Eight tips to make the Zoom interview work
Q: I’ve a big interview coming up. I’m in at 12.15pm – when I say ‘in’, I mean by Zoom. I haven’t done an online interview before – any tips on how to make the Zoom interview work well? It all seems so un-natural. (DD, email). A: Yes, it doesn’t seem normal, but this scenario […]
Three job interview tips that will stand you in good stead
All that build-up; the worrying if you have done the right preparation; the self-doubt as you contemplate the magnificence of other (often imagined) candidates; the self-consciousness on the day; and then lights, camera, action and it’s all over before you know it. I see interviews as an unreliable primary method of selecting candidates, but, to […]
All the (virtual) way from Spain…our new Erasmus Entrepreneurship programme participant
This week, we welcome Tamara Sánchez as a participant on the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme. She will spend the next six months working with us remotely in Dublin. Tamara will follow in the footsteps of seven previous interns who have worked with us – Ariadna Mayoral (Spain), Isabel Alvarez Seron (Spain), Vasjan Broka (Albania), […]
New doors will open – but are we ready?
What exactly is coming next? I haven’t a breeze, writes Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers. An economic downturn, yes, but one like no other. Temporary Government payments have us in a holding pattern. There’s nowhere to run anyway. The escape doors of old – the UK, the USA and Australia – are shut. […]
Getting up to speed on LinkedIn
Q: LinkedIn – I don’t know what to make of it. I’m told that I need to be on there, and I am, but just about. I have a profile that I haven’t kept updated and I never put up a post. Now and then, I might comment on a post, but that’s the height […]
Online or face-to-face – it’s the same challenge ultimately
Q: I have an unusual situation unfolding at the moment. I am going for a job in a semi-state organisation, and the first interview took place online via Zoom. I have now been called to the second interview. However, they have decided to hold this one face to face in their offices in late June. […]
How to zoom at your own pace
Q: The whole world is on, about to go on, or just after coming off, a Zoom call. I am far from comfortable on it and that makes me feel inadequate. My company has just announced daily group Zoom calls, as if once a week weren’t bad enough. How can I get over my fears? […]
Ten tips for job-seekers during and after COVID-19
The sad reality is that many people will be severely discommoded by the implications of COVID-19. If you are one of those looking for a new job – or sector – here are some pointers to contemplate as you start out on that road, writes Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers. Remember, you only […]
CV lingers on – but it’s not the full story
Hear ye, hear ye, the CV is still not dead. It’s a struggling business that somehow stays afloat despite long-running forecasts of its imminent closure. Every woman in a suit is rumoured to be the sheriff: a strange car in the car surely carries the Repo Man. And yet it lumbers on, writes Liam Horan, […]
Should I put career change on hold?
Q: I was planning a career change. Well, when I say ‘planning’, it was more ‘thinking about it’ than anything else. I had a general idea that I would not be in my current field by the end of 2021, and I was starting to look around at options, courses and so on. Now I […]