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Animator
A chance to use your creativity and technological know-how to win an Oscar. The Irish animation industry is growing fast and winning international awards for its distinctive, artistic films.

Barrister
Barristers offer advice about legal cases to clients and advocates on their behalf in court.

Computer scientist
The work of computer scientist and computer engineers do overlap in certain areas but computer science is a discrete profession and one that attracts some of the world’s brightest minds.

Fashion designer
Creates clothing and accessory designs for high-street fashion, ready-to- wear outlets and specialist markets such as haute couture.


Cloud computing

Drilling engineer
A drilling engineer is responsible for the financial and technical operations involved in drilling gas and oil.

Market researcher
Carries out surveys and collects and analyses data on behalf of organisations such as businesses, government bodies and charities.

Holiday representative
A holiday representative looks after groups of clients on package holidays at resorts to ensure that they enjoy their holiday and that everything runs as smoothly as possible for them.

Network engineer
Installs, maintains and supports computer communication networks within an organisation or between organisations.

Design engineer
Being a design engineer is all about ideas and transforming those ideas in to real products. It is a challenging but hugely rewarding career choice.

Quality assurance manager
Works with other staff within organisations to determine and establish procedures and quality standards and to monitor these against agreed targets.

Sales executive
Promotes products and services to customers and negotiates contracts with the aim of maximising sales profits.