Career crossroad/s - Psych Major

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Dear TS, yes you are clear on what you want but at the same time you have to be realistic on what is out there in the market. If you want something related to your degree, you can try for MSF or NCSS. I am sure they are looking for people with social sciences degree and with an aptitude to help people.

It doesn't matter that your myers briggs result is ISFJ or INTJ, it doesn't determine how successful you will be. No point using such results to justify that you are not cut out for certain jobs, I believe that it's the attitude that determines. Just bear in mind that because you are a fresh graduate, the employers will have an upper hand to choose.

Just asking... Have you started applying for jobs or going for interviews?
Keep an open mind and all the best to you.

MSF or NCSS might not want him. He is not local uni grad, his degree is from UK, but refuse to say which uni. So if it's from the top few uni then ok still got chance, if not then unless shortage ministry seldom hire mid tier foreign uni grads.

As for that psychology result agree with you its mostly theory, one definitely should not choose jobs based on some online survey question. He just keep using his introvert as excuse not to do a lot of jobs, but half the population is introvert anyway. The only difference is they don't have a rich family like him so they cannot afford to laze around being picky.

Don’t waste your time in explaining what you like to do or not.
You can come here together with fellow anonymous and stroke each other’s’ egos in flaming those corporate losers.
At the end of the day, the one that is still at the crossroad is still you.

Can’t believe that you still have that luxury to pick when you don’t have that privilege.
Just go out there and apply for a corporate job- doesn’t mean that you apply = getting the job.
You know that you are not good enough to get those specialized psych-related jobs so why still hiam?
Trust me there are a whole lot of fresh grads out there and I don’t have to put in much effort to get 1 diligent one.

Just curious, what do you want TS? Fishing for some compliments that you can apply for any job you want and you can excel in them.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Don’t waste your time in explaining what you like to do or not.
You can come here together with fellow anonymous and stroke each other’s’ egos in flaming those corporate losers.
At the end of the day, the one that is still at the crossroad is still you.

Can’t believe that you still have that luxury to pick when you don’t have that privilege.
Just go out there and apply for a corporate job- doesn’t mean that you apply = getting the job.
You know that you are not good enough to get those specialized psych-related jobs so why still hiam?
Trust me there are a whole lot of fresh grads out there and I don’t have to put in much effort to get 1 diligent one.

Just curious, what do you want TS? Fishing for some compliments that you can apply for any job you want and you can excel in them.

My gut sense is TS has no intention of really stepping up. He seems enamored with the idea of spending more money & years studying for additional degrees and just hoping someone here will justify his decision for him.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

My gut sense is TS has no intention of really stepping up. He seems enamored with the idea of spending more money & years studying for additional degrees and just hoping someone here will justify his decision for him.

makes sense for him. dun forget he admit he come from rich family, so just ask lao peh to pay easy peasy.

You might be interested in some of the jobs posted in this Non-Profit jobs sg facebook group - s://.facebook.com/groups/119735201555/

If you want to try out private sector jobs, you can consider finding an internship - ://.*************/jobs/latest

If you are willing to consider HR, you can consider courses such as -
://.smu.edu.sg/programmes/professional/hrgradcert
://.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/birkbeck/organizational-psychology-msc-postgraduate-diploma
://.londoninternational.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/birkbeck/human-resource-management-msc-postgraduate-diploma

There's a specific thread on HR matters too - ://forums.salary.sg/income-jobs/1768-hr-related-jobs-how-much-you-earning-13.html

Originally Posted by ambivalent

[B]Online blog-shop management (Ever tried my hands at selling apparel online - similar to what those blog-shops are doing)

Do you have HTML/photoshop/CMS experience?
You can consider going into e-commerce management, web content management, online community management.

Originally Posted by ambivalent

Writing (guest writer for a psych blog - voluntary. I'd welcome any opportunities to write, be it ad-hoc or paid).

Beef up your writing portfolio.
Volunteer - ://.creativesforcauses.com/
Freelance work - s://.facebook.com/groups/119326031532307/

Originally Posted by ambivalent

Outreach Work (pertaining to children & communities like PA/the likes)

You can consider civil service jobs in MCCY and National Youth Council.

Originally Posted by ambivalent

Outreach work - Career counseling, volunteer management

Most of the universities here have career counseling teams.

You say that you are:

"Weak and little interest in numbers/math/engineering"

So why are you even considering Masters degree where it is ALL about numbers/maths/statistics?

Even if you get a Masters (distance learning), its totally useless:

://.singaporepsychologicalsociety.org/2011/?page_id=42

"The Singapore Psychological Society does not and has not accredited any offshore psychology programs that are conducted in Singapore. Several local companies have falsely claimed that the Singapore Psychological Society accredits their offshore psychology programs. One such company was asked to publish a Notice of Apology to the SPS for falsely claiming that their offshore psychology programme is accredited by the SPS ( The Straits Times , January 31, 2001, page C25).B: by the Singapore Government"

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I'm not TS but I also want this kind of job. But cannot find leh. I have a FASS general degree but also don't want to do comms or hr. Where to find your kind of sit around desk type email use computer job? What's the job title, for example, in public sector? I'm sincerely asking because I really don't know..the job descriptions all don't sound like what you said.

here's an example of one....
s://.jobsbank.gov.sg/ICMSPortal/portlets/JobBankHandler/SearchDetail.do?id=JOB-2015-0238514

link doesn't work but you can search for "archivist" in the jobs bank

[moonlightlover]

Hey ambivalent, pm me. Psych major here too, and well what I'm doing now is totally irrelevant. Would love to connect with you and discuss further about the opportunities. I can't seem to pm you though idk why :/