How do start my career.

sashafierce

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dory

Is going back and doing a post grad diploma/ masters an option?

Really, I think teaching is not going to happen in Ireland. Business (which you may or may not be qualified to teach in) in way oversubscribed. An average teacher starting out seems to get about 10 hours, so that's E13,636 a year. And you'll be up against people with 1.1/masters etc for jobs.
If you really want to teach, there are many opportunities abroad and entrance into teacher training is easier.

Failing that, look for jobs for business graduates. Here are some ideas. I know it's London but it gives you an idea.

I'm in Canada right now on holidays. Can't get over the amount of jobs in this small rural town of 18,000. Newspapers are all advertising jobs, alongside articles on increased government spending and expansions. Between that and the great weather I don't understand why people are stubbornly hanging onto our sinking ship.

GAC999

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Ive an average results degree in accounting. Dont necessarily want to be an accountant but is there other options where i could further my career choice ie teaching.

I dont know where to start to find out this information the college i studied at was useless unless you were a top graduating student they were no help

Hi I'm accounting grad as well but I'm going the accounting route. I don't know if this will help but here's some of the info and options we were provided.

As previous post said it is hard for business grads to get a teaching position and we were advised we would have a better chance if we had experience and/or accounting qualification backing it up. This could also lead to possibly lecturing in future. Something to think about. As with what previous post said a couple of people from my course have gone teaching abroad.

Some of the other options we were given besides accountancy, were the obvious related fields tax, funds etc. But we could also go down route of HR, Marketing or a more management graduate program. There are lots of options, there are also lots of grad program's and grad jobs that are open to people from any degree or people with a business degree. They were a few technology companies like Microsoft that were hiring business grads as well. If you were interested you could google graduate jobs or look up grad Ireland for an idea.

Hope this helps and good luck!

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GAC999

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Thanks for that reply. Very helpful. Management or hr would be something ive never thought of but would be interested in. Is there further study that needs to be undertaken to pursue this

From what I remember it really depends on what modules you took or were covered in your degree to some extent. As I said there are some graduate program's that are looking towards management and I think you just need a business degree for them. I know if you wanted to do further study you could think about doing a post grad in management or hr. Depending in what modules you covered you could be eligible to get into a masters on something like management or marketing or do an MBA. I forgot to mention another career path could be something in e business and you could down the more IT route.

sashafierce

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dory

Check out this site for starters. I'm in a small town just outside Calgary right now. Alberta is an oil rich state with lots of money and jobs but it's not a hip happening young persons place like Toronto or Vancouver.

My main advice would be to start small, take a business type job that you like and use the experience to move upwards. Now, in my late 20's, my happiest friends are the ones who took a job and built on it. The ones for whom nothing was good enough are still going from entry level job to entry level job.

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The_Conductor

One area you may not have considered is credit control. Someone with a good accountancy background could make a good credit controller. Even in an Irish context- its one of the few job categories thats actually increased in demand of late (a sign of the times obviously)

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The_Conductor

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I'm sorry- I'm not an accountant myself (or a credit controller for that matter)- perhaps some of the other guys here may be able to shed some light on it.

freeze4real

In college/UNI you're treated like an adult, which involves making your own research and your decisions.

Your research is not limited to lecturers or guidance counsellors.

It's particularly difficult if you have no interest in accounting. I wanted to do accounting in college but missed out by 5 points.

I did economics instead. It was a blessing in disguise. Most of my mates who had/didn't have an interest in accounting didn't do well because if various reasons such as being boring, dufficult ( taxation or cost/management accounting).

But as the previous posters said they're are various routes to take.

With management consulting/ Hr a masters should should get you into one if those jobs then work you way up.

Fund accounting is another route, an extremely boring job but its often used as a stepping stone to other careers. As far as I know the wages in the first year are crap but after that your salary progresses. With these institutions I'm not sure if its mandatory to seat accounting exams but taking advantage of development programs is beneficial.


Based on the fact that you don't necessary want to be an accountant I'd suggest not doing any accountancy exams.

IMO a masters with a result of 2.1 > 1 & Bsc. is okay not just for you but for everyone, as far as you're contented.

Thars my 2cent. Good luck.