Every recent graduate is looking to gain an edge in the job market. There are many elements which can help you stand out such as learning a second language or doing an internship. These will stand out on a CV, but they can also be major undertakings. There are other ways to make yourself stand out from the crowd and be an attractive proposition for employers. Having key transferable skills … Continue reading Top transferable skills you need to have
Niall Ralph, Audit Associate with RSM, talks about his experiences on the firm’s graduate programme to date. Work, play and travel I work in RSM’s audit department, which provides services to clients across a wide range of sectors including hospitality, manufacturing, financial services, aircraft leasing and not-for-profit. As an audit associate there is great variety in my day-to-day activities. An average day can include attending … Continue reading Guest blog: My career in audit
The Graduate Careers Fair is a great way to meet recruiters, find out more about employers and industries, and hunt for jobs. Having top employers under one roof is an invaluable opportunity; where you can have face to face conversations and get in depth information on careers and application processes. However, careers fairs can be overwhelming! We’ve put together our tips on how to get organised to … Continue reading How to make the most of the Graduate Careers Fair
The hardest part of any task is the beginning and when it comes to deciding on a career it’s a minefield. We’re here to help you get over the anxiety of beginning the graduate job hunt by laying out exactly where to start. Knowing you need to make a big decision can have a paralysing effect for some. If you’ve left it late, are beginning … Continue reading The graduate job hunt: Where to start and how to find the career for you
Maybe you got an email from us or got told by a friend to get a ticket… either way you’ve registered for gradireland Live, but perhaps aren’t sure what it is and what you’ve signed up for. Rest easy, we’re here to explain what’s happening on the day and how to make the most of it! The day itself is all about taking time for … Continue reading Why should you attend gradireland Live?
In the fifth episode of the gradireland podcast, we spoke to Evanna McGrath, Lidl’s Graduate Programme Manager, about what graduates can gain from the Lidl graduate programme. Speaking to us at the gradireland Summer Fair this year, she discussed what graduates will learn during the 18-month programme. According to Evanna, the programme is “quite fast paced and you get to see all the different areas … Continue reading The gradireland podcast – the Lidl graduate programme
In the second episode of the gradireland podcast, we spoke to Angela Collins, Head of careers in Waterford IT, and Emma Burns from Camp America about how to have a CV building summer. Angela spoke about the transferable skills that students and graduates can develop by working in a summer job, volunteering or going abroad. Angela advises students not to worry about whether their summer … Continue reading The gradireland podcast- how to have a CV building summer
Hear from those in the know as well as industry experts on how to make your internship memorable for you and your employer. Congratulations, you’ve got the internship you wanted. Now comes the hard part. It’s one thing to be professional and to do what is expected of you by your managers and supervisors. But it’s another to go beyond that. The ones who go … Continue reading How to make the most of your internship opportunity.
So what is a graduate programme or graduate job? Isn’t it the case that any job done by a graduate is a ‘graduate job’? Well there’s a little bit more to it than that, within the graduate recruitment industry, a graduate job is a very specific thing. Firstly, as you’d expect, it’s a job offered by graduate recruiters – companies large enough to need a … Continue reading What is a graduate programme and why should you do one?
