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Old 01-07-2015, 10:47 AM
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Why I think Psychology is overrated is because jobs in the industry are very limited, with stiff competition between local and foreign graduates vying for the same position/s.
When has Psychology degree ever been overrated in the first place? Some will say MBA or a Finance related degree is overrated, but Psychology!? It's pretty well known in the market place that Psy degree have limited value in the market besides civil service.

Inadvertently you will find a lot of psy students in areas like comms, marketing, HR admin, events management, sales etc. And it isn't because studying psy actually helps in these jobs, but more like these jobs are so generic and need no special skills that most psy grads no choice
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