The two pie charts illustrate the anticipated and actual employment sectors of psychology graduates after completing their studies.
Overall, private clinics were expected to employ the largest proportion of graduates and remained the biggest employer in reality, although the figure was significantly lower than predicted. In contrast, community agencies and schools and universities accounted for much larger shares in the actual data.
According to the anticipated figures, 68% of psychology graduates were expected to work in private clinics. Hospitals and medical centres accounted for 13%, while both schools and universities and community agencies were predicted to employ 8% each. Only 2% of graduates were expected to enter other sectors.
However, the actual employment distribution differed considerably from these predictions. The percentage of graduates working in private clinics fell sharply from 68% to 46%. Meanwhile, the proportion employed in community agencies rose substantially to 26%, making it the second largest sector. Similarly, the figure for schools and universities doubled from 8% to 16%. By contrast, hospitals and medical centres employed only 3% of graduates, compared with the anticipated 13%. Finally, the percentage working in other sectors increased moderately from 2% to 8%.
