Our stand at Claremorris Career Event 2017
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD visited our stand at the recent Career Cvent held in the McWilliam Park hotel, Claremorris. It was great to see so many young students at the event. Looking forward to next year already – the event has been confirmed for Saturday, January 20, in the McWilliam Park hotel. More on […]
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 […]
Mid West Radio February 23rd 2017
Liam Horan and Isabel Alvarez Seron, Sli Nua Careers, speak to Tommy Marren of Mid West Radio about the Claremorris Career Event being organised by the GAA in Mayo on Saturday, February 26, 2017.
Claremorris Career Event 2017 in conjunction with the GAA in Mayo
The Claremorris Career Event, organised by the GAA in Mayo, will take place in the McWilliam Park Hotel, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, on Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 11am to 2pm. This is a fantastic opportunity for senior cycle and pre-senior cycle students, and their families, to getwith their career choices for the future. Our MD Liam […]
Employers using Skype interviews to hire new staff
Half of employers have speeded up the time it takes to recruit staff because they want to hire workers more quickly, a study shows, according to a report in the Irish Independent. Read more HERE We offer one-to-one Interview Training HERE and Mock Interviews HERE over Skype. You can see a structure of our Skype Interview […]
How long should my speech be?
By Liam Horan, Public Speaking & Presentations Trainer, Sli Nua Careers Q: I’ve been asked to address a conference on behalf of my company – it’s a company promotional event and will be attended a lot of existing and potential customers, as well as some media figures who report on our sector. My topic is […]
Public Speaking & Presentations Masterclass (open) programme
Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, was a guest on Aidan Crowley’s Grapevine show on CRC-fm on Thursday, November 3, to discuss our Public Speaking & Presentations Masterclass (Open) programme. “For so many people, public speaking is one of the biggest fears of all – our programme shows how you can really excel at speeches and […]
Free IT training in Co. Mayo – up with this kind of thing
Yes, the heading doesn’t mislead – and up with this kind of thing, we say. Geraldine O’Hare is Skills for Work Co-ordinator (West Region) for the Mayo Sligo Leitrim Education and Training Board and she called into our office this week to tell us about free IT training they are offering at the moment. They […]
Five common interview mistakes that undermine even great candidates
Just because you know you’re great doesn’t mean you’re home and dry. You’ve got to convince the interview panel too, writes Arthur Geraghty, Career Coach at Sli Nua Careers. Interviews are not a perfect way of selecting candidates – and, indeed, many employers deploy a variety of other selection tool to complement interviews – but […]
U21 wins were great career moves in ’83 and ’06 – hopefully same in ’16
Forgive us our shameless parochialism here – all Gaelic football is local, as you know. On our window today we have a framed photo of a jersey with all the autographs of the 1983 Mayo u21 team on the border. That Mayo team won the All-Ireland title in 1983. It proved to be a great career […]