UCC Students bring strengths and values to the employer, far beyond their academic qualifications. Students gain a range of strong values and attributes during their time at UCC and this enables them to become valuable employees. UCC Career Services boasts a highly qualified Work Placement Team Each Placement Manager has in depth knowledge, experience and specialisation in specific employment sectors. We offer a personal, bespoke service to create employer-student connections that form exciting futures. Our Graduate Recruitment Team can create opportunities for you to engage with our final year cohort and recent graduates.
Our Graduate Recruitment Team can connect you with our current students and recent graduates. If you would like to promote your opportunities and meet potential candidates, please get in touch. We can facilitate Instagram Takeovers, social media campaigns media takeovers and skills sessions in addition to our annual Recruitment Festival. We are happy to promote your events or current vacancies in our weekly student newsletters. Promote your vacancies free of charge on ourCareers Portal.
Promoting your events and initiatives:
If you would like to promote an event your company is hosting or an initiative you are launching/coordinating, we are here to help. We will need:
A short event/ initiative description we can share on our platforms (240 and 260 characters)
An image to accompany the description (Square: 1080 x 1080 pixels)
A link to register for the event or initiative. If you do not have a link, please provide contact details.
The 2026 Graduate Recruitment Festival will take place between the 7th & 8th October and will take place in the Devere Hall, Student Centre. To register please use the following link to register: Register here
If you would like to discuss any of our engagement opportunities in more detail, please get in touch at graduaterecruitment@ucc.ie
We support and work with over 30 work placement programmes. Work Placement Managers, based in UCC’s Careers Service, are responsible for the management and development of programmes within the College of Business and Law, the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science.
Amy manages Works Placement for two unique I.T. degrees co-delivered by the Computer Science Department and the College of Arts. Students’ combination of hard I.T. skills and soft transferable skills make them valuable assets in a variety of teams and industries.
I manage undergraduate and postgraduate placement programmes in the areas of Accounting both practice and industry and Finance including corporate & investment services. I have long-established relationships with employers locally and nationally in this sector and am committed to ensuring that our students are work-ready to succeed on placement.
I'm Grainne North and I engage with start-ups, SME's and large multinationals to secure placements that work both for the employer and the student. Students from the courses I support secure roles in a diverse range of areas such as marketing, product development, buying, supply chain, quality control, sales, research and sustainability. I work closely with my students in developing the necessary employability skills to enable them to transition to work.
I’m Jillian O’Mahony, students from the programmes I support have had success in a diverse range of work placements in HR, Marketing, Supply Chain, Project Management, Food Marketing and Food Product Development. I engage with SMEs and large multinationals to secure placements that work for the employer and for the student. Understanding student and employer needs is an important step in the placement process. I recommend having a discussion with us to identify and connect with students best suited to your business requirements.
I'm Dr Susan Lyons, Work Placement Manager in the college of Business and Law. I am responsible for the BCommerce work placement programme in UCC. Working closely with industry partners I help to support students secure work placement in a variety of business sectors, these include Finance, Accounting, Marketing, HR, Supply Chain and Project Management to name but a few.
My name is Yvonne Harding, Work Placement Manager in the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science. I work closely with high calibre undergraduate and Masters students of Biotechnology and Analytical Chemistry helping them to develop their employability skills to allow them to move seamlessly into a work placement position.
If you feel that you have a research or industry-based work placement opportunity that you would like to discuss, contact me by email (yvonne.harding@ucc.ie)
I’m Ruth Mac Conaill, students from the business, food and economics programmes I support have had success in a diverse range of work placements in HR, Marketing, Supply Chain, Project Management, Food Marketing, Food Product Development, Accounting, Finance and Economic Advisory (and many more). I engage with SMEs and large multinationals to secure placements that work for the employer and for the student. Understanding student and employer needs is an important step in the placement process. I recommend having a discussion with us to identify and connect with students best suited to your business requirements.
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