PsychologyPersonalStatement.com
by Dr. Robert F. Edinger
* Helping Applicants Since 2005 
drrobertedinger@gmail.com

Sample 1st two paragraphs for the I/O Psychology Personal Statement

 

____ College is my first choice for graduate school for a variety of reasons including your strengths, diversity, and the creativity of your program leading to the Master’s Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Human nature and organization, especially communication technology, have always been my areas of most intense curiosity and exploration. Something of a cross between a tech geek and a social worker, I am a young woman who feels a very special calling to contribute throughout the course of a long professional lifetime to advancing the causes of the disabled in the work place - inclusion, access, enrichment - drawing upon 3 years of current experience working with the disabled. My ideal job would be to serve as an evaluation and assessment analyst/manager, contributing to strategy formation and the design, development, and execution of evaluations and assessment plans for specific populations and/or projects.

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I see the greatest contribution that I could make to society, if accepted into the MA I/O Psychology program, would be to continue to help individuals with developmental disabilities in the workforce. There is a stigma against these individuals and employers may not think they are the right fit for a job after an employment interview. However, just because they don’t follow the “norm” or answer the questions in ways familiar to the employers, does not mean they are a bad fit for the job. Many disabled people have less well developed interview skills, but that does not mean that they could not fulfill the duties that are required in some positions. 

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Sample 1st paragraphs for the I/O Psychology Personal Statement of Purpose

 

Earning my BA in Psychology in 2005, I now have almost a decade and a half putting that experience to work. Thus, I feel strongly that I am at my optimal point for excelling in graduate school utilizing the professional tool kit that I have developed as a problem solver and communicator, training new employees in the social services, designing improvement programs for employees, along with general management experience. My current position as the Program Manager, since September of 2013, for ____ County Family Haven, in particular, has provided me with a vast range of knowledge and skills which I feel strongly will enable me to excel in the future as an I/O Psychology professional, working in either the public or private sectors on behalf of the organization(s) that I will serve.

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I am attracted to your renowned program at ____ University for a variety of reasons. Foremost among them is the fact that you chose to include the concept of "gemeinshaftgefuhl" in the mission statement on your website, suggesting how ____ sees the quality of our health as residing in our community life and social interconnectedness. As a young woman raised in Indonesia, my personal understanding of international diversity is enhanced by the fact that I am also Indian and partly educated in India. While Indonesian (reading and writing) was my first language, English has now become the language that I use constantly in my day to day activity, But, I also speak Hindi with complete fluency and I hope to use this language as well at some point in my career. I am also well traveled, which I think can be quite useful for pursuing a career in organizational psychology; in my case, having traveled extensively in Australia, China, Egypt, and the USA, as well as Indonesia, India, and my new home, Canada.