Consider career options when choosing your course, says business leader

College and career choices: You may not get the course you want but you may do a postgraduate specialising in the area you want to get into.  Picture: iStock

Leaving Cert students should think about the type of career they would like to have in eight or 10 years and look at the varied career paths a degree course can give them.

That’s the advice from Graham Healy, a partner with Deloitte and a member of the Business Information Systems (BIS) advisory board at University College Cork (UCC).