The Careers Service offers, a free advertising service to employers, and can provide advice and guidance on how best to engage with our students and graduates.
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Maynooth University has 32 academic departments with 14,000 students across 3 faculties:
Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies & Philosophy, Faculty of Social Science Faculty of Science & Engineering
Maynooth University Careers Service offers a free advertising service to employers.
Recruitment Agencies, also Teaching Agencies and Schools, please go to your specific section below on this page.
Please Post your Graduate Programmes, Graduate Jobs, Graduate Internships on Careers Connect
You can Register and Post Jobs immediately afterwards here - When registering, the company website address must be entered using http://
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If you require further information on Graduate Programmes, Graduate Jobs, Graduate Internships, relevant p/t work please contact Lorraine Kelly employers@mu.ie (Graduate Employer Liaison, Careers Service).
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.
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
Use 'Future Ready Connect' to advertise -
- Undergraduate Summer Internships (less than 3 months)
- Summer Jobs,
- Micro Internships
- Undergraduate Insight Days
- Competitions, Challenges
Please Register and post your opportunities on Future Ready Connect
if you are already Registered on Careers Connect - just Sign into Careers Connect and use the Drop-down menu to Switch to the Experiential Learning Office Partition
For events please email your event details to maire.buckley@mu.ie as they cannot be posted by employers to Connect
For more information please email: maire.buckley@mu.ie Employer Engagement Coordinator, Experiential Learning Office
For general student full-time and part-time work
Please email the details to employers@mu.ie
Recruitment Agencies:To advertise please let us know the name of the organisation you are hiring for- the organisation name will not be disclosed to applicants -email details to Lorraine Kelly (Graduate Employer Liaison, Careers)
Teaching Organisations (UK &Abroad): Due to the extremely high number of teaching vacancies received, we have set up a section on our website with links to the organisations rather than individual vacancies. In February and May this page is advertised to teacher education students - for now email details to Lorraine Kelly (Graduate Employer Liaison, Careers)
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 Autumn Fair 2022 which will be in person is currently scheduled for 28th September 2022. Details when available will be available on gradireland events - for more information email contact@gradireland.com
The School of Business Accountancy Showcase, Monday 3rd October 2022 venue TBA
contact accountancyshowcase@mu.ie
The School of Business Careers Fair Autumn 2022 Fair - date and venue TBA
contact Niall Foster, niall.foster@mu.ie
The Law Society Law Careers Fair 8th October 2021
Autumn 2022 Fair - date and venue TBA
Contact the Law Society: using Law Society Careers Fair in the subject line law@mulife.ie
The Placement and Internship Fair 13th October 2021
Autumn 2022 Fair - date and venue TBA
Promote your organisation’s placements, internships and short term work experience opportunities.
Email enquiries with Placement & Intenship Fair in the subject line can be sent to -
The Experiential Learning Office (maire.buckley@mu.ie) or The Placement Office (placement@mu.ie)
Provide Job Search or Career Sector videos for the Careers Service Youtube channel which will also be advertise widely via the Careers Service.
Students and graduates like to hear from employers and graduates about careers and job search skills such as:-
Videoes 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) . Graduate Stories can be submitted here
Alumni Mentoring
Insight Days
Competitions
Offer Work Placements as part of students academic courses or 4+ week Summer Jobs or Internships:
Over 38 MU undergrad and postgrad courses include a built in Placement/internship period where students gain work/professional experience as a requirement of their degree
For Internships (less than 3 months) or Summer jobs contact maire.buckley@mu.ie
Employer Liaison contacts:
Careers Service