Please help me talk some sense into my sister!

[sanantone]

There are a few undergraduate degrees available for I/O Psychology. She took a course; did she have any interest there? It's a happy medium between her current degree and the field she wants to enter. Since she's already got a Psych undergrad, the additional courses needed should be minimal...though there would be additional courses. If an undergrad is wasteful, there are a very small number of graduate certificates available.

I don't know what we have locally. In the past, she did express an interest in an online masters program in forensic psychology, but has mostly been skeptical of distance education. I don't know what happened since then. I'm thinking all of the psychology courses she took showed her she didn't really have an interest.

If she just goes direct into HR, the pay ceiling is not that high. If she goes the I/O Psych route, she can still go the HR route but will have a bit more sale value to demand a slightly higher rate or can go the self-employed consulting route.

Don't most I/O psych jobs require at least a masters degree and the consulting jobs a PhD?