UCD Career Development Centre www.ucd.ie/careers

2016/2017UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

ENGAGE RECRUIT

University College Dublin is a research intensive institution with a reputation for world class research and education. The UCD Career Development Centre works with national and international employers to help them source future interns and graduate employees. Our Employer Engagement Strategy is to develop a collaborative and partnership-based approach between the UCD Careers Development Centre, employers and students.

Why University College Dublin?

WHY DO EMPLOYERS WORK WITH The Career Development Centre?UCD Career Development Centre has established a reputation amongst employers for professionalism, innovation and drive for success in connecting students to top quality internships and graduate positions, nationally and internationally.

UCD is one of the world’s elite universities – among the top 1% in world university rankings (Times Higher Education and QS Rankings) and is in the top 200 universities worldwide in 22 of 30 subject areas.

4204Student attendance at Recruitment Fairs

2,000+ Job vacancies loaded to Careers Connect (Aug 2015 - May 2016)

10%Increase in employer attendance at UCD Recruitment Fairs

3,000+Employers registered on UCD Connect

1,500+Student attendance at employer presentations on campus

120+Employer led presentations and workshops on campus

“Each year at Glanbia we hire up to 100 graduates and undergraduates and we are always hugely impressed with the quality of UCD students.

Our Glanbia Pure Ambition Graduate and Internship Programmes are key enablers for our business and have a primary objective of building a sustainable leadership pipeline for the future. We seek people who are focused on championing the customer, who love to solve problems, who have a curious mindset and strive to find a better way.

We find UCD has an abundance of fantastic students who demonstrate these key qualities and many UCD graduates have gone on to carve out highly successful global leadership careers here”.

Rose Mary HoganGlanbia Global

“Citi hires UCD Graduates into both our internships and full-time roles. Based on our experience, we have found the graduates to be work ready, as the courses are practical and industry relevant.”

Colin MorelandTTS Head Ireland & Treasurer, Citibank Europe

“We return time and again to UCD because of the calibre and personalities of the applications.”

Dermot Killen, Graduate Recruitment, Kingspan.

“Experience has shown UCD graduates from all disciplines to possess the attributes and skills needed to thrive in our business and deliver high quality and innovative solutions for which Accenture is renowned.”

Hilary O’MearaHead of Accenture’s

Technology Growth Platform in Ireland

98% of students surveyed who

attended our fairs found the fairs useful in terms of seeking

job opportunities.

Science, Engineering & Technology FairWednesday 28th September 2016 O’Reilly Hall, Belfield Campus 11:00am to 3:00pmThis event is open to all employers looking to promote graduate and internship opportunities in the science, engineering and technology sectors for 2017.

Who will be attending? Who can you target?Students attending will be University finalists, penultimate year students and recent graduates of all degree disciplines, but primarily from Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Software, Chemical, Civil and Computing Engineering, as well as Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biological Sciences.

Law FairWednesday 5th October 2016 Astra Hall, Belfield Campus 1:00pm to 4:00pmThe fair is open to Law firms of all sizes. Small and medium sized firms are welcome. This event is an excellent way to raise your firm’s profile on campus and promote your vacation schemes and training contracts for 2017 and beyond.

Who will be attending? Who can you target? The Fair is targeted at UCD penultimate year Law students and final year students of all non-Law disciplines.

Targeted recruitment fairs provide the

ideal forum to meet a large number of students in a few hours to promote your graduate vacancies and internships.

Recruitment FairsWe publicise all our fairs through:

An events calendar on our website

Fair guides

Emails and posters

Direct mailing to students

Online tutorials

Student portal announcements

Careers Focus Blog

University student e-newsletter

Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin

Business, Finance & Management Fair

Tuesday 27th September 2016 O’Reilly Hall, Belfield Campus 11:00am to 3:00pmThis event is open to all employers looking to promote graduate and work experience opportunities in the Business, Finance and Consultancy sectors for 2017. Small and medium sized employers are welcome.

Who will be attending? Who can you target?Students attending will be University College Dublin finalists, penultimate year students and recent graduates from all degree disciplines. Feedback from both students and employers from past events has been overwhelmingly positive.

