Springboard information for companies interested in placement candidates

•  Placements are unpaid and students are happy to attend for interview and shortlisting should any company wish to do this in advance of recruiting a placement candidate.
  
  
•  The students have varied backgrounds and bring with them many transferable skills and expertise in a wide variety of areas.
  
  
• The aim of the placement would be to afford them the opportunity to utilise these, as well as gain experience in their new areas of academic learning.
  
  
• Placements would last for 12 weeks typically.

If you feel your company may be interested in recruiting a UCC Springboard Candidate or you want any further details about the courses or students plase contact:

Lillian Griffin, Springboard Careers Coordinator, UCC Careers Service 086 2850454. 
Email: lgriffin@ucc.ie

Springboard at UCC
 

The objective of all our Springboard programmes is to provide training and learning opportunities for jobseekers to up-skill or re-skill in areas where skill deficits currently exist, so that jobseekers may achieve sustainable employment.

Springboard courses currently running at UCC:

• Certificate in Business, Language and Culture in East Asia
• Certificate in International Sales and Negotiations
• Certificate in Languages for the Global Marketplace
• Certificate in Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• CPD Module in Cloud Computing and Web 2.0
• Diploma in Supply Chain Management (SCM) [Year 2 only]
• Higher Diploma in Chinese Business, Language and Culture
• Higher Diploma in Leadership Development
• International Market Entry, sales and Negotiations Strategies Module
• MEngSc in Marine Renewable Energy
• MA in Digital Arts and Humanities
• Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation, Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship (with Foreign Language option)

Note: At present the Higher Diploma in Chinese Business Language and Culture and the Certificate in Languages for the Global Marketplace include an accredited work placement, however participants in the other courses would also benefit greatly from a placement in order to put their newly acquired skills and learning into practice.

For further details including student profile and placement objectives please click here.