How to handle difficult questions about previous employment
By Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I am aware that I should not say anything negative about a former employer in a job interview. However, I quit my last job because of disagreements with my boss over certain issues with how things were done within the company. He agreed he was partly […]
Redundancy looming – jump ship or sit tight?
By Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q. I have recently been told I’m going to be made redundant form my job in six months’ time. However, a job has become available in another company close to where I live but the catch is that it has a significantly lower salary. Do I go for […]
Tips on changing a toxic culture
By Mary O’Brien-Killeen, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Q: Last week, you wrote about culture in a company. I work in a company where the culture can only be described as toxic. People are stressed all the time and ready to snap at the drop of a hat. Some key people in the operation are […]
How a company shapes its culture
By Fintan Dunne, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Q: I read and hear a lot about the ‘culture’ of an organisation – but I don’t really know what it means. I run my own business – we have six people employed. It’s a retail business. What is the right culture for us – and how […]
Life’s valuable lessons for the job seeker
By Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I recently read an article on line called ‘Ten tough but valuable lessons you should learn before you are 30’. In my case, the next time I see 30 will be on a front door. I’m 42, and have had my career and business ups and […]
How past mistakes can have future value in job interviews
By Liam Horan, Sli Nua Careers Q: I am going for a job interview with a well-known company next week. A friend of mine works there already and he says there is one question that the manager always asks in interviews: “Tell me about a time when you made a right mess of something in […]
Three views on making a meddling manager redundant in the interview process
By Liam Horan, Sli Nua Careers Q: I am going for a middle management interview with the group business development manager. We don’t really get on, mainly because I disagree with how he goes about his business – to be blunt about it, he’d sell his granny. I want the job, but am not sure […]
Ideas for change can help your case
By Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: At a job interview last week, I was going grand until I got thrown by this question: tell me one thing you would change about your current job? I didn’t know what to say. I am happy enough in my current job – I’m only moving […]
How the next step can lead to the right step
By Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I am going for a job in a progressive company but, to be honest, it’s not really the job I want. It is a step down the ladder from where I would like to be in the same company and I can’t deny that I will […]
Going the extra, extra mile in job-searching
By Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I have been trying to get a job for the last 19 months. And, yes I have really tried: I mean, really, really tried. I have fine tuned my CV. I have gone to networking meetings. I have told friends and all sorts of random acquaintances that […]