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About Us
About us and our People
UCC Career Services exists to support the career development of UCC students through the provision of advisory, work placement and graduate recruitment services.
Our Mission: We help UCC students to achieve their career objectives by providing access to one to one careers advice and coaching, employability skills development classes, workshops and events, work experience placement opportunities and employment or postgraduate opportunities in Ireland and abroad.
Our Activities
We achieve our mission by:
- Providing one to one and group career advice and coaching to students.
- Working in partnership with academic departments and other University initiatives/units to deliver customised employability and career related workshops and events to meet the needs of the cohort of students of that department/initiative
- Administering work placement modules on behalf of academic programmes
- Providing Graduate Employers with opportunities to meet and communicate with UCC students and graduates so that our students and graduates can avail of employment opportunities both in Ireland and internationally.
- Making UCC students aware of a wide range of postgraduate study opportunities.
Meet the TeamĀ
Team member | Position | Contact |
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Eleanor Donoghue | Head of Services | |
Jacqueline Quirke | Operations and Project Manager | 021 490 4821 |
Employability & Enterprise Engagement |
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David Jones | Graduate Recruitment Coordinator UCC EmployAgility Award Lead |
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Career Consultants |
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Deirdre Parker | Senior Career Consultant | 021 490 4829 |
Elaine Browne | Career Consultant |
021 490 4830 |
Mary Coghlan | Career Consultant | 021 490 4828 |
Brenda Nestor | Career Consultant | 021 490 4858 |
Ruth Mac Conaill | Career Consultant | 021 490 4859 |
Mary McCarthy | Career Consultant | 021 490 4857 |
Work Placement Team |
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Amy McMullan |
Work Placement Manager, College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences |
021 490 4832 |
Susan Lyons |
Work Placement Manager, College of Business and Law |
021 490 4822 |
Jillian O'Mahony | Work Placement Manager, College of Business and Law |
021 490 4818 |
Grainne North | Work Placement Manager, College of Business and Law |
021 490 4831 |
Aileen Waterman | Work Placement Manager, College of Business and Law |
021 490 4817 |
Clodagh Kerr | Work Placement Manager, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science |
021 490 4824 |
Yvonne Harding | Work Placement Manager, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science |
021 490 4834 |
Sylvia Curran | Work Placement Manager, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science |
021 490 4838 |
Myrhen Creedon | Work Placement Senior Executive Assistant, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science |