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On gradireland you'll find graduate careers advice on a huge range of topics – and we're adding more all the time. Compare career options with information on what to expect from working life in different sectors, then learn how you can develop your skills, gain work experience and succeed in applications and interviews. If you're not sure what you'd like to do, don't panic: we're here to help you take those first steps into making career decisions. We also have articles on how to make the most of uni life, organise your job hunt, juggle job offers and more. Whether you're in your first year of university or have already graduated, our career advice for students and graduates will set you on the right path.

#GradStories Neasa Tang, Software Engineer, Product Development, Guidewire

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What are the main tasks in a typical week? development is a key part of my job I work in both front end and back end development, primarily in Java and react. We have stand-ups every morning where eve
  • Technology
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#GradStories, Rebecca Byrne, Tax Associate, PwC

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What are the main tasks you do in your job in a normal week? A normal day for me would involve carrying out tax compliance work with my team and communicating with clients regarding tax consulting iss
  • Tax +1
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#GradStories Andrew McAteer, Assurance Associate, PwC

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What are the main tasks you do in your job in a normal day? As an assurance associate we do auditing. We take the financial statements of the companies we work with and try to make sure that the numbe
  • Assurance +1
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#GradStories Kate Morgan, Consulting Analyst, Deloitte

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What are your main tasks in a normal week? In a normal week on our project, we would add features and functionality to a website and we would improve the core architecture. I would do the user story.
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#GradStories, Rachael O'Connor, Area Manager, Aldi

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What are your main tasks in a normal week? A huge portion of the role involves HR. The role varies between recruitment which involves the whole interviewing process for store staff, personnel updates,
  • Retail, business & commercial services +2
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#GradStories, Holly Loughman, R&D Engineer, Kingspan

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What does a typical day look like in your job? Kingspan is a global building materials company with offices all over Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand. My job changes day to day. I usually wor
  • Engineering
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#GradStories Danielle McCullagh, Corporate Tax Associate, Deloitte

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What are your main tasks in a normal week? There are two sides to it so on the compliance side we would prepare client's corporation tax returns, we'd look after their filing deadlines and payment dea
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#GradStories Sorcha Hanway, Business and Technology Analyst, Accenture

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What are the main tasks you do in your job in a normal week? I am currently working with a company in county Cork that is implementing a new SAP system. My role involves helping the functional lead im
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#GradStories Ruth Brady, Financial Management Accountant, Bank of Ireland

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What are the different pathways into your profession for a graduate? There's the traditional route where you can get a training contract with a firm or a company. This takes three to three and a half
  • Accounting & finance +1
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#GradStories Aoibheann Maddy, Recruitment & Employer Brand Project Manager, Lidl

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What are your main tasks in a typical week? As a recruitment and employer brand project manager, my role is split 80/20. 80 per cent of the time I'm working on projects. These projects could be in rel
  • HR & recruitment
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#GradStories Kerri Murphy, International Graduate, Bord Bia

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What are the main tasks you do in your job in a normal week? The role of Board Bia is to help the Irish food and drinks industry grow at home and abroad. My job's based in London and our role is to he
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Career paths in project management

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Project management is one of the most promising professional fields for today’s graduate. At the moment, the demand for project managers is increasing at a much faster pace than the demand for professionals in many other fields. At the same time, according to the Institute of Project Management Ireland, the number of project managers is not growing as fast as the demand for them is.
  • Management consulting +1
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