Are psychology graduates actually employable?

The degree is definitely highly respected, what is it that you wanted to go into?

I don't know

I know people say nowadays that it's not the degree subject but the transferable skills gained from the degree that will help with successful future careers? is this true? or is a psychology degree not worth it in terms of future earnings and job employment opportunities?

ps I'm looking at doing either a psychology degree or psych with criminology degree (both BPS accredited)
Note I do not want to become a psychologist or psychiatrist or any directly linked careers

You in college Rn? Try websites like fast tomato I recommend if you haven’t already- it tells you based on your interests and grades what you wanna go into. But I recommend do a bit more research into psychology agrees if you’re not entirely sure- hope this was hopeful

I know people say nowadays that it's not the degree subject but the transferable skills gained from the degree that will help with successful future careers? is this true? or is a psychology degree not worth it in terms of future earnings and job employment opportunities?

ps I'm looking at doing either a psychology degree or psych with criminology degree (both BPS accredited)
Note I do not want to become a psychologist or psychiatrist or any directly linked careers

They are probably the two most over-subscribed subjects in terms of the number of people taking the degree and the number of jobs that actually require that specific degree.

I'm afraid it isn't, as a previous posted suggested, a highly respected degree. You can do well from it, but I'd recommend doing it at a RG or other strong university. it's a very weak degree if taken at a relatively weak university and it's one of the worst for actually adding value to graduate prospects.

If you don't want to be a psychologist, then I wouldn't go near it. Do English, History or some other more academic subject.

My daughter and her friends all got decent jobs from it and they didn’t attend a Russell Group Uni, they went to Lancaster. Only one person in her group wanted to be a Psychologist, most people who do that degree just want to work with people in some capacity and enjoy Psychology as a subject more than English, History or other subjects

But Lancaster is a decent university. You do Psychology down the lower end of the academic range and you are just wasting money in terms of the career benefit it will give you.

My daughter and her friends all got decent jobs from it and they didn’t attend a Russell Group Uni, they went to Lancaster. Only one person in her group wanted to be a Psychologist, most people who do that degree just want to work with people in some capacity and enjoy Psychology as a subject more than English, History or other subjects

You have written this before multiple times on the forum. Whilst I respect that this is your experience, I think it's simply completely misleading and as you are a universities forum helper you should show a more realistic and rounded view not from your very narrow personal experience.

Huge numbers of psychology students want to be psychologists. I am not sure why you think otherwise. Some might even misread your posts as that as few people want to be a psychologist then maybe it's not quite a competitive as all these other people are saying.

I agree that most want to work with people in some capacity and enjoy the subject.

People interested in becoming professional Psychologists would surely research it a tiny bit before doing a degree and it is always clear that it is highly competitive.

This is 2019. Whilst it's easy to find out how competitive it is, a lot of people have mental filters and screen out everything except the positive. It's their 'choice', what the hell does anyone else know etc. Also in terms of how competitive it is, it's so many years away it is difficult for students/graduates to actually assess what that actually means. I see this particularly for psychology students at the end of third year/just graduated.

I do wonder whether as a careers adviser people you have seen were people who did want to be psychologists originally and then changed their minds. If you're classifying those people who don't currently, then we're probably in agreement, as during studies/shortly after some do give up on it or change their minds/sound less keen.

I worked with sixth formers in schools so no, they were not people who changed their minds after starting a Psychology degree. Why are you so convinced that everyone who enjoys Psychology at school and wants to continue it should be obsessed with wanting to be a Psychologist. Do you also think that everyone who studies Sociology wants to be a social worker or everyone who studies History wants to be a Historian? Some do, most don't.

You're just setting up false arguments there and your post doesn't address anything I said apart from the first sentence which addresses a limited part of my post. And being argumentative to boot. Well be as you wish.

As you're being so I'll just say rather than wasting any more time that at local universities the opposite of what you say is quoted by academic staff and raise you several more higher education careers advisers. It is said that the majority want to be psychologists. This tallies with my experience of meeting/knowing/reading a lot of CVs of Psychology students/graduates.

The only positives there we can agree on is as the OP doesn't want to do this, that yes there are a lot of alternative jobs they could do, so your comments in that limited light would be positive and encouraging. Furthermore in 2019 the typical Psychology graduate has a packed CV with 5-10 voluntary/employment/placement activities. So they are employable for low level jobs in a variety of fields.