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LinkedIn tips: tips to optimise your summary

The LinkedIn summary section can be somewhat of a daunting obstacle for its users – especially for those looking to utilise the platform as a job searching tool. Perhaps the most subjective element of the profile structure, when its effectiveness is optimised the user sparks enough interest in the reader to contemplate whether the services […]

Career Corner with Liam Horan @CRC1029fm June 9th 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: Today we can deal with these two issues: QUESTION I’m going for a job interview next week, and, to […]

This week’s top tip

The issue of transferrable skills has arisen on a number of occasions when working with clients recently. “How do I know my transferrable skills?” “How I let an employer know they transfer to a new sector?” The question is generally asked by people who are moving from one sector to another. This can be a […]

Holiday shouldn’t be a deal-breaker

By Mick O’Connor, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Athlone Q: The interview is on June 4. I’m going on a week’s holidays on June 18. I’m afraid it will come against me? Should I tell them during the interview, or say nought for now? (IK, email). A: First off, a good holiday never came against […]

Your actions will help you graduate to next level

Around about now, thousands of students are bursting onto the jobs market. The jobs market can seem a daunting place at the moment. This generation of students have known only negative economic commentary and conditions since their Leaving Cert. days, and many are deflated by it all. But being deflated is not a viable action […]

Career Corner with Liam Horan @CRC1029fm May 23rd 2014

Sli Nua Careers: www.slinuacareers.com, Ballinrobe office 094 95 42965 / Crossmolina office 096 577 70. Our Free Career Resource Pack is available by emailing getthatjob@slinuacareers.com Community Radio Castlebar has a licence from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to provide a community radio service to Castlebar and the surrounding environs and was established in June 1995. […]

Right tone is crucial with interview acquaintances

By Mick O’Connor, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Athlone Q: I’m going for an interview next week, and it’s a bit like going back in time. In what we will call a previous life, I knew two of the five people who will be interviewing me – one in a professional context (we worked in […]

Tips on networking

It has been proven over and over again that word-of-mouth and referrals are two powerful methods of getting jobs. They get you in the door for a day or two first, and it can build from there. They alert you to what we will term the hidden jobs market – the jobs that don’t get […]

Tips on using LinkedIn to catch attention of potential employers

For many job-seekers, LinkedIn is where it’s at – or, at least, where it should be at. A survey we carried out three years ago showed that 95 per cent of professional recruiters use LinkedIn as one of their key recruitment tools. There is no charge to join LinkedIn. The following tips will help you […]