Employer branding and graduate recruitment online, in print and in person
Product information 2016
“
I don’t need to tell any of you about the
positive impact that gradireland has made in Ireland
over the years, providing an outstanding service to
graduates and employers alike. In doing so, they have
forged links between our industries and businesses,
our professional bodies and our academic
institutions. I often think that if we didn’t have
gradireland we’d probably have to provide a state
body to do the same job – and I suspect it probably
wouldn’t be done half as well as gradireland does it.
Minister for Business & Employment, Gerald Nash, speaking at the
gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards, 30 April 2015
The official graduate
careers products for
Ireland, north and south
Ireland’s official graduate jobs and careers information service
publications, websites,
events and other services are produced
through the official partnership between
the Association of Higher Education
Careers Services and GTI Ireland.
This partnership ensures the credibility
and accuracy of all gradireland products
and services, as well as the support and
promotion of these products and
services to students and graduates
nationwide by their careers services.
Why use gradireland?
Our position and reach
Our partnership with AHECS and all the individual
university and IT careers services across Ireland,
north and south, gives us unprecedented access
to career-minded Irish students. If you want to
promote your employer brand and your graduate
opportunities to either the broad mass of Irish
students or targeted subsets of the student body,
we can advise on and deliver a strategy that will
ensure maximum impact and return on your
investment.
“
The Association of Higher
Education Careers Services gives its
wholehearted support to the gradireland
products available to students.
As our publishing partner, GTI Ireland
works in close collaboration with all 27
higher education careers services to
develop the gradireland and
postgradireland range of publications,
online resources and events which are
invaluable tools for both careers services
and graduates seeking comprehensive
careers information.
This contribution to graduate
employability is vital to the future
success of the country.
UU Coleraine
Letterkenny IT
UU Jordanstown
UU Magee
UU Belfast,
Queen’s University,
Belfast,
Open University
IT Sligo
Dundalk IT
Dún
Laoghaire,
Institute of
Art, Design &
Technology
Galway-Mayo IT
Maynooth
University
Athlone IT
NUI Galway,
Galway-Mayo IT
Brendan Baker, Chairman of the Association of
Higher Education Careers Services and Head of
Careers Service, Maynooth University
IT Carlow
University of Limerick,
Limerick IT
IT Tralee
Waterford IT
CIT,
University
College Cork
DCU,
DIT,
UCD,
National College of
Art & Design,
National College of
Ireland,
Open University,
IT Blanchardstown,
ITT Dublin,
Trinity College
Dublin,
St Patrick’s College,
Drumcondra
Our presence
We work hard to make sure we support our
partner careers services and their students.
We strive to give both careers practitioners
and students at all levels of study the best
quality service in terms of delivering careers
information and graduate jobs – in the right
format, in the right media, at the right time. Our
publications have huge reach; our website is
the most used; our database the most
extensive; and our presence on campus the
most noticeable, both through our own career
fairs and events and in attending every
regional careers fair.
Social media
“
Hey @gradireland, I really
appreciate all the emails and advice given to
me since I began college, keep up the good
work!! :) @ PatriciaDowling
Our Twitter feed is where students, employers, careers advisers and
other stakeholders meet to hear about recruitment trends, careers
advice, labour market information, breaking news items and other
useful content. Follow us on twitter.com/gradireland.
Blog
The gradireland blog is the place for news and comment on graduate
recruitment in Ireland. gradireland.com/blog
GTI Ireland
14–16 Lord Edward Street
Dublin D02 YC63
Tel: +353 (0)1 645 1500
Email: contact@gradireland.com
Our marketing is your marketing
gradireland products are extensively
marketed and promoted on campus, through
careers services, classroom presentations,
careers fairs, social media, careers service
websites and a myriad of other channels. We
are the easiest, most reliable and cost
effective way to reach your target audience
and demographic.
LinkedIn
The gradireland Graduate Careers Network group on LinkedIn provides
a platform for students and employers to network and share information.
Flickr
GTI Ireland is part of Group GTI, the world’s
leading graduate careers publisher, with a
presence in six countries.
View and download photos from gradireland events.
flickr.com/photos/gradireland
YouTube
gradireland TV is the official gradireland YouTube
channel. View expert seminars, events footage
and much more. youtube.com/gradireland.
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Overview
Come and find us on Facebook at facebook.com/gradireland. Students
are finding out about careers fairs, campus events and presentations,
competitions, surveys, publication launches and more via our Facebook
page. Link up with us, let us know what you are doing, and we will help
you use social media to engage with students online in a credible and
useful way.
