{"id":16777,"date":"2026-04-27T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?page_id=16777"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:45:32","slug":"careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/banner-white-red-wave-1-1600x700.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Careers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognitive science is the study of how minds work\u2014how people perceive, learn, remember, make decisions, and communicate\u2014drawing from psychology, neuroscience, computer science\/AI, linguistics, and philosophy. That mix gives you a rare advantage: you learn to understand both&nbsp;<strong>people<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>systems<\/strong>, and you get comfortable using evidence to solve messy, real-world problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an undergraduate degree in cognitive science, many grads go into careers like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>User experience (UX) and product design<\/strong>: improving apps, websites, and devices by understanding attention, memory, and human error.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Human-centered tech and AI<\/strong>: helping build better chatbots, recommendation systems, or \u201chuman-in-the-loop\u201d tools, and spotting when technology confuses or misleads people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Data and research roles<\/strong>: running surveys and experiments, analyzing results, and turning findings into practical recommendations (in industry, government, or non-profits).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marketing and consumer insights<\/strong>: studying why people choose what they choose\u2014how persuasion, habits, and social influence work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Education and learning design<\/strong>: creating training, online courses, or educational tools grounded in how learning actually happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Health and human services<\/strong>: roles that benefit from strong understanding of cognition and behavior (often paired with extra training, certificates, or graduate school).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cognitive science degree is also great preparation for graduate programs in psychology, neuroscience, computer science\/AI, human-computer interaction, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, education, or business. Even if you don\u2019t know exactly what job you want yet, cognitive science sets you up with flexible, transferable skills: critical thinking, research literacy, writing and communication, and a scientific way of understanding people\u2014skills that matter in almost any career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognitive Science majors are particularly valuable to startups, as they can do a great variety of things\u2014come up with simple experiments, understand computer programming well enough to talk to developers, and so on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alumni, we would love to highlight your academic, professional, and personal experiences both here at Carleton and since graduation. Your contribution can inspire current and future  students. Share how your studies in cognitive science have impacted your life and accomplishments.<br>Complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/stay-in-touch\/\">Stay in Touch<\/a> form so we can let you know of upcoming events and Departmental news!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1885\" height=\"1458\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers.png\" alt=\"Our alumni\" class=\"wp-image-16778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers.png 1885w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers-512x396.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers-1024x792.png 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers-320x248.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-employers-1536x1188.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1885px) 100vw, 1885px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2430\" height=\"1771\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart.png\" alt=\"Where our Graduates Work\" class=\"wp-image-16779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart.png 2430w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart-512x373.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart-1024x746.png 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart-320x233.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart-1536x1119.png 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2026\/04\/cogsci-sectors-chart-2048x1493.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2430px) 100vw, 2430px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive science is the study of how minds work\u2014how people perceive, learn, remember, make decisions, and communicate\u2014drawing from psychology, neuroscience, computer science\/AI, linguistics, and philosophy. 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