Junior Cycle

Have you ever thought about what you would like to do when you leave school? The Junior Cycle is a good time to start thinking about different career options and considering what subjects you might choose for Leaving Cert. We have lots of useful tools to help you start exploring yourself and the thousands of exciting career paths that lie ahead.

Explore different Career Sectors - for example, business, medicine, or beauty to get a picture of the types of skills and jobs involved in working in that particular area. 

Search hundreds of occupations in our Career Explorer to find out what the job involves, the type of person it would suit, what you might earn and the qualifications you would need.

You can also watch lots of career videos or read career stories with people employed in a variety of jobs across the country to get an insight into different sectors and industries. 

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Edel Butler
Administrative Officer - Edel Butler
Leanne O'Neill Project Officer TUSLA
Project Officer HR - Leanne O'Neill Project Officer TUSLA
Seafood Production Manager
Seafood Production Manager - Seafood Production Manager
Angela & Aoife: Apprentice Painters
Apprentice Painters / Decorators - Angela & Aoife: Apprentice Painters
Irish Tax Institute
Tax Careers - Irish Tax Institute

Join our complete Guidance programme designed for Irish Junior Cycle students (purchase required).

Build you own unique Career Portfolio through exploring our fun Island of Discovery as the programme takes you through a series of explorations about yourself, your motivations, and your dreams and ambitions.

What Career Type are you?

Creative?

Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.

Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.

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John Liston
John Liston, Project Manager

John Liston is a Project Manager with Treemetrics Ltd. The work placement John undertook in his degree has proved very important for his job now.

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Career Articles

Dr James Carton - Technology Director
Dr James Carton - Technology Director
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Laboratory Apprentice - Conell Blake
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Orla O'Sullivan - Bioinformatics Researcher
Orla O'Sullivan - Bioinformatics Researcher
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Hotel Manager
Hotel Manager
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Working in the Film Scoring Industry
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Kevin Roche - Research Engineer
Kevin Roche - Research Engineer
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