Video can promote the gym room star
By Deirdre May, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers (Limerick) Q: I’ve some part-time work as a gym instructor in a busy gym. I’m getting on well with the members I’m instructing, and I’d really like to get some more hours. I was thinking about putting together some videos of me in action – showing how […]
Old dog can still break from the traps, our weekly column from various newspapers around Ireland
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I’ve been called to interviews. My immediate reaction was to run a mile. I haven’t done an interview since I left school, and that’s not today or yesterday – let’s put it this way, I’ve lived through my fair share of currency changes. […]
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 […]
Early exit may have hurt my chances
Q: The interview was going fairly well, I felt. I had handled their queries well and had even managed to score some extra points based on the research I had done into the organisation. Sooner than I had anticipated, they asked me if I had any questions for them. I hadn’t, and took this question […]
Community Radio Castlebar Interview: March 31st, 2014
Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks to Aidan Crowley of Community Radio Castlebar – a series of career tips interviews that will be broadcast each Monday on CRC-fm at 5.30pm GMT. This week: I’ve just recently joined a new company – just two months ago, in fact. I’m really enjoying it though […]
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 […]
Community Radio Castlebar Interview: February 17th, 2014
Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks to Aidan Crowley of Community Radio Castlebar – this is the second in a series of career tips interviews that will be broadcast each Monday on CRC-fm at 5.30pm GMT. This week: Liam talks about how you can use hobbies and community involvement on your CV, […]
Community Radio Castlebar Interview: February 10th, 2014
Liam Horan, Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks to Aidan Crowley of Community Radio Castlebar – this is the first in a series of career tips interviews that will be broadcast each Monday on CRC-fm at 5.30pm GMT. Community Radio Castlebar has a licence from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to provide a community […]
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? […]