Peer support for internship
Final year students of the programme TU874 BSc (Hons) Mathematical & Statistics met with their third-year counterparts to support them with their upcoming internships and work placements.
The Work Placement is an important component of our full-time undergraduate honours degree programme in which all penultimate-year students have the opportunity to work within our partner companies to not only experience the range of highly-skilled and challenging roles available to mathematics and statistics graduates but also to build their career readiness and their professional skillsets. This is one of the reasons that TU Dublin has the highest graduate employment rate in the Dublin area. The students have the opportunity to experience the workplace in high profile companies and see how their learning is used, and relied upon, in a wide variety of sectors.
The session brought together fourth-year students who completed their work placement last year with this year's current third year to share their experience, useful insights and tips and offer support in undertaking the work placement element of the programme. It was a hugely successful event, facilitated by Dr Laura Cooke and featured experience of many of our partner companies including AIB, StateStreet, Zurich, Davy, EdgeTier, CSO, amongst others.