For AHSS students, the Graduate Recruitment and Placement Fair usually serves as an annual reminder that you feel STEM students are more likely to get hired than you following university. HOWEVER this does not necessarily have to be the case. On first glance the stalls do seem to be a sea of engineering companies, financial corporations and legal firms, but if you’re shrewd and look closely, these organisations may not be as cut off from you as they seem.
There are many businesses which appear at the Grad Fair who list that they will consider applications from ANY discipline. Whilst it may not be the most obvious connection for AHSS pathways or be exactly what you would like your future career to be, it does offer the opportunity to explore other ways in which you can use your degree and at the very least perhaps gain experience.
Below are a few of the businesses/organisations which state they will hire from ANY discipline:
- Accenture – Consulting
- Aldi – Management
- Amazon – Business
- Augentius UK – Real Estate
- Baker Tilly Mooney Moore – Business
- Bank of Ireland – HR, Retail
- Belfast City Council – Various
- B/E Aerospace – Supply Chain
- BP International – Business
- British Council – Languages
- BT – Technology and Business
- Cavanagh Kelly – Business
- Citi – Finance
- Deloitte – Consulting
- Diageo – Consumer Marketing
- Dunbia – Agri-Food
- Enterprise Ireland – management
- EY – Professional Services
- Goldblatt McGuigan – Professional Services
- Henderson Group – Management
- Heineken – Languages, Business
- HSCNI – Health and Social Care
- Hutchinson Engineering – Administration
- Jaguar Land Rover – HR
- Kingspan Group – Business Development
- KPMG – Finance
- Lidl – Management
- McKinsey and Company – consulting
- Monaghan Mushrooms – Management
- Musgrave Group – Buying
- Options Technology – management
- Public Appointments Service – administration
- Puppet Labs – IT
- PwC – Consulting
- Randox – HR and Training
- RBS/Ulster Bank – Banking
- Rolls Royce – Project Management
- Royal Air Force – Various
- Royal Navy – Various
And so many more! To find the full and updated list of companies which appeared at last year’s fair and the new companies this year go to MyFuture and find fairs under the ‘Events’ link.So this year, don’t avoid the fairs because you think nothing will apply to you. Companies appreciate the skill sets of AHSS students and can see potential in key future employees. Take advantage of having so many employers in the one room! (NH)