We ask employers to advertise with us on our Careers Connect portal. Careers Connect is not just a Jobs & Events board, it is our main point of contact with students and recent graduates where they can use Careers Connect to access career resources and information, ask questions and book appointments, and is widely used by students and recent graduates.
Use Careers Connect to advertise
- Graduate Jobs,
- Graduate Programmes,
- Graduate Internships
- Entry Level jobs,
- Immediate Start Graduate jobs
- Undergraduate Summer Internships (from 4 weeks to 3 months)
- Micro Internships
- Competitions, Challenges
- Relevant part-time jobs (admin etc)
Please Post your roles on Careers Connect
You can Register here - (When registering, the company website address must be entered using http://)
Already Registered on MU Careers Connect - Sign in | Forgotten your password - click here
For general Student Jobs(full-time/part-time) please email details to employers@mu.ie
To advertise your Career and Graduate Recruitment Events email the details employers@mu.ie
If you require further information on please contact employers@mu.ie
For all Work Placements, Summer Internships, Summer Jobs, Micro Internships, Insight Days, Competitions scroll down to relevant section on this webpage for further contact details.
Recruitment Agencies, also Teaching Agencies and Schools, please go to your specific section below on this page.
Employer testimonials
"We have had some excellent candidates from MU." Graduate recruiter
"I got a great response to my last advert'" Graduate recruiter
Degrees that include an accredited Placement:
Over 48 Maynooth University undergraduate and postgraduate courses include an accredited Placement (Internship) period where students gain work/professional experience as a requirement of their degree.
Placements in the following courses are managed by the Placement Office i.e. Accounting Business, Computer Science, Chemistry, Data Analytics, Design Innovation, Economics, Electronic Engineering.. To find out more visit The Placement Office website
Placements in the following subjects - Biology, Education (Early Childhood, Primary, Post Primary), Law & Criminology, Psychology, Youth & Community Work, Social Work are managed by the individual academic departments – List of Courses with Placements managed by directly by Academic Departments
Employer Recruitment Stands (Pop Up Stands)
Our popular Employer Recruitment Stands are back and an ideal way to meet students on-campus. These stands run weekly during key term dates (link below) on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Employers can bring either their large stands or pop up banners, just this must be discussed with us when booking, and depends on the event location available. Key term dates for students can be found here.
To book email the following information to employers@mu.ie
- Dates you are interested in
- The degrees or subjects to be targeted or any discipline
- Link to the graduate programme or job/s
- The closing date
- The email contact for student enquires
Careers Service joint Careers Fairs with gradireland
Maynooth University Careers Service partners with gradireland and our Careers Service colleagues in 10 other third level Universities and Colleges in hosting a number of graduate careers fairs throughout the year - the gradireland Live Fair 8th March 2023, the gradireland Summer Fair 7th June 2023 , The Gradireland Autumn Fair 2023 is 27th September 2023 (Venue RDS Dublin), find out more on gradireland events - for more information email contact@gradireland.com
The School of Business Accountancy Showcase - FULLY BOOKED 2022
Monday 3rd October 2022, Iontas Building Foyer, Maynooth University (North Campus)
contact accountancyshowcase@mu.ie
The Law Society Law Careers Fair - October 18th 2022 10am to 2pm
Contact the Law Society at law@mulife.ie (please include MU Law Fair in subject line).
The School of Business Careers Fair Autumn 2022 Fair -
contact Niall Foster, niall.foster@mu.ie
Provide Job Search or Career Sector videos (30mins max) for the Careers Service Youtube channel which will also be added to the relevant student career online resources and advertised widely on all our advertising channels.
Students and graduates like to hear from employers and graduates about careers and job search skills such as:-
- A Career in ….
- Virtual tour...
- How to write a Linkedin Profile
- Application Forms
- CVs
- Psychometric Tests
- Virtual Assessment Centres
- In-person Assessment Centres
- Phone interviews
- Interviews: Video interviews, Online interviews, In person interviews,Technical interviews,Whiteboard interviews
The links to the videos can be emailed to employers@mu.ie
Graduate Career Stories:
Students find it extremely beneficial to hear from former graduates and this creates awareness of your organisation via the homepages of Academic Departments and the Careers Service, yet this resource is currently underused by employers. Using our ‘online Graduate Career Story form’, submit max 4/5 stories from MU Alumni currently on your staff (at different stages of their career and/or in different roles) . Please email employers@mu.ie to let us know once a Graduate Story or Stories have been submitted.
Remember you can also take part in Alumni Mentoring, Run Insight Days, Competitions or Challenges and/or offer Micro Internships Placements, Summer Internships - for more information on these options go to the relevant section on this website.
Recruitment Agencies:Recruitment Agencies can register on the Careers Connect platform. We ask recruitment agencies not to post multiple roles but rather key roles relevant to final years and recent graduates (max 0-2 years experience required). When posting roles to Careers Connect, recruitment agencies must indicate the name of the organisation for which they are hiring and choose whether or not this name is visible to applicants. For any questions please email employers@mu.ie
Teaching Organisations (UK & Abroad):
Due to the extremely high number of teaching vacancies received, rather that posting individual vacanies, we have set up a section on our website with links to the relevant organisations. In February and May this page is advertised to Teacher Education students . To be include please email details to employers@mu.ie
While Volunteering opportunities are not advertised on the Careers Connect portal, Maynooth University in partnership with a network of other Irish higher education institutions have come together to create a free online resource to advertise voluntary opportunities. Studentvolunteer.ie connects students and community groups, charities, schools, hospitals, public bodies and NGOs across Ireland. Studentvolunteer.ie have also recently begun to advertise volunteering opportunities abroad.
For general student full-time and part-time work
Please email the details to employers@mu.ie
