A period of work placement is incorporated into many of the undergraduate degrees here at UCC. Today’s employers are looking for candidates with both academic prowess and practical work experience. It’s no longer enough to study hard and achieve good grades, employers expect you to have hands-on experience in your chosen industry. The value of…
Tattoos have long had a controversial reputation in the world of work, largely due to a perception of criminality or distrust. A Peninsula Ireland survey found that 76% of Irish employers would not hire someone if they were displaying a visible tattoo. The survey, carried out in 2015 also concluded that if two candidates were…
The winter months can be awful. In fact, they can be some of the worst months in the year, especially for a student. How many essays have you had due recently? I bet you have another MCQ coming up soon. We’re just over the halfway mark of the semester, and work just seems to be…
This article is the first in a new series of collaborative efforts by Irish student journalists. The team comes from four student newspapers across Ireland’s largest four cities. We aim to tell the key stories of our generation, starting off with this in depth look at Ireland’s housing crisis. We are living in a world…
Writes Ciara Norman This year’s STAND Student Festival ran from 12-24th October. An initiative of Suas Educational Development supported by Irish Aid, the festival boasted an impressive programme of events. The festival’s theme was Climate Migration and the issue was really brought to life through the wide variety of events on offer including workshops hosted…
Class of 2020, you’ve seen it all. Your graduating year will forever be defined by the vague threat of World War III, Australian wildfires, Trump’s impeachment, mass global unemployment and of course, a little thing we call Covid-19 (and this was all within the first three months.) But you didn’t let anything stop you. I’ve…
Writes Paul McLauchlan There’s not much to second guess in images of celebrities Kim Kardashian West and Paris Hilton strutting in and out of a gas station in Los Angeles. It is also no surprise seeing the pair dressed in matching velour tracksuits straight from Kardashian West’s shapewear line SKIMS. Yet, this is a world…
Writes Aoife Gleeson Plastic has to be the best invention that mankind has ever made, right? I mean it is super cheap and easy to produce, has literally millions of uses, and is both strong and durable but crucially lightweight. So, this has to be a “super-material”? Plastics were first produced commercially in the 1970s…
Writes Andrea Horgan Imagine walking into your favourite coffee shop for a cappuccino and a natter with your friends for your weekly catch up or going for a few pints with the lads (when COVID-19 finally departs us that is!). Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Imagine knowing exactly what you want to order, but suddenly nothing…
Who doesn’t love a random act of kindness? One frosty night last Winter I was walking past Fitzgerald’s Park on the way to the Mardyke and I came across a lady who’d been locked into the park (it’s a common enough occurrence, it has happened to me twice before.) I had ABBA blasting through my…