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Career opportunities
BESS is your roadmap to a wide and varying career. About 50%
of our graduates proceed to further study in masters and doctoral
programmes both in Ireland and abroad. The remaining 50% enter
a diverse range of employment opportunities in areas such as:
Accountancy, Banking & corporate finance, International
organisations, Journalism, Law, Marketing, Management
consulting, Politics, Public service, Teaching, Policy bodies,
and Voluntary organisations. See
for further details.
The BESS multidisciplinary approach will help you build valuable
career skills such as the ability to communicate effectively, work
in and lead teams, conduct research and analyse complex
problems – all of which will prepare you for rapid advancement
within the flexible career structures that are the hallmark of
modern employment.
Further information
Tel: +353 1 896 1840
E-mail:
Student Profile
Susan Murray
“Leaving cert year is stressful enough without having to
decide on a future career path! The degree options available
dazzled me and at best, confused my intentions towards
any particular vocation. It was then I decided not to close my
options too soon, and make the decision at a later stage.
BESS afforded me with this option. I was confident
I could make a better informed decision if I sampled
several subjects from different faculties before making the
‘ultimate’ choice. I fancied myself studying business, but
was always curious about international politics, and even
accounting seemed enticing! My first year in BESS gave
me an invaluable insight into a multiplicity of business
related subjects as well as an introduction to social and
political science.
To my surprise, my original intentions of pursuing business
altered through trying other subjects I never would have
thought to do before university. That’s mainly how BESS
ended up being such a great decision for me – it set
me in the right direction. I chose to follow a degree in
Sociology, intertwined with similarly related business
subjects (e.g. Industrial relations, Human resource
management, Management and the European labour
market). This combination would never have appealed to
me before university, but was positively the right choice
for me career wise.
The world is your oyster being a BESS graduate! It
does not confine you to Ireland, or indeed Europe. The
degree prepares you well. My extensive knowledge of
international markets and international relations presented
me with many opportunities to experience professional
life abroad. Who would have thought I would be living and
working in Russia?”
