Industrial Psychologist
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Job Description
An industrial and organizational psychologist studies the behaviors of humans in the workforce.
Definition:
A person who collects problems from people and examine them to help resolve work-related problems that arise due to psychological actions.
Three Duties of an Industrial Psychologist
Access job performance
They record employee's behaviors and feelings and see if they somehow reflect the way the business runs, and better determines what the problem may be.
Increase business efficiency
By evaluating the employees, the psychologists can see how to make the business run better by the problems tit may be having due to the employees reactions.
Study Consumer Behavior
Just like the employees, they try to determine how the consumers react toward a business to see if the problems lie within the eye of the consumer, or if the business needs to improve based on their reactions.
Average Salary: For university psychologists, they can average around $70,000 while private psychologists average $100,000.
Education, Licenses and Certifications
They need a master's degree in psychology. Some use the voluntary certification from the American Board of Organizational and Business Consulting Psychology (ABOBCP). If they have to work in another state, they only have a short amount of time if they are not insured and/or certified in that other state.