Twitter
Our credibility
Everything we publish is endorsed by the
careers services, so our publications,
websites, emails and events have great
credibility with students. We also work very
closely with employers in various steering
committees to ensure that the employers’
perspective is always included. This is a
unique mix in Irish publishing.
Facebook
More on
gradireland services
Best for targeting students:
➜ Over 200,000 opt-in students and graduates
registered on our database [October 2015]
➜ Unbeatable targeting by sector, institution, year
group or discipline
➜ Targeted emails and featured jobs = guaranteed
response
Best website:
“
I would recommend gradireland
to anyone who wants to recruit the cream
of young Irish graduates.
Karen Henry, Irish Education Partners
➜ #1 on Google for ‘graduate jobs’
and careers (source: trendence
Graduate Barometer)
➜ Ireland’s #1 graduate jobs and
careers website (source:
trendence Graduate Barometer)
➜ #1 on Google for ‘careers fair’
➜ #1 on Google for ‘graduate
and ‘graduate’ search terms
internships’
➜ Over 1.4 million unique users
(over 6.3 million page
impressions) from Oct 2014 to
Sep 2015 (source: Google
Analytics)
➜ Fully optimised for mobile and
tablet users
Employer Hubs
Featured job on
gradireland.com
Jobs and employers
➜ #1 for students researching jobs
Target
Online
Graduate profiles
Targeted emails
Annual online profile
Inside Buzz
Homepage banner campaign
Print
Company profile in the
gradireland directory
Events
Your campaign
National Student
Challenge partner
Ireland’s 100 leading
graduate employers
Career sector guides
GRADchances partner
Enter the gradireland
Graduate Recruitment Awards
Listing and display advert in Careers
Service Guides of leading Irish Universities
Stand at gradireland Graduate Careers Fair
Best publications
➜ gradireland: Ireland’s most-read, most established and
most trusted graduate careers directory (source:
trendence Graduate Barometer)
➜ Ireland’s 100 leading graduate employers: target top
students. Research-based, packed with employer insights
➜ Sector guides: highly targeted, sector-specific guides to
reach decided students in your sector
➜ Careers service guides: target by university (Trinity
College Dublin and UCD)
Our services
Stand at sector-specific careers fairs
Stand at gradireland Summer Fair
Best events
➜ gradireland Graduate Careers Fair: Ireland’s biggest graduate recruitment event (5 October 2016)
➜ GRADchances – bespoke sector-specific invite-only events bringing employers together with top
student talent
➜ GRADchances STEM and Language Fairs – Sector-specific careers fairs to link employers with
students with particular skill backgrounds (16 and 17 February 2016)
➜ gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards: the most important night of the year for graduate
recruiters (28 April 2016)
➜ gradireland Summer Fair: access graduates as they are about to leave university (8 June 2016)
➜ New for 2016: gradireland #FYI (2 March 2016)
gradireland website
Key stats
➜ Over 1.4 million annual
visitors
➜ Over 6.3 million page
impressions per year
➜ 29 specialist career
sector pages.
Searchable jobs
Leaderboard
MPU Display
(Mid Page Unit)
Site fully
optimised for
mobile and
tablet users
Site sponsor
Featured jobs
Inside Buzz
“
gradireland is a great site.
We’ve been getting tons of qualified
applicants for our new Dublin position.
Partner buttons
Jason Martin, iotum
Upcoming deadlines
Career advice
Ireland’s 100 leading
graduate employers
Twitter feed
Marketing MPU
Why use gradireland.com?
➜ With over 1.4 million annual visitors and 6.3 million page impressions per year,
gradireland.com is the only site for employers looking for year-round branding and
instant response.
➜ With more employers than any other Irish careers site and thousands of vacancies
advertised each year, gradireland.com is the first choice for jobhunting students.
➜ As Ireland’s leading graduate website, gradireland.com is home to hundreds of
articles on every aspect of graduate career planning, from sector and employer
research through application processes to salary surveys and sectoral trend
analysis.
➜ 29 specialist career sector pages.
➜ Over 200,000 students registered as of October 2015.
Students find it first
➜ gradireland.com is returned at #1 when ‘graduate careers’, ‘graduate jobs’ or just
‘graduate’ is entered into Google.
