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Career Guidance

There are many avenues to explore and supports to avail of when choosing an appropriate third level course or career path. Career Guidance is available in all secondary schools. Each school is granted an additional teaching resource to assist it with its guidance provision, ranging from approximately eight hours per week in small schools of less than 250 students to approximately two full-time posts in schools of greater than 1000 students. Guidance also forms part of the curriculum in senior cycle through the Transition Year Programme

    In addition to the support and guidance students receive in school, there is a broad range of supports available to parents and students outside of the school gates when considering career options. To assist you in sourcing these supports we have put together below some information on relevant websites, support organisations , careers fairs and some useful articles to help you along the way Career Guidance Providers
      CareerCamp.ie - This unique personal/career development programme goes well beyond the standard career guidance support - resulting in confident and well informed students. Camps run throughout the year. Visit www.careercamp.ie

        Career Matters - helping students with college application forms, subject choices, transition year planning, changing/leaving a course, postgrad study and much more.. Visit www.careermatters.ie
          Hynes Employment Consulting provide career coaching to students, school leavers, graduates and career changers. Our services include psychometric tests/assessments to help you identify potential career areas, interview coaching including college entrance interviews and CV preparation/design.  Visit www.hynesconsult.ie

          Careers Fairs & Open Days
            Open Days - Over the next nine months there are a wide range of Open Days and Information Evenings being held in third level colleges and institutions throughout the country. You can view a list of forthcoming using the following link to Qualifax.
              Useful Career Websites
                CareersPortal.ie
                National career guidance resource which incls a Career Exploration toolbox, an Occupational Database, a CAO database and wizard along with facilities to search by employment sector, occupations and courses. Find out more about CareersPortal.ie

                		Qualifax.ie
                The national learners database providing comprehensive information on further and higher education and training courses. Includes links to college and other education / training websites along with detailed information on an extensive selection of careers and a Calendar of Career Events.
                CareerDirections.ie
                Read about specific careers, look at photos of people at work or print out the information to keep. Alernatively you can explore the database based on the type of work you are interested in – e.g. social, scientific & technical etc. etc
                CAO
                The site for the Central Applications Office which processes applications for the majority of first year undergraduate courses in higher education institutes in Ireland
                Science.ieScience.ie
                Find out more about options for a career in science
                FAS.ie
                Apprenticeship is the recognised means by which people are trained to become craftspeople in Ireland. Find out more about Apprenticeship training on the FAS website