Return to college helps professionals find employment

A RANGE of courses for unemployed professionals is already yielding work for students who returned to study at Cork Institute of Technology.

Mary Flynn from Fermoy was one of 74 graduates of the college’s Labour Market Activation (LMA) courses who received their parchments at CIT’s National Maritime College of Ireland in Ringaskiddy yesterday.

After returning from travels in South America two years ago, the 2003 civil and environmental engineering graduate was unable to find work in an economic landscape utterly changed from the one she had left just eight months earlier.