Old dog can still break from the traps, our weekly column from various newspapers around Ireland
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I’ve been called to interviews. My immediate reaction was to run a mile. I haven’t done an interview since I left school, and that’s not today or yesterday – let’s put it this way, I’ve lived through my fair share of currency changes. […]
Blind alleys left me out in the cold
Q: I went for a job interview last week. I had myself all prepared to tell them exactly what I felt they needed to hear – my experience, and how that experience relates to their company. The interview panel comprised three people: but, really, it was like just one. He was a compulsive talker – […]
Handling the salary question
By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers We have talked here before about kicking to touch if asked the salary question in the first interview. LD (via email) asks if we have specific phrases she can use if she finds herself facing the salary question. Generally, we discourage the learning of lines, but […]
Bottom-up approach can make CV writing easier
Writing a CV can be a real nuisance. How can I wade through my professional career, studies, voluntary work, additional training, and everything else to produce a two-page document of just 800 words without driving myself doolally? Brevity can be a challenge for most people, which explains why a significant number of the CVs I […]
Seven issues you must resolve in job interviews
At the outset of an interview training session, I write down seven questions and show them to the client. “These questions,” I tell them, “are the issues that you must answer satisfactorily during the interview. They may not be asked by the interview panel in the form of actual questions, but they represent the standard […]
The baby steps to start controlling your career
Last week, you may recall, we had an email from DR. He wrote: “I’ve been doing the same job for the past 25 years – retail sales. I was reared in it and about 15 years ago I inherited the family shop. It’s all I know, and, to be honest, I am very happy doing […]
Career Corner with Liam Horan @CRC1029fm August 18th 2014
Liam Horan, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks to Aidan Crowley of Community Radio Castlebar – a series of career tips interviews that will be broadcast each Monday on CRC-fm at 5.30pm GMT. This week: Here we deal with these issues: QUESTION Q: I couldn’t make the job interviews on the day they were convened. The […]
Vote for us in Best of Mayo Awards 2014
UPDATE, September 11th, 2014: Delighted to have been informed today by Penny Masterson, Mayo Advertiser, that we have been shortlisted for this award. The announcement takes place on Tuesday, September 23. Voting is now closed, but a big thanks to all who took the time to vote for us, it is much appreciated. Congrats to […]
Baby steps to help you through career fog
Q: I’ve been doing the same job for the past 25 years – retail sales. I was reared in it and about 15 years ago I inherited the family shop. It’s all I know, and, to be honest, I am very happy doing it. But it’s fairly obvious my business is going downhill in these […]
Career Corner with Liam Horan @CRC1029fm August 11th 2014
Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks to Aidan Crowley of Community Radio Castlebar – a series of career tips interviews that will be broadcast each Monday on CRC-fm at 5.30pm GMT. This week: Here we deal with these issues: So, you did the interview, and got the verdict from the interview panel, […]