a note for your international office or careers team
You're seeing this page because we'd 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
why now
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's what's 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
what a partnership includes
This isn't a stripped down version of the product. Every student at a partner college gets everything below, from their first day of the course.
Platform access from day one of the course, a feed filtered to the industries your students actually train for, tracking that switches on automatically at graduation, a dedicated subdomain designed around your college, the ability for your careers team to post its own listings and events, and a live outcomes dashboard for your leadership, priced per student, per year.
Paste a link, the pipeline updates automatically through to offer.
LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, IrishJobs, Jobs.ie, GradIreland, aggregated.
Small Irish employers and informal leads, sourced directly by our team.
Question banks built from real student interview experience.
Career days and employer events before they're public.
Real permit data per employer, not a self reported flag.
A CV formatted the way Irish employers expect, without the anxiety.
Flags formatting issues before a student ever submits.
Peer posts and questions alongside the listings, not job hunting alone.
GitHub, Behance, or a personal site travels with every application.
Add your own listings and events straight into the platform.
Engagement and placement data your leadership can act on.
student experience
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.
the terms
Straightforward terms, no procurement process required to get started.
60 days
No setup fee, no long term contract attached to the trial.
Per student
Priced per enrolled student, per year, once you move past the pilot.
Your tags
Choose the industries that match your student body, from day one.
Your subdomain
Students recognise it as yours from the first login.
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Tell us which industries your students train for.
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Filtered, available while they're still studying.
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Automatically, no manual setup per student.
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Ready before your next intake cycle needs it.
how this compares
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.
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
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're live with today, and the list keeps growing with every college we partner with.
beyond the outcomes data
When a prospective student or their family is comparing colleges, this becomes part of the story you tell them directly: your careers team doesn't 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's reputation over time, with prospective students, with their parents, and with the education agents who recommend you. Partnering isn't only about the data itself, it's a public signal that your institution values its students' futures as much as their time in the classroom.
nothing missed
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.
The only real cost is the one you're 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.
questions we hear from colleges
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.
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.
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.
We'll 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.
Self-Track is free for individual students. College Partnership billing is per student, per year, and we'll go through the structure that works for your institution on the call.
Choosing your industry tags and getting dashboard access is the bulk of it, most colleges are live within two weeks. There's no IT project required on your end.
Tell us on the call. We'll talk through how an uncovered field or tag would be handled for your student body.
Nothing. No setup fee and no long term contract are attached to the pilot period, it's a genuine trial on your own cohort before any decision.
Email us directly at partnership@nextjobstep.com. We're offering our subscription at an attractive price for colleges partnering with us now. Book a slot to discuss the details, and we'll take it from there.
Book a slot nowNo commitment required to have this conversation. We'll walk you through exactly what your students would see, whatever course they're on, and answer anything above in more depth.