Are you looking for a skill or trade based career?
WorldSkills Ireland offers a range of exciting industry focused skills, future skills and craft competition opportunities that could be just what your after.
Engineering and Technology
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Welding: Preparing and joining various types of metal using both electrical, and electric/gas processes. |
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Aircraft Maintenance: The skill calls for technical troubleshooting, repairing, and maintenance of all types of aircraft. |
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Automobile Technology: Maintaining light vehicles from various manufacturers, diagnosing complex mechanical problems. |
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Refrigeration and Air Conditioning: The refrigeration and air conditioning engineer is responsible for the design, installation, maintenance, and repair of both systems. |
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Metal Fabrication: Cutting, assembling, and repairing steel structures ranging from buildings to bridges to construction equipment, using a wide range of metals. |
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Heavy Vehicle Technology: Heavy vehicle maintenance technicians must be able to work with internal combustion engines and components. |
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Sheet Metalwork: The Sheet Metalworker’s job involves marking out, cutting, punching and forming/bending patterns on flat sheet metal. |
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Construction Plant Fitting: Construction Plant Fitters are generally employed in the construction and engineering industries. |
Digital, Business and Creative
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Logistics: Logistics is a specialist skill organizing shipments of raw supplies or finished goods from the supplier or manufacturer to the point of distribution or final market place. |
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Cloud Computing: The Cloud Computing industry is responsible for the design and implementation of information technology infrastructure in a public cloud environment. |
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Cyber Security: An Information Security Analyst works to protect an organization’s computer systems networks. |
Health, Hospitality and Lifestyle
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Hairdressing: Cutting, styling, treating, and colouring hair for men, women, and children in a work environment. |
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Beauty Therapy: The beauty therapist offers a head-to-toe experience that improves the client’s quality of life by making them look and feel their best. |
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Cooking: Cooking embraces a wide range of skills from creating menus and preparing dishes for Michelin-starred restaurants. |
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Restaurant Service: Providing food and drink services to guests in hotels and restaurants, showing attentiveness, and understanding of their needs and expectations. |
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Visual Merchandising: Creating eye-catching visual displays for the windows and interiors of shops and department stores, designed to maximize sales. |
Construction and Infrastructure
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Plumbing and Heating: Plumbing and Heating engineers install plumbing and heating systems in a diverse range of projects associated with the construction industry. |
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Electrical Installations: Designing and installing electrical systems in all types of commercial, residential, and industrial projects. |
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Bricklaying: Building homes and commercial projects to the highest standards of safety, accuracy, and skill. |
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Painting and Decorating: The services of the painter and decorator are needed everywhere from homes to public buildings, factories, and offices. |
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Cabinetmaking: Working in wood to create high quality furniture and units, showing skill and an aesthetic understanding of design and finish. |
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Joinery: Working from drawings, the joiner’s task is to measure and cut joints then assemble, install, and finish to a high standard. |
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Carpentry: A carpenter cuts, fits and assembles wood for building frameworks, doors, windows, flooring, stairs and paneling on both commercial and residential projects. |
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