➜ gradireland.com is positioned as the number one destination for students seeking
jobs and careers advice; 68% of traffic to gradireland is sourced via search engines
(a large proportion of which is through branded search terms), 19% comes from
partner links such as career service websites, and 13% comes direct to the site.
Our website
Unique users – year on year growth
1,400,000
1,500,000
1,204,926
1,200,000
975,161
900,000
583,116
600,000
300,000
386,127
+21%
0
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Employer hubs
Key benefits
➜ Video profiles increase
time on page (source:
Google Analytics)
➜ Over 466,000 annual
pageviews
➜ Comprehensive guide to
your organisation for
potential applicants.
Link directly to
your graduate
careers website
Inside Buzz
➜ Inside Buzz is a peer-topeer platform designed to
give students, graduates
and young professionals
an insight into the
organisations they may
want to join. Current
graduates working in your
company are surveyed on
a range of subjects
including company
culture, interview process,
hours, salaries and more.
The results are hosted on
gradireland within your
Employer Hub.
Maximise
engagement
using video
Add in links to your social
networking sites and blogs
➜ Inside Buzz has been
called “TripAdvisorTM for
graduate recruitment”.
➜ Peer-to-peer reviews are
the best and most credible
way to market your
organisation to potential
hires in the war for Top
Talent. Make sure you
have the Inside Buzz!
Use QR codes in print titles to
link between your offline and
online presence
Link directly to
your graduate
careers website
Showcase awards and
ranking accolades
Employer Hubs
➜ Your online profile is the cornerstone of your annual
➜ Link to all your jobs, internships or recruitment events
➜ Live updates from your blogs and social networking sites
presence on gradireland.com.
➜ Essential branding – places your organisation in front of the
1.4 million+ annual visitors who are using gradireland.com
to research potential employers and careers sectors each year.
posted on gradireland.com.
➜ Online profiles are accessed from relevant entry points
across the site, including sector pages, driving traffic to
your own site.
➜ Showcase profiles of recent graduates currently working in
Employer
Hubs
feed into your online profile.
your company for peer-to-peer endorsement.
Access gradireland’s unrivalled student and graduate database
excels as a specialist website as it
allows both in-bound traffic (students and graduates
accessing the website to search for jobs, employers,
careers advice and more) and out-bound
communication. Our database of over 200,000
registered students and graduates enables us to send
targeted messages out on behalf of employers. And
because our brand is trusted and our database is
created by students setting up their own profile and
being in control of the information they receive, our
out-bound communications are highly effective.
➜ Response We have average open rates of 35%,
and often as high as 50% or more, when emails
are sent to a carefully targeted subset of our
database.
➜ Trust We ensure we only send our registered users
information they want and value. We do not spam
our database.
➜ Targeted Out-bound communications back up
online, print and event activity perfectly. Let
students know about your new online profile; tell
them when you will be attending an event; advise
them of closing dates or open days.
There are a number of ways in which employers can
use our database to send targeted communications to
students and graduates, and these are outlined on the
page below.
Total 2016
graduates
Universities
72%
Other
institutions
28%
International reach
As part of the world’s largest graduate recruitment publishing
company, GTI can help you attract and recruit internationally.
Number of graduates in our database by sectors
Accountancy and financial support
Agriculture, animal and plant resources
Banking, insurance and financial services
Charities and voluntary sector
Construction, civil engineering and QS
Emergency services and armed forces
Engineering
Environment and natural resources
Fund management and investment banking
Hosptality, sport, leisure and tourism
Human resources, recruitment and training
IT and telecoms
Languages and cultures
Law, legal services and patents
Library and information services
Logistics and transport
Management consulting
Management, business, administration
Manufacturing and processing
Marketing, advertising and PR
Media and publishing
Medical and healthcare
Performing and creative arts
Property
Public sector and civil service
Retail, sales and customer services
Science, research and development
Social, community and youth
Teaching and education
Over 200,000
students to target
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Reach the gradireland database using featured jobs
➜ Your immediate vacancy or graduate scheme appears
in a prime position on the
homepage, clicking through to the full job posting,
which will also be linked to your online profile.
➜ In addition, featured jobs are emailed out to
relevant registered users in our database.
Database and
featured jobs
Send targeted emails to the gradireland database
Band A
0–2,000 recipients
€950*
Campus presentation
invitations Band A
Ensure that you maximise
student attendance at your
campus presentations through
a gradireland targeted email.
This will ensure that only the
most suitable students for
your graduate or internship
programme[s] are aware of
your offering, and when and
where you’ll be on campus.
