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 […]
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 […]
Tips to improve your CV
By Angela Tjalsma, CV Editor, Sli Nua Careers (Ballinrobe) With competition becoming more and more intense – not just for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Navigating the interview gauntlet
Navigating the interview gauntlet Are you willing to go where the company sends you? This question may seem to be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Opening up some job interview basics
Q: I haven’t ever done a job interview – until now, I have always got jobs by word-of-mouth referrals. However, […]