The Letterkenny Apprenticeship Academy is new — most students in Donegal haven't clocked it yet.
A psychometric assessment matching your working style and strengths against every SOLAS-registered apprenticeship nationwide — including the new Metal Fabrication and Refrigeration & Air Conditioning routes opening right in Letterkenny.
Most students can only name three or four apprenticeships
Donegal ETB, ATU and SOLAS are building Ireland's first shared ETB/TU apprenticeship campus in Letterkenny, with capacity for over 200 apprentices a year. That's on top of the existing marine apprenticeship routes through BIM's National Fisheries College in Greencastle — real, local options most students never see listed side by side.
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 Donegal 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.
“Choosing a college course can be quite overwhelming, especially when there are so many options. I found the CourseCompass results helpful because they gave my son a clearer direction without making the decision for him. It was useful having something personalised to work from.”
“I found the test really easy to get through and it didn't feel like I was just answering the same question over and over. What I liked most was seeing why certain courses were recommended for me. It gave me a much better starting point for researching my CAO choices.”
“As a parent, it can be difficult to know how much to get involved when your child is choosing their CAO courses. CourseCompass gave us something useful to discuss together and helped explain why certain courses might suit them. It was a good starting point for having that conversation.”
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