*This mail will be sent to a
maximum of three campuses
that you will be attending, and
up to three targeted segments
of our database.
Band B
2,000–5,000
€1,250
Band C
5,001–8,000
€1,500
Band D
Band E
8,001–14,000
€2,150
14,001–20,000
€2,750
Band F
20,001+
€3,355
How to get hired? Bands B, C or D
If you want to target students and market your firm and your graduate opportunities, why not connect
with them directly to brief them on your graduate programme application process through a targeted,
‘how to get hired’ mail? This highly effective mail will provide students with all the information they need
to know about your firm and how to improve their chances of landing that job with your firm.
Top-up recruitment Bands C, D or E
If applicant quantity or quality needs a boost, send a targeted email to relevant candidates through a topup recruitment mail to suitable sub-sections of our talentpool. Immediate response.
Campaign announcement/closing deadline/
immediate recruitment/attendance at a
careers fair Bands D & E
“
gradireland is a fantastic resource for
targeting graduates. We have worked with the
gradireland targeted email on many occasions as it
offers the potential of targeting by sectors (such as
sales and marketing). The email also reaches a
highly relevant audience and this is reflected in the
open rate of the emails. A relevant reach and
friendly team. Colin Devenny, Blue Cube Interactive
Do you need to engage with students to let them know about your
upcoming deadlines or to market an immediate vacancy? Do you
need to market your attendance at an upcoming careers fair? If so,
then a targeted email to our database will ensure that the right
students have the most up-to-date information on your graduate
opportunities.
Competitions Bands D, E or F
If you have a competition offering or special offer for students, this targeted email will ensure the best
response to not only market your company and brand, but also drive entries and click throughs to
complement your campaign.
Use the gradireland database for brand or product research
Early engagement/internships Bands D & E
Student research Bands A, B or C
With internships becoming increasingly important for students as
they make their career choices, as well as for employers in creating
and developing a talent pipeline, the internship mail is a costeffective way for you to communicate the benefits of your
internship programme to relevant students and to encourage
them to apply ahead of your closing deadline.
Are you looking to gain an insight into how students perceive your brand or products? Are students’
opinions important to you? If so, connect directly with students and graduates in Ireland’s largest student
database through a research-based questionnaire and let their views inform your marketing plan.
“
“
We are extremely happy with the
service provided by gradireland. In particular, the
targeted emails ensured a large number of
applications from strong candidates with the
desired profile. Patrick Cadwell, SEKISUI MEDICAL Co.
“
We got a great
response to the advert. I will
recommend your website to
clients looking to employ a
graduate. David Lafferty, FCCA
We are delighted with the success we have had in attracting applications
through the gradireland advertising process. The use of the buttons, banners and
targeted emails ensured we received maximum exposure to our target audience and
this was reflected in the high level of strong graduates who applied to us.
We have also found your personal assistance and advice a huge help
throughout the process. Tanya Hunt, The Central Bank of Ireland
Targeted
emails
gradireland directory – the official careers directory
The official careers directory
for all universities and
institutes of technology in
Ireland, with a special
Northern Ireland edition too
➜ 40,000 copies are distributed each year, reaching
students on every third-level campus in Ireland and
Northern Ireland.
➜ Promote your organisation and advertise your
vacancies, whatever your size or budget.
➜ The only graduate careers
directory in Ireland – it’s
guaranteed to be picked up
and read.
➜ Endorsed, promoted and
recommended by all careers
advisers.
➜ Fully integrated with
– complement
your directory profile with an
online profile for maximum effect.
➜ All gradireland publications are
also available online.
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➜ The 100 most popular employers as voted for in
Ireland’s largest student poll.
➜ Lists the top employers in 12 key sectors of work.
➜ Based on an independent research survey
conducted by trendence, Europe’s leading graduate
research firm.
➜ Distributed exclusively to students in the top
universities through departments and careers
services.
➜ Acts as an invaluable research tool and reference
guide for students, careers services, professional
institutions and businesses across Ireland.
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Challenge; through print titles and at events; and
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Deloitte www.deloitte.com/ie
Jameson-Irish Distillers www.irishdistillers.ie
Dept of Foreign Affairs www.dfa.ie
RTÉ www.rte.ie
Diageo www.diageo.com/en-ie
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Ireland’s 100
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The gradireland range of sector guides – to target students with sector-specific skills
Essential products to reach students focused on specific careers
Titles in the series
Sector guides advertising options
• Engineering • IT • Finance • Law • Languages
➜ Highly focused sector-specific careers
information.
