Tips on using LinkedIn to catch attention of potential employers
For many job-seekers, LinkedIn is where it’s at – or, at least, where it should be at. A survey we carried out three years ago showed that 95 per cent of professional recruiters use LinkedIn as one of their key recruitment tools. There is no charge to join LinkedIn. The following tips will help you […]
All you have to do is listen
By Mick O’Connor, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Athlone Listen to the question. You’d be surprised how many candidates fail to listen to the question. They half-listen. They listen to the question they think has been asked. Perhaps they even listen to the question they hope has been asked. The tendency to answer the wrong […]
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 […]
Louise doesn’t have much work experience to include on her CV
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Some CV advice for you here
Are you applying for a GAA internship? Some CV advice for you here listen to ‘Are you applying for a GAA internship? Some CV advice for you here’ on Audioboo
Focused edit can bring CV under control
Q: I can’t keep my CV under two pages. Everything I read suggests it should be maximum two pages. I have had a lot of jobs. I’m afraid to leave any of them out in case I end up mentioning a job in an interview, causing the interviewer to think I am hiding something. Thoughts? […]
Highland Radio
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers talks on Highland Radio, Co. Donegal, about getting your CV right – and also your interview technique. Liam Horan is Managing Director of Sli Nua Careers Ltd. You can read more blogs from Sli Nua Careers coaches HERE, and make a […]
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Shining a new light on your core skills, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: I read everywhere that you need to know your strengths, and that only through knowing them can a candidate highlight them in their CV. It sounds grand and dandy: but I just can’t find the language to express mine. I ran my own business for 20 years. It was very successful and even limped […]
Hobbies can be more than just fun – our weekly column in various Irish newspapers
Q: Are they really interested in my hobbies? I’m involved in my local rugby club – coach an under-age team, do some fund-raising and chairman of the committee that built the new clubhouse. I had it on my CV but I took it off again because I thought it looked irrelevant. Was I right? (DT, […]