DCU Podcasts: Career Conversations

In this episode we meet with Aisha Siwar, EPL graduate 2021 who participated in WIP during the summer of 2021. Aisha shares her experiences of the programme and her top tips when applying.

The Davy Group joined you last year to record this episode and we are sharing it again

We were joined earlier in the year in Season Two by the Defence Forces.  They are attending the fair too and we are repeating this episode

Vertice was established in 2010, to provide Consulting Services related to Oracle.

In the current technology market, their focus is to ensure both existing clients and new clients are enabled, in terms of consolidation platforms and cloud solutions from Oracle. They also assist and accelerate ongoing Oracle Solutions. We can provide expert advice through our seasoned consultants, provide end to end implementation teams, assist existing project team or provide specific training needs.

We also offer managed services where we can provide support, maintenance and hosting services. They cater for SME to Enterprise level businesses and If its Oracle we can assist, enable and accelerate your solution.

The Jameson International Graduate Programme

offers the opportunity to kick-start your career in marketing on a global stage, working for the world’s most iconic Irish Whiskey brand.

Musgrave own 11 food retail and wholesale brands, many of which are high street stores you see and shop in every day. And whilst you’ll know SuperValu and Centra, you may not know that Musgrave owns these brands along with top Irish coffee brand Frank and Honest, high-end Dublin food chain Donnybrook Fair and Spanish supermarket Dialprix. Musgrave also own the largest wholesale and foodservice business in Ireland, Musgrave MarketPlace, and are exporting their brands globally.

Arista Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency trading environments.

Square is a mission driven organisation, everything is around economic empowerment and supporting SMEs to thrive in business. Square continually build new products to provide them with new and sophisticated business solutions answering, and sometimes even preempting their business requirements.

Welcome back to Season Three. It is Semester One 2021/2022 and we are beginning this season with a update on the the Virtual Recruitment Jobs Fair which will take place on Tuesday 28th of September between 12 pm and 4 pm

In the second part of this episode with Dr. Martin McAleese, we focus on confidence. We all know that feeling of wanting to 'avoid the front row' - avoid being noticed. Sometimes we fear that our decisions and actions might make us look foolish.

Dr. McAleese draws on his extensive experience and his own struggles with confidence to talk us through his career journey and the transitions he has made: Understanding that fear of failure is perfectly normal while the key to successful career transition comes from accepting the opportunities to 'stretch' our experience, convert thought into action and make confident career decisions.

Episode Recorded 4th May 2021.