➜ Distributed to and used by academic
departments – niche targeting.
➜ Written by careers and industry experts.
➜ Hugely popular with department heads and
career-minded students.
➜ Distributed at campus fairs and
recommended by careers services.
➜ Designed to promote your organisation as a
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Target students at leading universities
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This is an excellent
publication and will be of immense
value to engineering students.
Engineers Ireland
➜ Highly focused – promote your organisation
exclusively to students in key universities.
➜ Careers advisers promote the Careers Service
Guide in their classwork.
➜ Perfect for promoting internships as well as
advertising vacancies.
➜ Written by, used and promoted by individual
university careers services.
gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards
gradireland Graduate
Recruitment Awards 2016
28 April 2016, The Mansion House, Dublin
The gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards
and gala dinner in The Mansion House, Dublin is
Ireland’s premier event to celebrate and
recognise the strength of employer brands on
campus and excellence in graduate recruitment.
as voted in
“
Congratulations on the Awards, you are upping
the game every year. Paul Vance, KPMG
The gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards
recognise Ireland’s most popular graduate
recruiters, as voted for in a huge poll of
undergraduates, as well as the recruiters with the
best marketing campaign, work experience or
internship programme, and a host of other
categories (see panel on right).There are also
sponsorship packages available for companies
wishing to associate themselves with the best in
Irish graduate recruitment.
media partner
research partner
Nominate your company for the following
awards:
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Best Graduate Recruitment Website
Best Innovation on Campus
Best Student Marketing Campaign
Best Internship Programme
The gradireland Diversity Recruitment Award
Best Graduate Training and Development
Programme
➜ Graduate Employee of the Year
➜ Graduate Employer of the Year
To reflect the continued growth in quality and quantity
of submissions, silver and bronze awards have been
added to all nominated awards categories, widening
your chances of success!
“
Well done to you all for putting on
such a great night! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Please make sure you let me know as soon
as next year’s date is secured so I can put it
in the diary. Jane Murphy, Google
“
The Graduate Recruitment Awards was a well
organised showcase of higher education partnerships
with employers. A very successful event.
Seamus McConomy, University of Ulster
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Stand options
There are a huge range of stand options available, to
suit all budgets. However, stand positions are booked
up very early so we would encourage you to contact
your Account Manager to reserve your stand location
at the earliest available opportunity.
Specialist zones help direct students within the hall.
Each fair also features Jobs Walls throughout the hall.
These display live opportunities for students which
they can apply to directly (over 3,500 live jobs were
advertised at the October 2015 gradireland Graduate
Careers Fair). This is a key factor in driving student
attendance and they are carefully positioned to ensure
consistent footfall around the hall.
5 October 2016, RDS, Dublin
graduate careers fair
110 stands • 7,000+ students • interview facilities • company presentations
➜ Extensively promoted to the gradireland.com database of registered
students and by careers services on campuses nationwide to maximise
student participation.
➜ Meet thousands of career-minded students in one place.
➜ Unique sector-based floor plan.
➜ Expert CV clinics and extensive range of seminars ensure all-day
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➜ The official national graduate careers fair in Ireland.
➜ Social media support ensured the event trended on Twitter last year.
“
Thank you so much for your help [at the
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the whole experience and were overwhelmed with the
enthusiastic response we received from the students on
the day. Eddie Dwyer, Jaguar Land Rover
Pre-event marketing is crucial to drive relevant and
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of your unique graduate offering. Options include
targeted emails to the gradireland talent pool,
advertising in the pre-fair magazine and on the event
web pages, and banner/MPU campaigns on
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National College
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“
Had a lovely time at #gradireland
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Maynooth
University
St Patrick’s College
Drumcondra
The Open University
Trinity College
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Waterford Institute
of Technology
8 June 2016, RDS, Dublin
gradireland event magazine
➜ 15,000 copies distributed three weeks before the
fair to all campuses in Ireland.
➜ Reaches all students, including those unable to
attend.
➜ At the event it is also important to stand out.
Options here include advertising in the event
programme, inserting promotional material in the
attendee goody-bags, and having drop-down
banners around the hall.
gradireland Events App
➜ Access the profiles of all registrants and their
information
➜Rolling timeline feed – attendees and exhibitors
contribute to the feed
➜Use push notifications to drive student engagement
summer fair
More than 40 exhibitors’ stands • 4,000+ students
• interview facilities • organisation presentations
➜ Promote your vacancies to motivated graduates available to start
immediately.
