Author: Liam

All you have to do is listen

By Mick O’Connor, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Athlone Listen to the question. You’d be surprised how many candidates fail to listen to the question. They half-listen. They listen to the question they think has been asked. Perhaps they even listen to the question they hope has been asked. The tendency to answer the wrong […]

Make the most of LinkedIn groups by implementing these tips

By Ashley Cahillane, LinkedIn expert, Sli Nua Careers Developing an effective strategy to negotiate the LinkedIn groups feature will boost your stock in your industry. The feature provides users with a platform to showcase their skills, seek out guidance from their peers and open a gate for job opportunities – all while expanding on their […]

Be relevant, or be gone

By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, Galway Mary goes into job interviews and, over the course of 45 minutes, proceeds to bore, confuse and, ultimately, exasperate the interview panel. Why? It’s because of her insistence on portraying her career in chronological fashion. She starts at the start and woe betide the person who […]

Four tips on how to use LinkedIn to catch attention of potential employers

By Ashley Cahillane, LinkedIn expert, Sli Nua Careers Give off a professional appearance by customising your LinkedIn URL. The added benefit of this is you will become easier to find and the neater URL will be easily distinguishable on a CV or Business Card. Find out more about the feature here – and be quick […]

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 […]