Creator
Who you are
Based on your survey answers, your skills, personal values, preferred roles and what you value in an employer, you've fallen into the Creator category!
- You're likely an ideas-first thinker who gets genuinely excited by making something that didn't exist before. You probably don't do your best work inside rigid processes. You want room to experiment, iterate, and occasionally go off-script. Passion and enthusiasm are real strengths of yours: once you care about a project, you throw yourself into it properly.
- At university, you probably gravitated to creative societies, publications, design projects or performance that let you make and share something original. You may have built a portfolio alongside your degree, whether that's design work, writing, content, or a personal creative project you kept going in your spare time.
- Professionally, flexible working matters to you more than almost anything else in a job specification. You do your best thinking when you're not clock-watching in an office, and you're drawn to employers who treat creative freedom as a genuine value rather than a perk on a poster, and who'll let you shape the direction of your own work instead of just executing someone else's brief.
Which type of creator are you?
The Story Spinner
“Creative communicators who love telling a story and building relationships around it.”
Your best skills: Creativity | Communication | Negotiation
Roles to consider: Brand manager | Digital Marketing | Graphic designer | Journalist | Marketing, advertising and PR | TV/ film producer | Writer
The Evidence-Backed Creative
“Creative minds back every idea with evidence. They test, measure and refine until the beautiful thing is also the right thing.”
Your best skills: Creativity | Data science & analysis | Attention to detail
Roles to consider: Animator | Architect | TV/ film editor
The Creative Director
“Ambitious creatives who want to lead the vision, not just contribute to it.”
Your best skills: Creativity | Entrepreneurship | Innovation
Roles to consider: Creative arts, media and design | Clothing and textile technologist | Fashion designer | Industrial/ product designer | Packaging technologist | Retail buyer
The Meaningful Maker
“Creative instincts pointed at a cause. They want their work to look good and do real good, not pick one.”
Your best skills: Creativity
Roles to consider: Conservator & restorer | Languages | Museums
The Prototype Wizard
“Equally at home designing and building. They prototype with AI tools rather than waiting for someone else to make the idea real.”
Your best skills: Creativity | Tech skills
Roles to consider: Graphic designer | Software developer | UX designer | Video game designer | Web designer
More advice
Start building a portfolio now, even informally. A simplesite or social presence showing real work will do more for you at application stage than a list of software names on your CV.
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Need more advice? Check out your university’s career service – they’ll have lots of resources to help you with your career plans!
Top employers
The rankings below give you an overview of the top 100 graduate employers in Ireland, as voted for by students and graduates. Using the information we’ve provided for your career type, you can research the top student employers in your sectors/areas of interest.
