EMPLOYABILITY
The Careers and Employability Service
Maynooth University Careers and Employability Service helps you take your next step.
Our Careers and Employability Service is dedicated to empowering students to make informed decisions and develop the future-focused skills, competencies, insights and awareness needed to excel personally, professionally and transition to work or further study. Whether that means exploring future career paths, upskilling, securing a placement, or networking with potential employers, we’ll help you take that next step.
Whatever stage you’re at, our expert team is here to help. Students use Careers Connect | Placement Connect and our Careers & Employability portal to engage with us. Here students can book appointments with our team, send us questions, search for opportunities advertised to MU students/graduates, view career events and access Careers Interest tests, Sample CVs, CV and interview preparation tools and other useful resources.
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Employability and Career Development
There are many benefits of attaining a Postgraduate degree, from enhancing your employability to achieving career growth. Recent research shows that 85% of postgraduates were in employment within 9 months of graduation in comparison with 67.81% of BA graduates.
Internships / Accredited Placement
Maynooth University students actively engage and undertake internships/placements as an integral part of their academic progression at major companies. This immersive experience cultivates essential life skills through placements in organisations such as Microsoft, Pfizer, IBM, Ericsson, Intel, Oracle and Accenture. Recent graduates from Maynooth University are now working in professions and sectors such as journalism, economics, financial services, technology, education, the voluntary sector and beyond
TAUGHT MASTERS (POSTGRADUATE)
EMPLOYMENT
PhD (POSTGRADUATE)
EMPLOYMENT
Employers
Some of the companies hiring our graduates include:
Maynooth University Student Experience Awards (MUSE Awards)
These awards are open to undergraduate and postgraduate students, recognising and rewarding student engagement in extracurricular and co-curricular activities beyond their degree programme, such as volunteering, student ambassadorial roles, work experience, club and society involvement. In addition to recognising the value of such activity, these awards promote student confidence, employability and career readiness.
PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE
Maynooth University's innovative Postgraduate Teaching and Research Programmes will prepare you for the future.
MaynoothWorks Create skills for impact from your discoveries
MaynoothWorks is the University’s office for Knowledge Transfer, Enterprise Partnership and Entrepreneur Innovation and supports the translation of research innovation from a lab experiment to a product on a shelf. We bring real-world “wicked” problems facing industry and society to the University and ask, “how can this problem be solved?”.
Important Dates
Postgraduate Open Day Tuesday 5 March 2024
Maynooth University Open Days Spring Open Day - 27 April 2024 Summer Open Day - 29 June 2024
Postgraduate Induction September 2024
Accommodation Move in dates
Autumn - 15 September 2024 (TBC) Move out date
7 June 2025 (TBC)
PAC Opening Date for 2024/25 academic year 1 November 2023
