A note for your international office or careers team
A career outcomes partnership built for your students, not a generic jobs board.
You are seeing this page because we would like to partner with your institution. Below is everything NextJobStep does, exactly what a partnership includes, and why colleges across Ireland are moving on this now rather than next year.
FREE 60 DAY PILOT - NO SETUP FEE - NO LONG TERM CONTRACT
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. Institutions are shifting their pitch from recruitment alone to visible outcomes, because that is what is actually winning applicants now.
44,500+
international students enrolled in Ireland last year, a record high
~30%
year on year growth in Indian enrolments, now the largest source market
80.2%
of Irish graduates find work within nine months, the number every competing prospectus now leads with
One subscription, full access, for every student
This is not a stripped down version of the product. Every student at a partner college gets everything below, from their first day of the course.
Careers dashboard
Cohort at a glance
- 128
- Active students
- 412
- Applications this week
- 37
- Interviews booked
Pipeline mix this week
- Applied 62%
- Interview 24%
- Offer 14%
Illustrative college dashboard. Live numbers appear after a partnership is live.
Tracking that runs itself
Paste a link, the pipeline updates automatically through to offer.
Every board, one feed
LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, IrishJobs, Jobs.ie, GradIreland, aggregated.
Hidden roles
Small Irish employers and informal leads, sourced directly by our team.
Interview prep by field
Question banks built from real student interview experience.
Early job fair alerts
Career days and employer events before they are public.
Employer sponsorship history
Real permit data per employer, not a self reported flag.
A friendlier resume builder
A CV formatted the way Irish employers expect, without the anxiety.
ATS checker
Flags formatting issues before a student ever submits.
Community feed
Peer posts and questions alongside the listings, not job hunting alone.
Portfolio link included
GitHub, Behance, or a personal site travels with every application.
Your team can post too
Add your own listings and events straight into the platform.
An outcomes dashboard
Engagement and placement data your leadership can act on.
Self Track is built for consistency, not just logging
Most students start strong, ten applications in the first week, then momentum quietly drops. Self Track shows students their own pattern before the search stalls, and under a partnership, your team sees it too.
Wk 1
Wk 2
Wk 3
Wk 4
Wk 5
Illustrative pattern of search energy over five weeks, not live student data.
What partnering actually looks like
Straightforward terms, no procurement process required to get started.
60 days
Free pilot period
No setup fee, no long term contract attached to the trial.
Per student
Annual licensing
Priced per enrolled student, per year, once you move past the pilot.
Your tags
Set by your college
Choose the industries that match your student body, from day one.
Your subdomain
Designed around your branding
Students recognise it as yours from the first login.
Live in weeks, not semesters
01
Choose your tags
Tell us which industries your students train for.
02
Students get feed access
Filtered, available while they are still studying.
03
Tracking starts at graduation
Automatically, no manual setup per student.
04
You get the dashboard
Ready before your next intake cycle needs it.
Built specifically for this, not a general jobs board
Symplicity and Handshake are built for large universities with enterprise budgets. LinkedIn and Indeed have no tracking, no sponsorship history, and no college level dashboard.
| Feature | NextJobStep | LinkedIn / Indeed |
|---|---|---|
| Built in application tracking | Yes | No |
| Feed filtered to your industries | Yes | No |
| Employer sponsorship history | Yes, historical | No |
| AI resume builder + ATS checker | Yes | No |
| Your careers team can post directly | Yes | No |
| College level outcome dashboard | Yes | No |
Built in application tracking
Feed filtered to your industries
Employer sponsorship history
AI resume builder + ATS checker
Your careers team can post directly
College level outcome dashboard
Built across every course your college teaches
From cybersecurity to culinary arts, whatever your students are training for, they see relevant roles, events, and interview prep for it from day one, not a generic international jobs feed. These are the domains we are live with today, and the list keeps growing with every college we partner with.
What partnering says about your college
When a prospective student or their family is comparing colleges, this becomes part of the story you tell them directly: your careers team does not just teach, it actively tracks and supports where every student ends up. That visible commitment to student outcomes, not just admissions, is what builds a college reputation over time, with prospective students, with their parents, and with the education agents who recommend you. Partnering is not only about the data itself, it is a public signal that your institution values its students futures as much as their time in the classroom.
Every job fair, walk-in, and networking event in one place
Right now, information about career days, walk-in interview events, and employer networking nights is scattered, an email here, a noticeboard there, a message forwarded from a classmate. Students miss opportunities simply because they never heard about them in time. Under a partnership, every job fair, walk-in event, and networking opportunity your college has a relationship with lives in the same feed as everything else, so students see it once, in one place, instead of piecing it together from wherever it happens to surface.
You can see this working before you commit to anything
The only real cost is the one you are already paying: another enrolment cycle where a competing college answers "will I get a job here" with data, and you can only answer with reassurance.
What we need from you to start a pilot
No IT project and no student-by-student setup. A 20 minute call is enough to confirm the three things below.
- 01
Industry tags for your programmes
Cybersecurity, finance, construction, data analytics, English language, or another field you teach. The student feed is filtered to those tags from day one.
- 02
One careers or international-office contact
The person who will receive dashboard access and be the point of contact during the 60 day pilot.
- 03
An approximate student count
Enough to size the pilot cohort. Exact enrolment numbers can wait until you decide to continue after the trial.
Common questions
Does this only work for English language students?
No. NextJobStep covers colleges across IT and professional course types, cybersecurity, finance, DevOps, construction, data analytics, and business analytics, alongside English language and further education pathways. You set the industry tags that match your student body.
Does this replace our existing careers team?
No. It gives your team a dashboard, the ability to post your own listings and events, and your students better tools. The parts of careers support that need a human stay with your team, this handles the infrastructure around it.
How is the sponsorship data different from a sponsorship available filter elsewhere?
Some platforms show a listing level flag set by whoever posted the job. NextJobStep shows employer level history, how many permits that specific company has actually been granted, over what period, so students can tell the difference between a company that says it sponsors and one that actually has.
What happens to student data?
We will walk you through our data handling and privacy practices on the call, happy to go through the specifics for your institution before you commit to anything.
Do students pay for this themselves?
Self Track is free for individual students. College Partnership billing is per student, per year, and we will go through the structure that works for your institution on the call.
How long does setup actually take?
Choosing your industry tags and getting dashboard access is the bulk of it, most colleges are live within two weeks. There is no IT project required on your end.
What if our students are studying a field NextJobStep does not cover yet?
Tell us on the call. We will talk through how an uncovered field or tag would be handled for your student body.
What does the 60 day pilot actually commit us to?
Nothing. No setup fee and no long term contract are attached to the pilot period, it is a genuine trial on your own cohort before any decision.
Reach out about a partnership
Email us directly at partnership@nextjobstep.com. We are offering our subscription at an attractive price for colleges partnering with us now. Book a slot to discuss the details, and we will take it from there.
Book a slot nowSee your own cohort data before your next intake cycle
No commitment required to have this conversation. We will walk you through exactly what your students would see, whatever course they are on, and answer anything above in more depth.