➜ Perfect for promoting internships to recent graduates or students going
into their final year.
➜ Held after finals to ensure that attendees are career-focused.
➜ Extensively promoted to the gradireland.com database of registered
students and by careers services on campus nationwide to maximise
student participation.
➜ Expert CV clinics and extensive range of seminars ensure all-day
attendance from students seeking careers advice as well as jobs.
Post-fair is often a great opportunity to reinforce
impressions made at careers fairs. Send a targeted
email to attendees following up with additional
information and links.
Maximise your fair presence
“
Well done on the Summer Fair
yesterday – great event, great day. There
were lots of students around and it went
very well. I heard there was a great buzz up
in the seminar rooms too!
Julie Goggins, Third Level Liaison, Engineers Ireland
➜ GRADchances are a series of innovative invite-only events which
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➜ Engage with relevant students via case study scenarios, bespoke
team challenges and presentations.
➜ Each event is developed exclusively for employers in a specific
discipline to network with top students .
➜ Targeted invitations to final and penultimate year students
guarantee attendance.
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FD maintain a close link with gradireland and
their events as they are targeted, creative
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providing that fun factor which ignites passion in the
students when considering their career choices.
Liz O’Hanlon, First Derivatives
Careers fairs
gradireland National Student Challenge
More on
Check out the challenge for yourself at
gradireland.com/challenge
“
Now in its fifth year, the National Student Challenge is
a unique event from gradireland. It combines online
assessment of the business acumen of students in the
top universities in Ireland with Final Day event-based
challenges in order to identify and recognise Ireland’s
brightest and most able undergraduates.
The students who take part in the online assessment
are ranked on an overall leaderboard. The top 60
students then progress to a Final Day contest where
they complete a series of challenges which are created
in conjunction with cut-e and which reflect partner
companies’ recruitment criteria and core
competencies. The overall winning students receive
cash prizes and each challenge also produces its own
individual winner.
“
It’s great to see employers supporting this type of
competition and getting some engagement with students.
That’s probably the most important thing.
David Galbraith, National Student Champion 2012
We have been really impressed by the standard of
students here. Some of them seemed to have the complete
package; brains, personality and charisma. It’s great to see.
Susan Murdock, Graduate Programme Manager at Bank of Ireland (BoI)
Partnership opportunities
The gradireland National Student Challenge has been designed to allow
organisations to partner with gradireland in two ways.
The contest will go online in September, with the Final Day taking place
in March. So take up the Challenge and partner with us in this bold,
innovative and exciting competition.
Gold partner
Limited to eight organisations, the Gold partnership package will give
extensive exposure on campuses and media channels across Ireland.
Benefits include: logo featured prominently on all marketing collateral
and dedicated website; sponsorship of an individual exercise at the
final event; online profile on event site; banners in the Final Day
venue; advertising in the event programme; optional and free
consultation with cut-e; all student data consisting of Leaving
Certificate results, degree subject, email addresses, each individual’s
online exercise scores and assessment scores of the finalists; and full
post event feedback report.
Silver partner
The Silver partnership package includes: logo featured on all marketing
collateral and dedicated website; online profile on dedicated website;
advertising in event programme; bag insert in goody bags for all finalists.
Key dates for your diary
Make sure you don’t miss
out on any of the gradireland
events in 2016!
27/january/2016
Dublin city centre
10/February/2016
further study fair
science
STEM fair
engineering
technology
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RDS, Dublin
16/February/2016
Dublin city centre
17/February/2016
RDS, Dublin
2/March/2016
RDS, Dublin
23/March/2016
New for 2016
UCD Quinn Business School, Dublin
➜ To help drive early engagement, gradireland#FYI
is a content creation and student engagement
campaign, culminating in an event on 2 March.
➜ This is a unique, experiential event to bring first
year students together with employers,
professional bodies, career professionals and
more.
➜ To find out more about how you can ensure your
employer brand is communicated to students
from day one, contact your Account Manager.
28/April/2016
The Mansion House,
Dawson Street, Dublin
8/june/2016
summer fair
RDS, Dublin
5/October/2016
graduate careers fair
RDS, Dublin
For a full list of gradireland’s
events see gradireland.com/
search/events. To book
attendance at any of the
events listed above please
call your account manager
on +353 (0)1 645 1500.
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and Key dates
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