CV lingers on – but it’s not the full story
Hear ye, hear ye, the CV is still not dead. It’s a struggling business that somehow stays afloat despite long-running forecasts of its imminent closure. Every woman in a suit is rumoured to be the sheriff: a strange car in the car surely carries the Repo Man. And yet it lumbers on, writes Liam Horan, […]
WEBINAR “Tips for a New Era of Interviewing: A View from Both Sides”
Presented by Nicola Walsh and Collins McNicholas – Recruitment and HR Services Group. Held by Galway Chamber. Listen and/or watch HERE Make a booking HERE for CV Preparation, Application Form Writing, Interview Training and Mock Interviews.
WEBINAR “Personal Branding for Job-seekers in a Changing World”
This webinar offers practical tips to candidates getting ready to succeed in the new world of work after the coronavirus pandemic is over (CVs, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles). Presented by Liam Horan (SliNuaCareers.com) and Ines Gonzalez (LetsWork.today), Career Coach, Mentor and Trainer in areas of job seeking, communication and public speaking. Held by Galway Chamber. Please […]
How to get ready for the job-searching surge
There is a real bang of back-to-the-future about the current phase through which we are living – staggeringly high unemployment rates and deep fears about the future coupled with the public health issues caused by Covid-19, writes Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers. In the last few years, after a horrendous start to the […]
Coronavirus – we have moved fully online
We are now conducting all our business online. If you have made a booking with us, we will update you with alternative online arrangements. We have vast experience of working online and will help you to ensure you can avail of our services in this way. It’s quite simple. Read more info HERE, we will […]
Play the game to advance your career
Q: I play sport at a high level for a high-profile team. It requires huge commitment and, if I’m being honest, an odd evening when I need to leave work early to get to training or matches. I’m about to graduate with a masters and I am afraid my sports will go against me as […]
Cutting through the verbiage of wordy job specs
Inspired/deflated by one particularly wordy job specification I recently had to prise open with a crowbar for a client, I posted the following on LinkedIn: “Is it just me, or have job specs gone completely doolally lately? It seems like they are getting longer and longer and longer and longer by the minute, and the […]
How to get to the heart of job spec
Q: The job spec goes on for miles – 840 words and 22 bullet points. I don’t even know where to start. A lot of it is waffle in my opinion but I have read what you have written consistently about meeting the job spec with your CV. In this case they’re looking for a […]
Forbidding form the only option
Q: I’m about to get stuck into a huge application form for a job in a local authority. I feel like just sending in my CV instead and seeing how that goes. What do you think? Are they likely to be strict about using their standard application forms? I feel that my CV sells me better. (CD, email). A: In […]
It’s what you learned, not just what you did
Q: I’ve never had a CV before – and I’m 37. Every job I’ve got over the past 20 years has been by word of mouth – I spent ten years in construction in London and was never out of work. But now I’m applying for a job in a semi-state body and they want […]