GradIreland Summer Fair

The gradireland summer fair 2011 will take place on:

15 June 2010

11.00 am - 5.00 pm

Serpentine Hall (Hall 3) RDS  Dublin 4

Come and speak to graduate employers, course providers and professional bodies about what your next step will be. Bring your CV to the CV clinic to be viewed by careers advisers and attend seminars.

Jobs

Upskilling

Further study

Working abroad

Pre-register for free admission! Or you can register on the door for €5.

For more information about the gradireland Summer Fair, exhibitor list, seminar timetable and to register to attend the event, please click http://www.gradireland.com/

Undergraduate Awards & Genepool

The Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland aims to be the champion of today’s undergraduates, providing them with a platform from which to launch their ideas and showcase their work as well as provide them with opportunities to further themselves in their chosen career paths, be that through our Where Next networking events or through our alignment with GenePool graduate recruitment. All those who submit their essays to the Undergraduate Awards are instantly added to GenePool’s database where they will have access to graduate positions, work placements & internships. They will be given prominence over other applicants to GenePool’s database and should they go on to win an award, they will be given top priority for any positions that should arise.

Below please find the criteria for the essays that final & penultimate year students can submit for consideration for an Undergraduate Award.

Eligible submissions are drawn from corrected coursework which:

• Achieved a grade of 2.1 or above and/or a percentage of 65% or above

• Represents the highest standards of intellectual and scholarly achievement

• Embodies a piece of independent and original work

• Takes the form of a text-based essay/project, with images/graphics where relevant, and take the form of a critical/analytical discourse

• Whole and complete essays/projects. (NB: extracts/summaries must be approved by your lecturer.)

• Essays/projects no longer than 5000 words, and no shorter than 1750 words

• Individual essays/projects only. Group submissions are not allowed at this stage

For further information, please have a look at the website: http://www.undergraduateawards.com/

It may be raining outside, but the future is bright!

Good News!
According to the recent GradIreland/AHECS
Jobs update there is an increase of the number of job vacancies advertised on the gradireland website.

Total average number of jobs per day on the site for April 2011 was 178. This is an increase on the March average (168), and a year-on-year increase of 20% (April 2010 average was 148 live jobs).


Top 10 sectors for jobs on gradireland (in order)

1. IT and telecoms
2. Engineering
3. Accountancy and financial management
4. Marketing, advertising and PR
5. Management, business, administration
6. Banking, insurance and financial services
7. Retail, sales and customer services
8. Management consulting
9. Science, research and development
10. Manufacturing and processing

Trend analysis: The IT & Telecoms sector continues to show strong and sustained demand. 40% of the jobs were in the top 3 sectors. 15.7% of the jobs on the site are classed as graduate work placements or internships, which is has been pretty constant all year.

Most of these jobs are located in Ireland (north and south), although 20% are either UK-based or further afield, an increase of 7% since the turn of the year. The financial services and accounting sectors are the areas with the highest number of international opportunities.