Good luck to our own star pupils!
Over the summer months, we were privileged to work with a large number of teachers and others in the education sphere. Without breaching confidentiality, I can reveal we worked with deputy principals going for principal positions, teachers going for deputy principal positions, teachers going for principal positions, teachers going for full-time jobs, teachers going for maternity […]
Let’s have more ‘I’, please
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers It’s more ‘I’ than ‘we’: this is a point I find myself making to interview training clients on a regular basis. “We put a very good system in place,” they say. Or “we achieved record sales”. In job interviews, it’s important to keep the ‘I’ in there. […]
Seven issues you must resolve in job interviews
At the outset of an interview training session, I write down seven questions and show them to the client. “These questions,” I tell them, “are the issues that you must answer satisfactorily during the interview. They may not be asked by the interview panel in the form of actual questions, but they represent the standard […]
Audio: questions a primary school teacher might be asked
A great deal of our experience and expertise lies in working with primary and secondary school teachers, deputy principals and principals. In these two audios below, Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers talks about questions teachers might be asked in job interviews, and looks at information they should be transmitting in their answers. As always, […]
Audio: Three key pointers when going for promotion in your own school
You’re going for a job in your own school – perhaps hoping to step up from teacher to deputy principal, or from deputy principal to principal. The fact it’s your own school can complicate matters a little. In the audio below, Liam Horan, MD, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks about three crucial points you must bear in […]
AUDIO: Liam Horan on unusual questions and scenarios in job interviews
Pic source www.pixabay.com Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers talks to Highland Radio about unusual questions and scenarios in job interviews. If you would like to make a booking with any of our career coaches, see HERE for CV Preparation, Application Form writing, LinkedIn Profile writing, Interview Training and other career services.
Claremorris career development group receive certs
Congrats to the participants on the Career Development module of the Job Ready programme at Claremorris Family Resource Centre – they are pictured here receiving their certificates on Thursday last. The programme was funded by the Department of Social Protection and South West Mayo Development Company and was co-ordinated by Claremorris Family Resource Centre. More […]
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 […]
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 […]