interest in helping people or curiosity about the brain.
And even those students who entered graduate school with little knowledge of the psychology job market are discovering that while opportunities for psychologists have changed, new, exciting options are available to them in multidisciplinary settings, primary care, niche practices, pharmaceutical companies and the technology industry. However, new opportunities won't make job hunting less competitive, predict job market observers. But many students are preparing to compete. That doesn't mean, however, that I am not shaping my education in a way that I feel will make me competitive when I graduate. There is a lot of basic science that still needs to be done, and a lot of good work in terms of practice, such as solving cross-cultural conflict.