Our CV and Interview Training talk at GMIT Careers Fair
On Monday, October 6th, 2014, we will present on CV and Interview preparation at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology Careers Fair, Galway. Our talk is at 1pm. We will also be exhibiting throughout the fair which runs from 12noon to 3pm. Do drop along to say hello and to get your free career resource pack. Want […]
Job-seekers attend Tuam career day in large numbers
We were in the Corralea Court Hotel, Tuam, Co. Galway, for the ‘Make the Link’ training and information workshop hosted by Galway Rural Development Co. Ltd. This is the first in a series of workshops around Co. Galway which seeks to help job-seekers with the following questions: What are the benefits of back to work […]
We’re on TG4
By Liam Horan, Sli Nua Careers Our Dublin North Career Coach Mark McDonald will appear on a special TG4 programme on redundancy on Monday next, October 6th, at (8.00pm). Mark offers tips on what people who find themselves facing redundancy can do to keep their morale up while they look for their next position.
Is it down to luck or hard work?
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, Galway I spoke to somebody recently who had just been offered a job following a two-stage interview process. This person felt that he was lucky to be offered the job based on what he knew to be the level of competition for that particular vacancy. I don’t […]
Good luck to our own star pupils!
Over the summer months, we were privileged to work with a large number of teachers and others in the education sphere. Without breaching confidentiality, I can reveal we worked with deputy principals going for principal positions, teachers going for deputy principal positions, teachers going for principal positions, teachers going for full-time jobs, teachers going for maternity […]
A good start is half the battle
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Galway The opening question is crucial in an interview – and I urge my clients to be totally prepared for the one most likely to come up. The question might be framed as ‘tell us about yourself’ or ‘talk us through your experience to date’. Our client […]
Be relevant, or be gone
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, Galway Mary goes into job interviews and, over the course of 45 minutes, proceeds to bore, confuse and, ultimately, exasperate the interview panel. Why? It’s because of her insistence on portraying her career in chronological fashion. She starts at the start and woe betide the person who […]
How to handle an interviewer who goes off-topic
Q: One guy on the interview panel wanted to talk about rugby the whole way through – like myself, he played the game in his youth. It was in the middle of Six Nations fever. I humoured him as best I could, but found it quite distracting, and felt I was prevented from getting to […]
Three tips to transform your job interviews
By Patricia Maloney, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers, Galway 1. Start from the right place Typically, people prepare for interviews by looking inwards. They mine their career history for what they believe to be ‘good stuff’. But what is good stuff and who defines it? Answer: the employer defines it – and they have already […]
AUDIO: Liam Horan speaks ‘with’ Galway Bay FM about how to make a career change work for you
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Liam Horan, Sli Nua Careers, talks on Galway Bay FM about career change – and how you can make it work for you At Sli Nua Careers, we have a range of coaches with experience of helping individuals through the often rocky road of career change. […]