Cork's apprenticeship options go well beyond the building site.
A psychometric assessment matching your working style and strengths against every SOLAS-registered apprenticeship in Ireland — relevant well beyond Cork's traditional trades, given how much of the county's economy now runs on biopharma and medtech manufacturing.
Most students can only name three or four apprenticeships
Cork Harbour has one of the highest concentrations of biopharma and medtech manufacturing in the country, and manufacturing and process apprenticeships are a direct, debt-free route into it — alongside the traditional construction, motor and electrical trades most people already know about.
The Apprenticeship Match Test does that work properly: a structured trait profile, scored against the full national register, so the shortlist you get back is based on genuine fit rather than which trade happened to come up in conversation.
Three steps to your apprenticeship shortlist
Build your trait profile
A structured assessment across 12 traits — how you work, solve problems and prefer to learn — building a radar-chart profile rather than a simple yes/no quiz.
Get matched nationwide
Your profile is scored against every SOLAS-registered apprenticeship in the country, not just the handful most students have heard of.
Receive your top 20
A ranked shortlist of your top 20 apprenticeship matches, with AI-generated explanations for your top 5 and direct links to the official SOLAS programme pages.
A real Irish company, not an anonymous website
Career Guidance Cork is powered by CourseCompass, an Irish company that works directly with schools and students on CAO decision-making — not a faceless test generator.
Real reviews, published with permission
These are genuine testimonials from CourseCompass users — see the full reviews page for more.
“As a parent, it can be difficult to know how much to get involved when your child is choosing their CAO courses. CourseCompass gave us something useful to discuss together and helped explain why certain courses might suit them. It was a good starting point for having that conversation.”
“I went into the test without really knowing what I wanted to do. The results gave me a few different options and, more importantly, made me think about what I actually enjoy and what I could see myself doing. It definitely made researching my CAO choices easier.”
“I found the test really easy to get through and it didn't feel like I was just answering the same question over and over. What I liked most was seeing why certain courses were recommended for me. It gave me a much better starting point for researching my CAO choices.”
Get a shortlist built from your working style, not a guess based on the trade you've heard most about.
A psychometric assessment covering a 12-dimension trait profile, matched against every SOLAS-registered apprenticeship nationwide.
- Your top 20 apprenticeship matches from SOLAS's full national register
- A 12-dimension trait profile with a radar chart
- AI-generated match explanations for your top 5
- Direct links to the official programme page for each match