The Future-Ready Award is an employability award that allows you to gain formal recognition and a certificate for the extracurricular experience you gain during your time at Queen’s. This information session will outline the different routes to obtain the award.

Meet the consultant, Joan Connolly: 

Joan Connolly is a Postgraduate Employability and Career Consultant at the Graduate School. Joan is a qualified Careers Consultant with over twenty years of relevant experience in Higher Education. She is also a qualified coach and Myers Briggs Practitioner Step I and II.  In her role, Joan develops and implements employability programmes to enhance students' personal and professional development. Prior to joining Queen’s, Joan worked in human resource management in the private sector, specialising in recruitment and selection.  

Joan is an affiliate member of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service (AGCAS), Association of Higher Education Careers Services (AHECS) and the Association for Coaching (AC).