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Latest post on 18 October 2011 - 23:55

thanks for the advice .i am looking to study through the uk systems although my first degree was via Murdoch, Australia. do you mind if i have your email address to correspond further on this topic please ? mine is [email protected] tia [b'>[/b'>I can probably comment on both, but only from the Australian perspective, so I don't know how relevant that is. Firstly I should let you know that my academic background is Clinical Psych, but career-wise, I have worked in corporate management then into HR - both operationally and strategically. Amongst other industries I have headed HR teams in Law Firms and Professional Services Firms and consulted in Change Management Projects (eg mergers, acquisitions, big corporate restructures etc). So I'm going to comment on the aspect of becoming re-employed after finishing each qualification as a mature aged graduate. Psych first: In Australia, in order to practice, you need to have a Masters and worked under clinical supervision for a period of time before you are allowed to register with the national association of psychologists. So, in summary, you would need to do a 4 year Hons degree, then get someone to agree to take you on for your Masters thesis for however long that will take you (it's governed by you), then you will need to have a supervisor in the workforce. My opinion would be that being a mature age would [u'>not [/u'>set you back. Certainly you wouldn't earn a great deal to start with, but people would look favourably on you because being mature, you have the additional life experience to add in to the academic mix. Of course this might change slightly depending on what area of pscyhology you wish to practice in. Now Law: The big firms that have graduate programmes tend to recruit from the university campus. They don't pay a lot, they work you very long hours and they manage your charge out rate dogmatically. While it will never be said, they do not tend to recuit mature age students. Several reasons - they usually have families and can't put in the late hours often required to help prepare a matter under pressure, they are not so maleable - the grads are pretty much used as "cannon fodder" to do very low level things and are more easily shaped to the firm's culture, they don't want any issues about salary because someone may have had a "career" prior to joining the firm that they feel they should be compensated for. They like their graduate population to be homogenous. I can't comment on small local law firm hiring practices except to say I have never noticed their presence on university campuses. There is a wonderful synergy between the HR background and the psych qualification in these times that you could take full advantage of. Mind you, you could say that about the Law degree too, I suppose, just that I'm biased, LOL. With so many companies undergoing the need for large scale change, I believe there are significant opportunities if you are in the right place (by that I mean you need to be in a city where the head offices are located so that you can work with the decision makers). Psychology and Law are both very broad options. Do you have a feel for your areas of interest?

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