Who We Are
YOUR GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF VIRTUAL INTERNSHIPS, ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TRAINING AND MORE
We offer you a unique experience to help prepare for your future. Modern language skills are important in nearly every kind of work, and we will help you prepare for the future, whatever you are interested in doing.
What We Do
HIGH-QUALITY, VIRTUAL TRAINING
We work with employers of all sizes and sectors to bring you an experience that contributes to your success. You won't simply be performing tasks to fill your time, you will be making a real contribution to a business or organisation that needs your skills.
Kathy O'Dwyer
Founder and Director
Kathy O'Dwyer and her dedicated team have been forming partnerships with local families and businesses, as well as managing trainee experiences for many years.
Kathy has been interested in training in development from the start of her career. After spending five years as a career and employment officer in London, Kathy returned to Ireland and worked on a variety of projects that focused on women and youth unemployment. Soon, she decided to become an entrepreneur and founded the company in 2010.
Over the years, Kathy's business has grown rapidly and her team has provided trainees from all over the world with a great experience and our local partners with the extra help they need. The business has focused on being lean and sustainable, the its network of partners and stakeholders in the community have grown. Feedback from trainees has been consistently positive and enthusiastic.
Kathy has been honoured to be recognised by the All-Ireland Business Foundation, as well as to be nominated for several prestigious awards, including most recently the Cork Business Association's Cork Business of the Year 2020: Best in Professional Business Services.
After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies from Munster Technological University, Sinéad spent the next four years living in Melbourne, Australia while traveling in both Asia and South America. On her return to Ireland, Sinéad began a career on the ESL sector where she continued to travel the world as a Marketing & Business Development Executive attending ALPHE, ICEF and Quality English conferences.
After joining the Career Training Internships team, Sinéad began harnessing the organisations existing relationships and forging new relationships with public & private sector partners across Europe who send individuals and groups to Ireland for mobilities and English classes. Sinéad along with the rest of the CTI team managed the trainees’ experiences when they arrived in Ireland by coordinating their orientation, internships, host family accommodation, social & cultural activities, airport transfers, public transport and so on.
With the recent pivot of the business from Career Training Internships to Virtual CTI, which was launched in reaction to the pandemic, all of time that Sinéad and the team had spent coordinating on-site projects has now been funnelled into creating an immersive virtual career training experience that is now available for trainees from all over the world.
Sinéad Morrissey
Programme Manager
I am a freelance graphic/UX designer. Career Training Internship is exactly what I needed because I had decided during the heat of the covid-19 pandemic, to make a career out of my self-taught creative skills in design. I needed an internship to be able to learn on the job and grow my career, then I found CTI, and they helped make my dream a reality. Most companies in my country need you to have a number of projects before taking you on as an intern, but CTI obviously is a platform where I can get involved in projects and they are real.
Paul
Intern from Nigeria
Why Us
Irish Internships
Invest in Your Future
We deliver language training, work experience, and vocational programs to international students.
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