� Business and Law

� Arts/Humanities/Social/Education

� Medicine/Vets/Health/Agriculture

� Science/Engineering/Architecture

� Other

28% (7682)

19% (5412)

19% (5331)

27% (7624)

7% (1820)

Breakdown by Programme Area

Internship FairWednesday 1st February 2017 Astra Hall, Belfield Campus 1:00pm to 4:00pmThis event is open to all employers looking to promote work experience opportunities for 2017 and to raise your profile ahead of the 2017–18 recruiting year. Small and medium sized employers are welcome.

Who will be attending? Who can you target? Students attending will be UCD penultimate year students looking for challenging work experience, summer internships and year placements. Over 1000 students from all degree disciplines visited the fair in spring 2016.

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Fairs UCD Smurfit School Professional Service Recruitment Fair (Audit, Tax & Consulting) Tuesday, 4th Oct 2016 Main Lobby, Blackrock Campus 1:30pm to 4:30pm

UCD Smurfit School General Business Recruitment Fair (Finance, Marketing, Management, Supply Chain, Digital Innovation, International Business, HRM & Business Analytics) Friday, 7th Oct 2016 Restaurant, Blackrock Campus 11:00am to 3:00pmAll UCD Smurfit School students are invited to attend our recruitment fairs. Our diverse range of MSc courses provides employers with the opportunity to engage with and recruit from specialised business areas including Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, Human Resources Management, Food Business and Business Analytics.

For a full listing of our MSc courses visit smurfitschool.ie

BOOK YOUR PLACE

at our 2016/17 Recruitment Fairs herewww.ucd.ie/careers/employers/recruitmentfairs

UCD offers the best internationally accredited curriculum in Ireland

1,200Students annually into Taught Masters including MBA

over 50 nationalities every year (50% Irish, 50% non-Irish)

23%of students have between 3-8 years experience

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

“We experienced a steady stream of high calibre students throughout the Law Recruitment Fair. Attending the Fair has been a positive experience for us and thank you for organising such a successful event. We look forward to growing our relationship with UCD”.

Norton Rose Fulbright

For more information, please contact

careers@ucd.ie or call 01 716 7574

Sponsorship OpportunitiesIn addition to advertising your vacancies directly, we also offer the opportunity to raise your profile via sponsorship. Our events are actively and regularly promoted to all of our penultimate and final year students, providing an excellent means of communicating your message and of being associated with a range of highly successful events.

Vacancy Advertising UCD Career Development Centre offers a free vacancy advertising service to employers through our Careers Connect vacancy portal.

Careers Connect is a great way to reach UCD students and graduates with your vacancies, and also to promote your organisation within the university by adding full details to your employer profile. www.careersconnect.ucd.ie

We can support you with information on how to advertise for graduate, paid internships, part-time/vacation work opportunities.

On Campus Interaction FacilitiesPresentations allow for a more in depth dialogue with students. Discuss in more detail what you are looking for in an application; your organisation’s culture and ethos towards its stakeholders and what differentiates you from your competition. Information stands allow students to meet with representatives and ask questions about your business and opportunities on a more informal basis.

• Introduce your organisation to students through an on campus presentation

• Deliver skills workshops to our students through our ‘Skills for Working Life Programme’

• Deliver career development models embedded into the curriculum as well as bespoke career programmes outside the curriculum, i.e. case study or business game.

• Deliver workshops on a variety of topics such as aptitude testing, interviews, application forms and enterprise

• Have a recruitment information stand to promote opportunities to students at busy times.

• Access to Interview rooms and test facilities

Internships A key way of generating closer links with UCD is through getting involved in academic internships. There are numerous academic internships within the curriculum of UCD academic programmes. UCD sees academic internships as a means to enhance the academic experience for students as a part of their degree and to: • Develop employability skills and graduate attributes

in students • Make links between employer and students more

explicit • Bring University stakeholders closer to key businesses

and emerging industry sectors • Give hosts access to students early on in their studies • Provide a means for hosts to market employment

opportunities • Facilitate hosts in forming collaborative relationships

with academic and research staffA full list of programmes with internships can be found at www.ucd.ie/careers/employers/academicinternships Direct contact details for each programme are provided with organisations encouraged to liaise directly with the programme internship manager of the programme(s) of interest to them. Details of when students are available and for how long are included. For general enquiries employers can liaise directly with Dr. Teresa Lee, the University Internship Manager Teresa.lee@ucd.ie

2,000+Vacancies loaded to Careers Connect to date

Key Dates To Remember! The academic calendar will play a big part in deciding when you should book your Employer Presentation on campus to ensure maximum engagement with the student body. Our events team will advise you of the best times and dates to schedule activities on campus during the 2016/17 academic year.

