DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2021
THURSDAY 7 - FRIDAY 8 JANUARY 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Affiliation
University of Liverpool Management School
Bio
Stephen A. Woods is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HRM in the Work, Organisations and Management Group at University of Liverpool Management School.
Professor Woods' main specialism is personality at work and his research in this area focuses on psychometric and personality trait assessment, and personality development and change at work.
He also conducts research on recruitment and selection in organizations, with special interests in how to ensure fair and effective assessment and people-analytics procedures.
Steve collaborates with industry to help put research into action, and to help develop solutions to real world challenges of management. He is a Chartered (Registered) Occupational Psychologist in the UK and works as a practitioner with businesses and organisations globally.
Title
How to Become an Occupational Psychologist: Starting out and Managing Your Trajectory (…when the world has changed abruptly)
Abstract
In 2019, we published a book – How to Become an Occupational Psychologist. It detailed the main challenges and requirements for training as an OP, and included more than a few personal reflections on what it means to be one. Then at the beginning of 2020, of course, the world changed, suddenly and unexpectedly. This change has had a profound effect on the nature of work. We therefore want to think about the implications for the advice we gave in the book, especially around our final chapter, which focused on starting out in the career and managing the trajectory that one takes.
In this session, we will reflect on that advice, and consider where it is still sound, and how and in what ways it may need to change now in the immediate term. We’ll also think about the future and any long-term implications that the present may have on how we start out as OP practitioners in the future.
Email
Stephen.A.Woods@liverpool.ac.uk
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Affiliation
University of Liverpool Management School
Bio
Stephen A. Woods is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HRM in the Work, Organisations and Management Group at University of Liverpool Management School.
Professor Woods' main specialism is personality at work and his research in this area focuses on psychometric and personality trait assessment, and personality development and change at work.
He also conducts research on recruitment and selection in organizations, with special interests in how to ensure fair and effective assessment and people-analytics procedures.
Steve collaborates with industry to help put research into action, and to help develop solutions to real world challenges of management. He is a Chartered (Registered) Occupational Psychologist in the UK and works as a practitioner with businesses and organisations globally.
Title
How to Become an Occupational Psychologist: Starting out and Managing Your Trajectory (…when the world has changed abruptly)
Abstract
In 2019, we published a book – How to Become an Occupational Psychologist. It detailed the main challenges and requirements for training as an OP, and included more than a few personal reflections on what it means to be one. Then at the beginning of 2020, of course, the world changed, suddenly and unexpectedly. This change has had a profound effect on the nature of work. We therefore want to think about the implications for the advice we gave in the book, especially around our final chapter, which focused on starting out in the career and managing the trajectory that one takes.
In this session, we will reflect on that advice, and consider where it is still sound, and how and in what ways it may need to change now in the immediate term. We’ll also think about the future and any long-term implications that the present may have on how we start out as OP practitioners in the future.
Stephen.A.Woods@liverpool.ac.uk
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