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ERIC Number: ED256977
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1984-Apr
Pages: 28
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Psychologists in Education and Industry: A Linkage.
Newsome, Teresa I.; Stilwell, William E.
Changes in the employment patterns of psychologists have been predicted and confirmed by various researchers. To explore the training and employment patterns of doctoral level counseling, developmental, educational, and school psychologists, data were gathered from 45 doctorate-granting universities, 55 comprehensive colleges and universities, and the second 100 largest corporate employers. In addition, the linkage strategies used by these respondents were examined. Participants from these training programs and industrial corporations completed questionnaires on their anticipated training and employment patterns for selected behavioral scientists over the period 1983-1988, and on possible strategies to cope with changing employment patterns. Usable data from 45 academic respondents and 13 industrial respondents indicated that admission patterns varied widely among the different training programs, and suggested that these programs required varying numbers of years of graduate training. Employment patterns for the selected doctoral level psychologists indicated that inexperienced Ph.D. psychologists would find no employment in industry, but that new Ph.D.'s in counseling and school psychology would have more employment opportunities in academia than would developmental and educational psychologists. The findings indicate that training programs are doing little to enhance their students' marketability with industry. (Seven recommendations for enhancing graduates' marketability with industry are given.) (NRB)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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