Dealing with ‘skeletons in the wardrobe’ at an interview

By Sean Browne, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Some of us have accumulated the odd ‘skeleton in the wardrobe’ over the course of our careers. Most of these ‘skeletons’ are minor in nature and can be easily explained. However, others can damage your chances of getting that job, particularly if not addressed properly, writes Sean […]

Isabel wins major European award

Isabel Álvarez is one of the EYE Entrepreneur of 2016 Awards in the New Entrepreneurs category. She was selected among six finalists. A well deserved reward as Isabel contribute highly to the local community in Zaragoza, Spain where she offers training and coaching to youngsters. After two years of running her company “Puliendo el Talento”- […]

Ashley Cahillane

Ashley is a PhD researcher in English Literature at National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research, funded by the Galway Doctoral Research scheme, looks at representations of environmental crisis in contemporary literature. Prior to this research, Ashley gained a first-class honours master’s degree in English from Maynooth University. Ashley uses her advanced training in the […]

Keep focused: Remember why you are going for interview

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keep focused Pic source www.pixabay.com By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Q: I recently went for promotion which involved a competency-based interview. I prepared my examples so well for the competency questions that I totally neglected to prepare for questions relating to the job itself. I now feel unable to face the interview process […]

Business Mentoring

Mentoring Our Managing Director is a mentor with BizMentors.ie, and also the Mentee Induction Trainer for BizMentors.ie in Co. Mayo. He has a wealth of business start-up and expansion experience. Call him today on 094 95 42965 or email liam.horan@slinuacareers.com to see if he can help your business at this stage of your evolution – from idea […]

Halfway through my placement in Sli Nua Careers

By Paula Ballester Murat Erasmus Entrepreneurship Programme Participant, 2017/2018  Being an entrepreneur means to be involved in all the steps of the process of creation of your services, from the idea until the analysis of the results. During these two months, I’ve also contributed to an essential part of this business: promoting our services among […]

Navigate the inside line to victory

By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Going for an ‘inside job’ – no, not a bank heist – can be very trying. In fact, I’m sure a bank heist can be trying too, though it’s not a career path we tend to recommend. ‘Inside’, all eyes are on you and […]

GMIT Careers Fair

We are at the GMIT Career Fair (Castlebar campus) today – here we will be assembling our various Facebook Lives from the day.

Missed opportunity: Incomplete college course is not the end of the story

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Missed opportunity Pic source www.pixabay.com By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I didn’t finish my degree because I started working. Now I’m trying to get a new job, and I’m a bit iffy about the fact that I didn’t see out college. Can I skip those years on my CV? (DD, email). […]