Interview questions – turning negatives into positives
Pic source www.pixabay.com interview questions By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers While interviews can include a predictable set of questions, there are often those curve balls that will cause you to sweat a little under the collar. With some advance preparation, you can turn those challenging interview questions into opportunities to prove why you […]
Self-employment to employment – where do I start?
Pic source www.pixabay.com self-employment By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Given the lack of job opportunities over the past number of years, many people created a job for themselves in the world of self-employment. However, for one reason or another, you are ready to be an employee again. Here’s how to get the value […]
Graduates, it’s time to get organised
Pic source www.pixabay.com Graduates By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers As you approach the end of your college studies, your focus will naturally be on the final exams,. But if you are planning on applying for graduate placements, you need to get organised, writes SABINA TRENCH, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers. You are in […]
How to ‘get going’ without a college degree
Pic source www.pixabay.com college degree By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Sometimes the assumption is that everyone will go to college and get a degree, but what about young job hunters who want to start their careers without a college degree? There are opportunities out there, and as deadlines and the end of the […]
One job: how to tackle the ‘long service in one job’ question at interview
One job By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers You have been working in the same place for the last 15 years, and you just know it’s going to come up in the interview. You can use this to your advantage. All you need is a strategy writes SABINA TRENCH, Career Coach, Sli Nua […]
Steal a march with your own ePortfolio
ePortfolio By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers When I was in college, the design students lugged their portfolios around in massive satchels draping from their shoulders, writes LIAM HORAN, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers. Steal a march Anyone walking with a hump these days either had a life of hardship […]
12 things to remember when CV writing
CV Writing By Mary O’Brien Killeen Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers It can be the most challenging of tasks, writing your CV. Where to start? What to highlight? How to shorten? How to sell yourself? These 12 pointers will help you get on the right track, and will also assist you in writing your […]
Was he digging in – or testing me out? Job Interview
Job Interview By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I found myself in a tricky position in a job inyerview. The interviewer was certain of a “fact”. I was even more certain that this “fact” was not a fact at all. I worked on the exact project whereas the interviewer […]
Job interview tips to show you will step up from ‘the crew’
Job Interview Tips By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I want the job. Well, maybe not fully, but the reality is if I don’t go for it and get it, you wouldn’t know who they might bring in the door. The big question I will face is how I’m […]
Avoid distraction at all costs in job interview
Job Interview By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Question At the start of the job interview, the chairperson of the interview panel handed me my application form and said “you might wish to refer to it during the interview.” It really threw me. It totally distracted me. Any thoughts? (AC, […]