Semester 1Teaching Term 1: 12 Sept - 2 Dec 2016 Revision: 3 Dec - 9 Dec 2016 Exams: 10 Dec - 22 Dec 2016Semester 2Teaching Term 2: 23 Jan - 10 Mar 2017 Fieldwork/Study Period: 13 Mar - 26 Mar 2017 Teaching Term 2b: 27 Mar - 28 Apr 2017 Revision: 29 Apr - 7 May 2017 Exams: 8 May -19 May 2017

• Contact us to discuss your needs• Post your student and graduate jobs on our vacancy

site - careersconnect.ucd.ie/home.html• Keep us informed about your recruitment plans and

events so we can help promote them.

For more information please contact careers@ucd.ie or call 01 716 7574

What Next?

Interested in hiring UCD Alumni?The UCD Alumni Network is a new online portal for UCD alumni to reconnect, stay posted about upcoming events and activities and to share career information and advice with their fellow alumni .

There is a jobs and opportunities panel which will feature upcoming vacancies to alumni (graduate career and internship opportunities should be notified to the UCD Career Development Centre). Over the coming months the Network is gradually being launched to 235,000 UCD alumni.

If you have a job opportunity that you think would be suitable for experienced UCD alumni and you would like it to be posted on the UCD Alumni Network, please contact Sinead Corcoran at globalalumni@ucd.ie

Specialist Recruitment: Research and Development The Research Careers team host a wide range of tailored networking events throughout the year, where companies can come along and meet candidates with specialist qualifications and advanced research, data-analytics and project-management skills and experience. SMEs and larger companies alike are invited in particular to come along our SFI Industry Fellowship and IRC Enterprise Partnership information sessions in Spring and Autumn to learn more about how you can avail of government funding to recruit a PhD researcher or project manager for your company.

To advertise more specialist opportunities and opportunities preferring a PhD, to liaise with research institutes for industry-academic collaborations or to meet directly with Postdocs, please contact Naoimh O’Connor, Research Careers Manager at naoimh.oconnor@ucd.ie

Developing a relationship with the CDC allows employers to:• Access students early on in their studies• Market employment opportunities• Form collaborative relationships with academic and

research staff• Improve the skills of new entrants to the industry

raising the profile of your career opportunities• Gain fresh ideas and an external perspective from a

student who can then potentially take on the project• Increase short-term resource on a project• Develop management skills for your existing staff• Meet and informally testing potential future recruits

- the idea of ‘try before you buy’• Gain enhanced standing, including fulfilling corporate

social responsibility, diversity and Government agendas

What You Can Do?Share Your Story

• Share your experience as a graduate and tell students about your journey into industry

• Take part in a panel where students can ask you questions

• Feature in our Career Focus – our online blog - ucdblogs.org/careers

• Feature in our UCD Career Guide – our annual guide for students

Recruitment Fairs are a great way for us to meet UCD students and by offering fairs that focus on specific disciplines this offers us as employers the opportunity to engage with the right candidates for the right roles”.

Sinead D’Arcy Graduate Programme manager,

Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard.

Career Development Centre James Joyce Library Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Tel: +353 1 716 7574 Fax: +353 1 716 1159 Email: careers@ucd.ie Web: www.ucd.ie/careers

www.facebook.com/ucdcareers

@UCDCareers

www.linkedin.com/in/ucdcareers

www.ucdblogs.org/careers

Stand out from the crowd. Competition amongst employers to recruit

the best talent is fierce.

How you decide to market your company and its opportunities to students will depend on the

methods you choose to promote yourself.

Raising your profile on campus is key to your success.

BOOK YOUR PLACE

at our 2016/17 Recruitment Fairs herewww.ucd.ie/careers/employers/recruitmentfairs