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Interested in the paths that current students and soon to be graduates are taking? The CIT Alumni Office offers you that opportunity. Check out some of these profiles and get a taste for how successful you could become after your chosen course at CIT...

Eimear graduated from CIT in 2019 with a first-class honours result in Bachelor of Business (Honours) course. Subsequently, she received the best stu dent award for her course. During her time in CIT, she was a committee member of the Business So ciety, a Student Alumni Ambassador and worked for Stryker as part of her work placement. She is now on the Musgrave Graduate Programme and enjoying her new role which involves sourcing own brand products for SuperValu, Centra and Musgrave Wholesale. The role is varied and involves negotia tions with suppliers across the world, some travel opportunities and regular development modules in the Irish Management Institute. http://linkedin.com/in/eimear-c-09753b138

Owen recently graduated from CIT with First Class Honours in Msc. Marketing Practices in September 2019. His undergrad background was in Agriculture but he decided to expand on this and pursue a marketing role within the finan cial industry. As part of his Masters placement, he w a s based in a large credit union in Waterford. Since then, he has developed his role and is now working full-time as digital marketing officer, project lead for an agri finance package and is also junior operations officer for the credit union. He says, “the financial industry is extremely competitive and forever changing”. His one piece of advice to graduates entering the workplace is to “be proactive not reactive in their roles”. https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-young-5b3171172/

The CIT Alumni Office develops and supports alumni relations at CIT through a number of initiatives. The office encourages links between CIT and its graduates and supports the ever-growing CIT Alumni community. The community proudly has over 30,000 members.