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Explore Careers That Let You Do What You Love!

Choosing subjects to study in school and courses to do at third level can be tricky and figuring out what career you want to do can be overwhelming.

Here at Smart Futures, we want to help you discover the STEM subjects and careers that might be right for you. You have the opportunity to discover what types of STEM careers are available to you and hear from people who work in STEM related jobs in Ireland. You will see the wide range of careers available, discover people who are working in STEM, the organisations they’re working in and also there are resources for parents, teachers and students in our Explore and Discover section.

#ThisIsSTEM Career Talk

We celebrated Engineers Week with a live career talk with Rahima Ahmed on Friday 26th February at 11 am

Rahima is a Civil Engineer at PUNCH Consulting Engineers. Rahima will talk about the exciting opportunities of a career in engineering and forward to chatting answering your questions.

Join us on the last week of March as we discuss a career in science with an industry professional.

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📣Engineers Ireland’s latest report found that 79% of engineering companies in Ireland are planning to recruit new staff this year!

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Join us live now for an exciting talk about engineering careers to celebrate #EngineersWeek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkXa33KqtGU&ab_channel=SFIDiscover

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Join us at 11 a.m. for our first #ThisIsSTEM Career talk.

To celebrate engineers week we will be joined by Rahima Ahmed from PUNCH Consulting Engineers.

Check it out here - http://ow.ly/L2tX50DJM5L

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