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Graduating into a pandemic can be daunting. But two students turned it into a business opportunity

Many college students have had their post-graduation plans completely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. For one entrepreneurial pair, however, the uncertainty created an opportunity to start their own internship matchmaking business...

Business students turn matchmaker to help pandemic-hit SMEs

Universities and business schools often foster friendships. Sometimes these relationships bear fruit for the benefit of others. Recent Trinity Business School graduates Paddy Ryder and Rob Muldowney saw such an opportunity during the pandemic...

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Could your business benefit from matching with a ‘Covid intern’?

It’s obvious that Covid-19 has impacted working life in many ways, from forcing us to work from home to pay cuts and job losses. But how have the past few months played out for students hoping to get some work experience?...

Pandemic internships: ‘It’s not your typical student job in a fast food outlet

Like many young people, Trinity College Dublin business school graduates Paddy Ryder and Rob Muldowney had their post-graduation plans turned upside down by the pandemic. The extent of the disruption began to dawn on them this time last year when the job interviews and internships they had applied for were cancelled...

40 Social Impact Student Entrepreneurs Selected for Fall LaunchPad Fellowship

Today’s college students are more engaged in social issues than any generation before them. And their passion for social issues is spilling over into their professional and career choices - including entrepreneurship. More and more, burgeoning student entrepreneurs are demonstrating that they care...

Irish Platform Setup To Help Struggling SMES Hit By Pandemic

The lads saw that businesses and young people were negatively impacted by COVID-19 so they wanted to create a platform to mutually benefit both groups, this would involve young people receiving currently rare professional opportunities while businesses avail of skilled volunteer assistance in this tough period...

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That Great Business Show - Episode 19

71.00" We don't just tell you how to make your business brilliant online, we also find you the talent to make the magic happen for you. Rob Muldowney is co-founder of Covid-Interns, five college graduates who have an unending supply of smart talent across all disciplines, (though the biggest pickup is for marketeers) - students and graduates that want to add experience to their CVs during lockdown and who are willing to offer their services at the right price. They had 400 new people sign up to their database, some coming from the UK, since the start of the year and they've placed candidates as far afield as New York and Singapore, though the vast bulk are working remotely for Irish firms. A great source of talent...

Digitise or Die - Andrew Kilgallen (Covid Interns)

Covid Interns has helped successfully partner 150 students and businesses in roles spanning from New York to Singapore, in areas equally as diverse, from digital marketing, to software engineering, to finance and NGO roles. With all 6 members of the team engaged in either full-time employment or education, they spend their evenings and weekends seeking to improve the employment opportunities available to recent graduates and students, as well as offering a helping hand to Irish SMEs as they look to adapt to a business trading environment which has been upended by the pandemic...

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