Dublin's apprenticeships now go well beyond the building trades.
A psychometric assessment matching your working style and strengths against every SOLAS-registered apprenticeship nationwide — including the newer routes into finance, tech and biopharma that Dublin now runs alongside the traditional trades.
Most students can only name three or four apprenticeships
Dublin is where most of the country's newest apprenticeships are actually launching: the Central Bank's International Financial Services Apprenticeship, FIT's Software Development Associate Apprenticeship, and TU Dublin's new Bio Process/Chemical Process Technician apprenticeship with BioPharmaChem Ireland are all real, paid, earn-while-you-learn routes that don't run through the CAO at all.
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 Dublin 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.
“I liked that CourseCompass looked beyond just CAO points. The questions covered interests, preferences and other areas that helped build a more complete picture. It gave my daughter some options to research that we probably wouldn't have thought about ourselves.”
“I honestly wasn't sure what I wanted to do after the Leaving Cert, so I gave CourseCompass a go. The recommendations were actually a lot more specific than I expected and gave me a few courses I hadn't really considered before. It was useful having everything explained rather than just getting a list of courses.”
“I had a rough idea of the areas I was interested in but had no idea which actual courses suited me. CourseCompass helped connect the different things I was interested in with real courses. I came away with a much clearer idea of what I should be looking into.”
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