How #irishbizparty power bursts works
1. Each week, we will have our chosen business – the schedule is at the bottom of this page, where the whole concept is explained in full, I hope. 2. On their allotted time, the chosen business will tweet out some information about themselves. Name, location, what they do. It may take a few tweets to […]
Your insightful questioning can produce better answers
Interviews are not just about candidates answering questions – they are about candidates asking questions too. Every juncture in an interview is an opportunity to show how your skills, attributes and characteristics meet the employer’s needs. It is a point we have mentioned here before and we cannot stress it often enough. Ergo, you should […]
Feeding back the question in your answer
One of the approaches we recommend in interview training involves encouraging the candidate to feed back the very language they hear in the question. So if the interviewer says: “We are looking for someone with excellent IT skills for this role, someone who can work their way around IT problems as they arise. How would […]
Tips to improve your CV
By Angela Tjalsma, CV Editor, Sli Nua Careers (Ballinrobe) With competition becoming more and more intense – not just for securing employment, but even getting called to interview – it is critical to have a first-rate CV. This document is the first point of contact the potential employer has with you: for this reason it […]
Two roads diverged in a wood…
Robert Frost might not have been speaking figuratively about career direction, but for this exercise we can use his celebrated poem as a backdrop for considering career action plans. Many people these days are facing numerous career roads, either by choice or by obligation. A career action plan does not have to be an intricate […]
Cutting back on interview information overload
The majority of us have been there: it’s the run up to the Leaving Cert and you’re too afraid to sneeze in case a quote from Peig or a highlighted passage from Soundings escapes. A complete information overload, and if you left things till last minute this information overload was administered in a matter of […]
Navigating the interview gauntlet
Navigating the interview gauntlet Are you willing to go where the company sends you? This question may seem to be the proverbial ‘spanner in the works’. However, step back and think about what exactly the prospective employer is asking you? Some of us think we are not allowed to question the interviewer. This is an […]
Forward view will reduce past pain
Q: My last job finished prematurely. I left before I was pushed. My face no longer fit. Once upon a time, I was invited to take part in decision making, included in all management chit-chat trips to the canteen to discuss things, and sounded out about possible business developments, innovations and initiatives. Slowly but surely, […]
Questions to put teacher on the spot
With all the movement in the primary school teaching sector at the moment, it might be an opportune time to talk about typical questions that primary school teachers may be asked in a job interview. Some of these are common to other sectors too, so, even if you’re not a primary school teacher, you might […]
Claiming the right to sell yourself to people you know
Q: Next week I’m going for a job where I’m being interviewed by three people I know very well. I work with all three, and in fact one of them is a previous boss of mine. All four of us work in the same company and sometimes socialise together. My fear is I will not […]