Over 80 of Ireland’s top graduate recruiters will participate in Ireland’s largest online graduate recruitment fair – the gradireland Careers Fair 2021 - this Friday (1st October) where over 4,500 jobs will be on offer to graduates across all sectors.
Ireland’s leading graduate employers, including AIB, Enterprise Ireland, Intel, Lidl, Workday, Amazon, and Davy, will be attending to meet with graduates virtually to outline the opportunities they are offering this year’s graduates for further skills and career development.
Over 5,000 university graduates have pre-registered already to attend this year’s event, which will be the second consecutive year that the gradireland Graduate Careers Fair 2021 will be held as an exclusively on-line event due to continuing restrictions on large-scale public gatherings as result of COVID-19. Registration for the gradireland Graduate Careers Fair 2021 remain open at: https://gradireland.com/events/gradireland-graduate-careers-fair
Ireland’s leading employers will outline the mix of skills and educational achievements they are looking for to fill available graduate recruitment places. Participants at the on-line event will have opportunities to:
Interact with top employers and postgraduate course providers in one-to-one meetings,
Discover internship opportunities, graduate programmes and jobs,
Learn how to boost their CV and get ‘career-ready’ in CV clinics,
Learn how to develop their skills and see what employers are looking for in a packed programme of live seminars, and
Build their networks among employers and graduate programme providers by speaking directly with them in online one-on-ones and group sessions.
gradireland’s hosting of last year’s fair Graduate Careers Fair 2020 as an exclusively on-line event was considered a huge success among both graduate participants and recruiters who attended live seminars and held over 12,500 job-related conversations which resulted in 3,638 job applications over the course of the fair.
Commenting ahead of this year’s gradireland Graduate Careers Fair, Gavan O’Brien, Managing Director of gradireland said that despite COVID, opportunities for graduates in 2021 and 2022 remain extremely positive. He said:
“Key sectors of the economy have remained insulated from the effects of lockdown and working from home. Sectors such as IT, Engineering, Banking and Finance, Accountancy, HR and Research & Development remain strong with recruiters seeing sustained growth in the number of graduate jobs they can offer.
Also, graduates and employers – just like the rest of society - have been quick to adapt to online events and the virtual way of doing business. The gradireland Graduate Careers Fair has introduced new ways for graduates and recruiters to interact. Some of the benefits of the move online have included greater flexibility and improved efficiency in the recruitment and skills advice process.”
Graduates need to pre-register for the gradireland Graduate Careers Fair 2021 and plan their participation and engagement with employers on Friday 1st October. The event will run from 11 am to 5 pm and includes a packed programme of online events including graduate jobs, internships, graduate training programmes, CV Clinics, a stellar seminar schedule and the chance to explore further study options.
To find out more about this year’s gradireland Graduate Careers Fair and for students to pre-register, go to https://gradireland.com/events/gradireland-graduate-careers-fair
