Description
Webinar #31 offers to give essential tips for both Parents and Students entering TY 2026/2027.
Career Decisions are influenced by students being given, and supported to take, any opportunities that allow them to become more self aware. Transition year offers students many opportunities outside their studies that will help them realise what they enjoy, what they are good at and most importantly help them start narrowing down what they are best suited to doing in their futures.
Having worked in Career Guidance since 1998, in state schools and private practise, I have seen how students have varied in their approach with TY and what it offers. The more involved a student is in TY, taking opportunities, finding relevant work experience to check out interests – the greater the focus and decision making going into 5th/6th year. This webinar aims to guide parents on how to help support their son/daughter get the most out of TY. We will go through varying opportunities provided within TY programmes in schools and what is available to TY students outside of school. You will get insight from Guidance Counsellors, College reps, Parents & Students.
Guest Speakers
** Guest Speakers include Tom Farrell Guidance Counsellor and CareersNews and Aisling O’Connor on her TY Student experience**
Previous guests include include Mary Lynch McKenna NTO on Tertiary Degrees, Donal Enright Teacher and student 2025; previous speakers include TUS, UL, CareersNews, Classroom Guidance, UCC, Maynooth University, DCU and parent/student perspective .
Timing
- 0-39 minutes: Synergy Careers, Julie O’Connor outlines what you can expect in a TY programme, activities and opportunities that are available to TY Students within the school curriculum and ones provided by outside organisations eg GAA Future Leaders, Junk Kouture, Student Enterprise Programme (ones to suit all interests). We refer to subject choice for leaving cert and key resources to support careers exploration in TY
- 39-53 minutes: CareersNews, Tom Farrell gives a career guidance perspective of do’s and don’ts for students while also outlining the benefits of signing up to Careersnews Newsletter as Parents & Students
- 53-60 minutes: Student Experience, Aisling O’Connor joins us giving her insights of the benefits of TY for her, the opportunites she engaged with and how it helped in her career decisions as she is now studying to be a dance teacher in the UK.