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Future Students> Careeers> Who Employs Psychologists?

Who Employs Psychologists?

Who employs Psychologists and Psychology graduates?

Sample work settings

  • Businesses
  • Career Services
  • Centres for the developmentally disabled
  • Community Agencies
  • Consulting Firms
  • Correctional facilities and prisons
  • Defence Forces
  • Family and Health Services
  • Government organisations
  • Hospitals
  • Law courts
  • Market Research Companies
  • Mental Health organisations
  • Non-Profit organisations
  • Police Force
  • Professional Associations
  • Private clinics
  • Recruitment Agencies
  • Rehabilitation Agencies
  • Research Institutions
  • Schools
  • Social welfare services
  • Substance abuse services
  • Test development corporations
  • Training and Development Services
  • Universities
  • Youth Services
A variety of public and private Hospitals:

Units include:

  • Anxiety Disorders clinic
  • Brain Injury Unit
  • Clinical Psychology Service
  • Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders
  • Department of Medical Psychology
  • Drug & Alcohol Services
  • Eating Disorders unit
  • Health Service
  • Pain Management and Research unit
  • Psychiatry unit
  • Rehabilitation Unit
Examples of employing organisations (public and private)

  • AMP
  • Andersen Consulting
  • Allworth Juniper Psychologists
  • Ansett Australia
  • Aristocrat Leisure Industries
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Australian Council for Educational research (ACER)
  • Australian Defence Force
  • Australian Public Service
  • Bureau of Air Safety Investigation
  • Chandler & Macleod
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • Coyne Didsbury Pty Ltd
  • Davidson Trahaire
  • Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO)
  • Deloitte Consulting
  • Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
  • Department of Corrections
  • Department of Education, Training and Youth affairs (DETYA)
  • Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
  • Department of Community Services (DOCS)
  • Department of Juvenile Justice
  • DDI Asia Pacific
  • Ericsson Australia Pty Ltd
  • First Data Resources Australia
  • Health Insurance Commission
  • Industrial Consultant Psychologists
  • Lion Nathan
  • Long Bay Correctional Centre
  • Macquarie Bank Limited
  • Mercer Cullen Egan Dell
  • Morgan & Banks
  • NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
  • Pricewaterhouse Coopers
  • Psychological Corp
  • Roads & Traffic Authority NSW
  • Royal Australian Navy
  • Royal Blind Society
  • Saville & Holdsworth
  • Sydney Water
  • State Rail Authority
  • Telstra Corporation Limited
  • Westpac Banking Corporation
  • Worksafe Australia – National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
  • Workshift Pty Ltd
For some examples of where UNSW Graduates have been employed, go to: Graduate Destination Survey: http://www.careers.unsw.edu.au/student/GDS/

For some more detailed examples, go to the Graduate Career Profiles page.