Career  Prospects

Considering the demand that exists for qualified mental health professionals, the potential employment prospects after completion of the course are enormous. The course will equip the students to pursue their career in the following fields:

Shaistha Basheer (1999-2001 batch) used her MSc to take her into an exciting and well-paid corporate world: 

“After my MSc I easily got a great job in a BPO call centre company. There the staff do shift work, the disruption to their lives can cause health and relationship problems. As a Behavioural Trainer I was able to use NLP, team-building and group dynamics techniques and counseling to support them. I was even filmed by the BBC for a documentary they made about call centres. When I lived in Dubai I worked in a software company as a specialist in their training team".

“I have also helped set up an Alcohol De-addiction center with a tribal population, helping people gain sobriety".

“I’ve been successful in different types of work because the MSc course I did with RF PG College  gives students great life skills, we learn to be articulate and adaptable to whatever is needed whether the setting is a school, hospital or corporate. I learned to customize my thinking and I have a lot of confidence – which is just what you need in the corporate world".

”Chandrika Rao, who was amongst the course’s first batch of graduates in 2001 believes the practical component made it stand out: “Most disabilities are looked at in a very compartmentalized way – no one ever looks at the psychological dimension. This is what really gave me an edge over my colleagues".

"Rao’s CV demonstrates how far the training can expand horizons. A month after graduating, she began working for NIMHANS as a Research Officer for a World Health Organization project. She went on to become a rehabilitation specialist in the field of HIV prevention, first with an NGO in Karnataka, then with the Bill Gates Foundation, after which she moved to work in the US".

“Rehabilitation is like an umbrella,” she says. “Every single disability, every single disease can come under it.  But because the course is so versatile, it gives you a solid foundation. The practical work is where you get your strengths. I don’t think I’ve seen an approach like this - it’s one I’ve seen in the UK - but I’ve not come across a course which offers these kinds of core skills. Believe me; it carries a lot of weight".

”Some of the College’s alumni have careers in counseling either in the public or private sector. Three have joined PPC Worldwide – the leading global provider of Employee Assistance Programmes ( EAP )  The employer that recruited them said: “Richmond Fellowship students are much better than other Masters people, their training gives them the edge over other professionals. We offer telephone and face-to-face counseling to the employees of international IT firms like Accenture. Our people have to be good. The Richmond Fellowship students are very quick to pick up on clinical disorders and they have great empathy.  They are open to learning and are definitely very bright.”