Job interviews: How to use focused research wisely

Job interviews

Job interviews Pic source www.pixabay.com By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Here are some key points to think about when researching the company? Be sure to know the overall story of the company – where they’ve come from, how their market has changed, how they’ve diversified? Know what the company is specifically focusing on […]

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 […]

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

Missed opportunity

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). […]

Career Event 2018 – in conjunction with Mayo GAA

Senior cycle and pre-senior cycle students, and their families, are invited to attend the second annual Claremorris Career Event 2018, which takes place in the McWilliam Park Hotel, Claremorris, on Saturday, January 20 (11am to 2pm). Last year’s inaugural event attracted a bumper attendance of 500 students and parents. The list of guest speakers will […]

Caught bluffing: Interview test turned the tables against me

Caught bluffing

Caught bluffing Pic source www.pixabay.com By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: In the interview, they asked me to create a table in Excel. I didn’t do very well due to a combination of nervousness and not being quite as accomplished at creating Excel tables as I had claimed on my […]

Self-employment conundrum – Stick or twist

self-employment conundrum

Self-employment conundrum Pic source www.pixabay.com By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I worked for 22 years in the same job – and went out on my own three years ago. Boy, it’s tougher than I expected. I didn’t realise that getting things done would take so long, that customers would […]

Shooting the stars a real buzz in Co. Mayo

By Paula Ballester Murat Erasmus Entrepreneurship Programme Participant, 2017/2018 This week I’m going to talk about another business in which Sli Nua Careers is involved, and where I have been getting some invaluable experience. It’s a streaming TV service that shoots Gaelic football matches here in Co. Mayo – MayoGAATV.com. It started in September and I’ve been […]

Setback: You got knocked down – now get up again

Setback

Setback Pic source www.pixabay.com By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I started a new job six months ago – but I hate it. I feel totally constrained in it: I worked in a very similar role before, but with a different company, and the two companies are like chalk and […]