Transition to Employment – Useful Links

Information for Students

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TCD Career’s Service Resources

• >Plan your Career: These resources from the TCD Careers’ Service aim to help you to better understand your interests, values and skills.
• Careers Advisor: You can contact your Careers’ Advisor to make an appointment to discuss your future.
• Vac work: For holiday work opportunities and internships.

Job Hunting Resources:

Disability Specific

• Willing Able Mentoring works in partnership with public and private sector employers to secure paid internships for graduates with disabilities.
• Employability: offers a job matching service that matches business recruitment needs to graduates with disabilities, and supports the employee through the transition process.

General Job Hunting sites:

• Icould- Inspiration for your career : This site provide first-hand accounts of what it's like to work in a wide variety of jobs and sectors, and share their real-life routes to their current roles.
• Gradireland.com: Irish graduate website on which you can search for graduate jobs.
• Prospects.ac.uk: UK graduate website on which you can search for both further postgraduate courses and graduate jobs.
• Target Jobs : UK website with graduate career advice and jobs.

Post-graduate courses:

• Postgradireland: Online/Searchable Postgraduate Directory of taught courses in Ireland and links to Irish, UK & international study sites.
• Qualifax: Online/Searchable Directory of courses in Ireland

Advice for Research Students:

• Jobs.ac.uk - Jobs in science, research, academic and administrative employment in Ireland, the UK and elsewhere.
• Post-Graduate Researcher – support and guidance for post-graduate researchers through their degree and onto employment.

Information for employers

Information, resources and support for employers:

• Disability Awareness Support Scheme: This Fás scheme ensures that managers and other employees maximize their working relationships with colleagues with disabilities.
• Fás Reasonable Accommodation Fund: This fund is for companies with disabled employees who are seeking to provide additional supports to assist them with their work or make the workplace more accessible.
• Kanchi: Offers knowledge, tools, consulting and training from business and disability experts for its members.
• Get AHEAD: is a forum for Graduates with Disabilities.  It also provides information on a range of topics including legal entitlements, inclusive employment and training.

Recruitment schemes for graduates with disabilities:

• Willing Able Mentoring works in partnership with public and private sector employers to secure paid internships for graduates with disabilities.
• Employability: offers a free job matching service that matches business recruitment needs to graduates with disabilities, and supports both employer and employee through the transition process.