Related Skills:

• Perform institutional research and evaluation.
• Write reports and proposals clearly and objectively.
• Organize and lead groups, organizations, or committees.
• Recognize and understand behavioral and emotional disorders.
• Select, administer, score, and interpret psychological tests.
• Respond in an unbiased and tolerant way to individual differences.
• Display fundamental counseling skills with individuals and groups.
• Collect, record, and report statistical and qualitative information.
• Perform crisis intervention techniques (e.g., listening and referral).
• Perform interviews to learn about people's history, problems, and plans.
• Contribute to program or treatment planning, evaluation, and implementation.
• Demonstrate small group skills (e.g., team building and conflict management).
• Communicate effectively and sensitively in both individual and group situations.
• Obtain information about problems through library research and personal contacts.
• Critically evaluate theories and research and apply the results to solve problems.
• Analyze problems on the basis of personal experience and psychological principles.
• Understand and modify your attitudes and actions in interactions with other people.
• Construct and administer questionnaires.
• Use a variety of types of research equipment.
• Collect, organize, analyze. and interpret data.
• Present verbal presentations clearly and persuasively.
• Defend ideas in a clear, objective, non-dogmatic manner.
• Be familiar with a variety of research methods and designs.
• Recruit research subjects and treat them in an ethical manner.
• Select, administer, score, and interpret various psychological tests.
• Write reports clearly, concisely, objectively, and in the correct style.
• Use library resources to research problems and prepare literature reviews.
• Identify problems and suggest solutions on the basis of research findings.
• Create easily understood graphs, tables, and verbal descriptions of results.
• Select and compute appropriate statistical tests and interpret their results.
• Assemble, interpret, and critically analyze research findings in specific areas.
• Use computers to write reports, analyze data, and perform bibliographic searches.

• Deal effectively with financial, temporal, and personnel constraints on research.

Personal Attributes Associated with Psychology:

• Ability to work with others in a team
• Motivation to work hard
• Positive attitude toward work and the organization
• Organization
• Leadership
• Maturity
• Flexibility
• Ability to communicate well
• Intelligence
• Problem-solving ability
• Integrity

• Tolerance for stress and ambiguity

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