Working with Career Consultants

UCC Career Consultants work in partnership with academic staff across the university to enhance student employability, career development and graduate outcomes. By collaborating with programme teams, we help embed career learning within the student experience while providing tailored support for students at every stage of their journey.

Employagility Information for Academic Schools

How we collaborate with you in developing graduate employability:  

• We can work together on developing employability skills of UCC students/graduates
• We co-ordinate embedded Work Placement Schemes
• Find out how you can get involved in providing unpaid work placements to UCC students through Employagility Information for UCC Staff
• We can provide talks and workshops on what UCC students can do with their degree

UCC Career Services works very closely with our academic colleagues to introduce personal and career development modules - mainly through a series of workshops; identifying the employability skills that graduate recruiters are seeking in UCC students; researching internships for students in the four colleges, coordinating the UCC Works Award and identifying trends in graduate recruitment and gathering data on graduate employment of recent UCC graduates.

We encourage an integrated approach towards career planning and the curriculum.  In that regard a strong relationship has been developed between the Careers Services and Colleges towards developing a policy and operational model for careers education.  In addition greater links have been developed with employers.

The Careers Service actively promotes the benefits of student jobs and work experience, so if your students would like to find out more we are happy to help. Encourage your students to log on to the Careers website and the Careers Connect jobs portal which is updated daily.

Students need to be aware how the skills and attributes they are developing at UCC and elsewhere can be applied to the career opportunities available, and how and when to make effective applications in a competitive jobs market.

To help with this, Careers Advisors are available to provide advice on jobs and job hunting, information on employment and study opportunities, and we also run career talks and other events throughout the year - these are advertised on the Careers Connect events calendar and on Instagram

How can UCC staff get involved in Employagility?

INTERNSHIP PATHWAY: If your department would like to offer micro-internships (min. 20 hours ), please contact careers@ucc.ie. 

RESEARCH PATHWAY: If you have a short unaccredited research project (min 20 hours student commitment) that a student could work on,  please contact careers@ucc.ie. 

Example: In 2021 we piloted this pathway and a student completed a research project on the following topic: The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on graduate recruitment activity. The student completed 25+ hours of research and as he was a Computer Science student, he submitted the results on a webpage he built from scratch. As a result, he was able to utilise his broader skillset.