Be relevant, or be gone
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, Galway Mary goes into job interviews and, over the course of 45 minutes, proceeds to bore, confuse and, ultimately, exasperate the interview panel. Why? It’s because of her insistence on portraying her career in chronological fashion. She starts at the start and woe betide the person who […]
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 […]
How to handle an interviewer who goes off-topic
Q: One guy on the interview panel wanted to talk about rugby the whole way through – like myself, he played the game in his youth. It was in the middle of Six Nations fever. I humoured him as best I could, but found it quite distracting, and felt I was prevented from getting to […]
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 […]
Community Radio Castlebar Interview: March 31st, 2014
Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks to Aidan Crowley of Community Radio Castlebar – a series of career tips interviews that will be broadcast each Monday on CRC-fm at 5.30pm GMT. This week: I’ve just recently joined a new company – just two months ago, in fact. I’m really enjoying it though […]
Louise doesn’t have much work experience to include on her CV
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Tips on selling yourself at weekend’s Canada Jobs Fair, Dublin
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Company have asked me to “talk to myself”, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: Help! I’ve been called to a first-round interview – but it’s a video interview. I have to sit in front of my webcam, press the button, and start answering questions that will be served up as written text on my screen. I’d really like to work for this company, but I can’t get my […]
Three tips to transform your job interviews
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, Galway 1. Start from the right place Typically, people prepare for interviews by looking inwards. They mine their career history for what they believe to be ‘good stuff’. But what is good stuff and who defines it? Answer: the employer defines it – and they have already […]
How you can get a free CV in Athlone this Wednesday
We are looking for someone to take part in a ‘mock’ CV preparation session in Athlone this Wednesday, February 19th – and the person involved will get a free CV for themselves (value €166). All they have to do is be available at 11.15am for approximately one hour. This is a training exercise by Sli […]