Highland Radio
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers talks to Highland Radio about unusual questions and scenarios in job interviews. Liam Horan is Managing Director of Sli Nua Careers Ltd. You can read more blogs from Sli Nua Careers coaches HERE, and make a booking for […]
Castlebar Community Radio
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Liam Horan talks to Tommy Morahan from Castlebar Community Radio. Liam Horan is Managing Director of Sli Nua Careers Ltd. You can read more blogs from Sli Nua Careers coaches HERE, and make a booking for CV Preparation and Interview Training.
Shining a new light on your core skills, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: I read everywhere that you need to know your strengths, and that only through knowing them can a candidate highlight them in their CV. It sounds grand and dandy: but I just can’t find the language to express mine. I ran my own business for 20 years. It was very successful and even limped […]
Skills and experience can help you close the gap
Q: For 17 years, I worked in two jobs: one for nine years, the second for eight. I took the redundancy package just over a year ago, and haven’t worked since. Initially my plan was to take a few months off to recharge the batteries before getting back into the workplace. While I wasn’t complacent […]
Low-key meeting could still open the door, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: I couldn’t make the job interviews on the day they were convened. The company have kindly agreed to meet me on another date next week. However, instead of meeting the interview panel of three people, I will meet just one of them, and, from what I gather, he is the least important of the […]
Making light of remote locations
Location can have such a powerful impact on careers. If the job requires you to be in a certain place, at a certain time, to do certain tasks, then the fact that you live 70 miles away, and need to drop off the children at school each morning, can so easily rule you out. But […]
Learning the lessons from the interview experience, our weekly column from various newspapers around Ireland
So, you did the interview, and got the verdict from the interview panel, either a Yes or a No. But how did you perform? How did you actually perform? Just because you didn’t get the job doesn’t mean you did a bad interview – there could simply have been a better candidate. Or someone who […]
Ten questions all job-seekers should ask themselves, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
[checklist] Do you have a good quality CV that summarises and highlights your skills in an effective way? Do you tweak/amend your CV every time you send it out so that it speaks to the employer in question? Do you have a neat and professional Cover Letter that you tweak so that it addresses the […]
Technical queries put me down
Q: I went to an interview recently and going grand with all the general questions – my attitude, my ambitions, and all of that stuff. But then one of the panel, who had been silent until then, swung into action. He fired five technical questions at me. All five landed like crunching blows to the […]
Media skills can transfer to other roles, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: All of my working life, I have been employed in ‘the media game’ – print journalism, broadcasting and online writing. For the past seven years, I have been in a staff job, but it’s clear the business isn’t going well. Everyone else is talking about moving onto another job within the industry, but I […]