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Community Radio Castlebar Career Corner

Each Monday, at 5.30pm, our Managing Director Liam Horan deals with career questions on Career Corner, as part of Aidan Crowley’s Grapevine show on Community Radio Castlebar. You can listen live HERE

How to show my creative side in my Curriculum Vitae

Q: When it comes to writing, I’m not exactly a straight-down-the-middle type of person. In school and college, technical essays scared me whereas I loved the ‘lá brea samhraidh a bhi ann…’ ones where I was required to dream up a madcap story that resulted in everyone living unhappily ever after. Maybe my fondness for […]

Career Corner with Liam Horan @CRC1029fm April 14th 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: Q: I’m going for an interview next week with a man […]

How to handle an interviewer who goes off-topic

Q: One guy on the interview panel wanted to talk about rugby the whole way through – like myself, he played the game in his youth. It was in the middle of Six Nations fever. I humoured him as best I could, but found it quite distracting, and felt I was prevented from getting to […]

Early exit may have hurt my chances

Q: The interview was going fairly well, I felt. I had handled their queries well and had even managed to score some extra points based on the research I had done into the organisation. Sooner than I had anticipated, they asked me if I had any questions for them. I hadn’t, and took this question […]

Community Radio Castlebar Interview: March 31st, 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: I’ve just recently joined a new company – just two months ago, in fact. I’m really enjoying it though […]