The Career Platform for Higher Education

Everything your students need to go from classroom to career.

Application tracking, a curated job feed, hidden roles, real employer sponsorship history, and a resume builder, in one platform, across cybersecurity, finance, construction, data analytics, and English language courses alike.

Free 60-day pilot • No setup fee • No long-term commitment

Your competitors are already having this conversation

Ireland enrolled a record number of international students last year, and every college is competing for the same growing pool of applicants. Students are no longer asking only about courses—they're asking what happens after graduation.

Career outcomes have become one of the strongest differentiators when students choose where to study. Institutions that can demonstrate structured career support and employment outcomes stand out.

44,500+

International students enrolled in Ireland last year.

~30%

Year-over-year growth in Indian enrolments.

80.2%

Irish graduates find work within nine months.

Most students are job hunting with no system at all

Whatever the course—cybersecurity, finance, construction, healthcare, business, or English language—the pattern looks the same without a platform behind it.

Without a structured system, students waste time, lose momentum, and miss opportunities that could have been found months earlier. NextJobStep helps colleges support students before graduation—not after the job search has already stalled.

No record of what was sent, where, or when.
Guessing which employers actually sponsor international graduates.
Roles that never surface on the major job boards.
Months lost learning the Irish job market after graduating.

Built around what your students actually need

Free, individual

Self-Track

Paste a job link and NextJobStep automatically imports the job details, tracks every application, and moves it through your pipeline—from Not Yet Applied to Offer Received. Students stay organized without spreadsheets.

Built for your institution

College Partnership

One subscription gives every student access to everything NextJobStep offers, including a curated job feed, AI career tools, visa sponsorship insights, your own branded portal, and an analytics dashboard for your careers team.

See the full breakdown

Paste a link. Watch it work.

This is the actual Self-Track product — drop a job posting URL and NextJobStep fetches the details, adds it to the pipeline, and scores the match automatically.

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Applied

Screening

Interview

Offer

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Self-Track — consistency, not just tracking

Most students begin their job search with energy, but momentum usually drops after a few weeks. Self-Track helps students stay consistent by making progress visible and keeping every application organised in one place.

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What your college gets with a NextJobStep partnership

Every student receives full platform access

Students can explore jobs, build resumes, prepare for interviews, and understand employer sponsorship history from the beginning of their course.

Career services dashboard

Monitor engagement, applications, interviews, and employment outcomes across your student cohorts.

Your own branded portal

Launch NextJobStep under your institution's branding with a dedicated college experience.

Industry-specific job feeds

Choose the industries relevant to your programmes so students only see opportunities that matter.

Post your own events and opportunities

Share career fairs, employer events, workshops, and exclusive opportunities directly with your students.

Everything students need in one platform

Instead of checking multiple job boards, spreadsheets, resume builders, and interview websites, students get one platform designed specifically for international graduates in Ireland.

Every major job board in one feed

LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, IrishJobs, Jobs.ie, GradIreland, and more—aggregated into a single searchable experience.

Employer sponsorship history

See which employers have previously sponsored international graduates before applying.

Hidden SME opportunities

Roles sourced directly from Irish startups and SMEs that never appear on public job boards.

Early job fair alerts

Career fairs and employer events before they become widely available.

Interview preparation

Industry-specific interview question banks built from real student experiences.

AI Resume Builder

Create resumes that follow Irish employer expectations with guided AI assistance.

ATS Resume Checker

Detect formatting and keyword issues before submitting applications.

Community

Students can share experiences, ask questions, and learn from one another.

Application tracking

Automatically manage every application from one dashboard.

Every major job board, aggregated

One feed. All the boards.

LinkedInIndeedGlassdoorIrishJobsJobs.ieGradIrelandLinkedInIndeedGlassdoorIrishJobsJobs.ieGradIreland

Built specifically for international students—not general job seekers

Before a student submits a single application, NextJobStep shows whether that employer has a real history of sponsoring international graduates. Instead of guessing, students can focus their time on companies with a proven track record.

Most job boards simply list vacancies. NextJobStep combines employer sponsorship history, application tracking, hidden opportunities, AI career tools, and curated job feeds into one platform built specifically for Ireland's international student market.

Employer sponsorship history

Real permit history shown before students apply.

Students spend less time applying to employers that have never sponsored international graduates and more time focusing on realistic opportunities. Colleges benefit from better engagement, stronger career outcomes, and improved graduate success.

Why colleges choose NextJobStep instead of general job boards

Built specifically for Ireland's international students

NextJobStepYes
General BoardsNo

Employer sponsorship history

NextJobStepHistorical permit data
General BoardsNot available

Application tracking

NextJobStepAutomatic
General BoardsSpreadsheet/manual

AI Resume Builder

NextJobStepIncluded
General BoardsSeparate tool

ATS Resume Checker

NextJobStepIncluded
General BoardsSeparate tool

Interview preparation

NextJobStepIndustry-specific
General BoardsGeneric resources

Hidden SME opportunities

NextJobStepIncluded
General BoardsNo

College analytics dashboard

NextJobStepIncluded
General BoardsNo

Industry-specific job feeds

NextJobStepYes
General BoardsNo

Getting started is a short conversation, not a long onboarding

01

Choose your tags

Tell us which industries your students are training for.

02

Students get feed access

Curated, filtered to your chosen tags, available while they're still studying.

03

Tracking switches on at graduation

Automatically — no manual setup required per student.

04

You get the dashboard

Engagement and outcome data, visible to your team whenever you need it.

Frequently asked questions

Does this replace our existing career services team?

No — it gives your team a dashboard and your students a better set of tools. NextJobStep handles the job-search infrastructure so your career advisors can focus on the parts that need a human.

What happens to student data?

We'll walk you through our data handling and privacy practices on a call — happy to go through the specifics for your institution before you commit to anything.

Do students pay for this themselves?

Billing depends on how your college wants to set up the partnership — reach out and we'll go through the options together.

How long does it take to set up for our college?

Choosing your industry tags and getting your admin dashboard access is the bulk of the setup — most of the platform experience works the same for every partner college from day one.

What if our students are studying a field NextJobStep doesn't cover yet?

Tell us on a call — we'll talk through how uncovered fields or tags would be handled for your student body.

Give your international students a real path from classroom to career

No commitment required to have the conversation — we'll walk you through exactly what your students would see.

Talk to us about a college partnership