The Benefits

The benefits to the graduate are invaluable. In the short-term, the position offers a good salary, along with other benefits. But more importantly, the practical experience coupled with the academic back-up of the post-grad diploma leaves the graduate in an unrivalled position for developing a fulfilling, long-term career.

The Graduate Role

• The role itself is a salaried project leadership role within a company, so ideally suited to someone looking for real hands on responsibility.
• There are a variety of roles within companies that hail from diverse sectors and locations across the island.  Approximately 60 positions are advertised each year.
• The roles vary from company to company but the focus is on supporting the company's management team to create and develop technologically innovative and commercially viable products and services - a 'FUSION' project.
• The companies are carefully selected by InterTradeIreland and include some of the leading innovative companies across the island, North and South.
• You are employed directly by the company as the (FUSION) project lead where you will receive mentoring and support from a leading academic on the island, your company supervisor and InterTradeIreland consultant.
• Whilst carrying out your role, you will also undertake a fully funded Postgraduate diploma in Business & Management allowing you to develop valuable additional business skills for both you and the company covering subjects such as Finance, Human Resources, Sales and Project Management.
• The positions are normally for 12 or 18 months with 80% of graduates being offered full time positions within the company.
• You must have a degree or diploma which matches the criteria of the position being advertised by the company as roles do vary.  In some cases, you may be required to have relevant previous experience in the industry.

How did this come about?

InterTradeIreland supported Dundalk based Vennetics through its sales and marketing programme Acumen to help them improve their knowledge of the NI market place and open up new opportunities and customers for them.

More about Banterflix

Banterflix is already a popular movie review show and its founder and chief presenter Jim McClean said; “we wanted to add a new level of movie interaction to our website, now our viewers can watch our latest movie reviews online and have direct access to other movies from the same actor or director.” 

Viewers can search by movie title, actor, director, genre and price. For example a search for actor Al Pacino will provide the movies that he has starred in and where his movies can be viewed and a useful price comparison. 

“The team at Vennetics is delighted to be working with Jim and the team at Banterflix,” said Kieran Dalton, Chairman of Vennetics. “This partnership reflects our desire to collaborate with companies that share our vision, and underscores our commitment of delivering relevant and exciting video based solutions.”  Dalton went on to say; “We’re very grateful to InterTradeIreland for their assistance with this project. InterTradeIreland supported Vennetics through its sales and marketing programme with funding which helped us to improve our knowledge of the Northern Ireland market and ultimately identify new business opportunities.” 

Welcoming the announcement InterTradeIreland’s CEO, Thomas Hunter McGowan said; “InterTradeIreland has enjoyed working with Vennetics over the last few years and indeed they are one of our Business Ambassadors. An exemplar in their field, we are proud to be associated with this exciting phase in their development and wish them every success. The promotion and development of cross-border business is our key priority and with cross- border trade a steadily growing area, there is great potential out there for other likeminded SMEs.

Funding currently available

InterTradeireland currently has funding available for sales and marketing supports to eligible companies from Ireland and Northern Ireland. See if you are eligible by clicking on the link here.