STEM Careers and Employability
Are you a prospective or current STEM student? Learn more about the exciting careers available to STEM graduates of UCC and how to work towards a rewarding career while you study. Are you a STEM graduate who would like to participate in employability initiatives for current students? Or are you a UCC staff member who supports students? Discover the multiple ways that you can support the employability of current STEM students in UCC.
Career Guides On Our CAO Entry Programmes
The employability skills of our students are embedded in the activities that they do as scientists during their degree.
Dr. John Morrissey
CK402
Biological and Chemical Sciences
We take our students on field trips all over Europe. These trips offer students a great outlook to meet prospective employers.
Dr. Barbara Doyle Prestwich
CK404
Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
We focus on a research environment in genetics, but also in entrepreneurship where students learn the concepts around building a company, product development and marketing.
Dr. Tom Moore
CK405
Genetics
Coming out of UCC with a chemistry degree, you are highly respected and wanted by many disciplines. You're seen by employers as numerate, a problem solver and having good practical skills.
Dr. Dave Otway
CK406
Chemical Sciences
With a mathematics degree, you have the skills to quickly adapt to any environment you are thrown into, and this is what employers appreciate based on feedback we receive.
Dr. Andreas Amann
CK407
Mathematics
There is an unlimited range of employers who value the skills such as data analysis, critical thinking and problem solving that you get with a physics degree.
Dr. Brian Kelleher
CK408
Physics and Astrophysics
When our graduates go to industry, they work really hard, show a good work ethic and work well as a team. Employers regard our graduates as having the ability to be creative and very imaginative.
Dr. Jorge Oliveira
CK600
Engineering
There are a whole range of skills, training and workshops that prepare our graduates for their employment year after their degree. Our graduates can work anywhere in the world.
Prof. John McLaughlin
CK606
Architecture