I feel my time for change has arrived, our weekly careers column from various Irish newspapers
Q: I am thinking about changing careers – it’s probably a crazy time to consider such a move, but I’m not happy at what I’m doing now (primary school teaching). I enjoy writing, and am a social media addict, and often think about trying to get into marketing or PR. But I wouldn’t know where […]
Making appropriate use of company knowledge
Q: I’m going for interview next week with a company – and I know very little about them. The role is in marketing. I intend to study up on them, but I’m not sure how I should try to weave my newly-acquired knowledge into the interview itself. Any ideas? (LK, email). A: That’s a good […]
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 […]
Skills and experience can help you close the gap
Q: For 17 years, I worked in two jobs: one for nine years, the second for eight. I took the redundancy package just over a year ago, and haven’t worked since. Initially my plan was to take a few months off to recharge the batteries before getting back into the workplace. While I wasn’t complacent […]
Making light of remote locations
Location can have such a powerful impact on careers. If the job requires you to be in a certain place, at a certain time, to do certain tasks, then the fact that you live 70 miles away, and need to drop off the children at school each morning, can so easily rule you out. But […]
Learning the lessons from the interview experience, our weekly column from various newspapers around Ireland
So, you did the interview, and got the verdict from the interview panel, either a Yes or a No. But how did you perform? How did you actually perform? Just because you didn’t get the job doesn’t mean you did a bad interview – there could simply have been a better candidate. Or someone who […]
A top tonsorial artist in action. Hats off, we say.
This particular blog is not dealing strictly with career stuff – but, in a roundabout way, it should have some resonance. As people who established a business during Ireland’s economic downturn, we are always interested to spot other developments in what we will call – with a worrying level of business cliche – the SME […]
Ten questions all job-seekers should ask themselves, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
[checklist] Do you have a good quality CV that summarises and highlights your skills in an effective way? Do you tweak/amend your CV every time you send it out so that it speaks to the employer in question? Do you have a neat and professional Cover Letter that you tweak so that it addresses the […]
Taking time to choose the right career, our weekly column from various newspapers around Ireland
Q: My son is in Transition Year, but he hasn’t a clue what he wants to do after school. He’s mad into sports – plays a lot of rugby – and I also notice he has an interest in property: he’s forever checking out prices of properties, and he watches all of those home makeover […]
Aim higher than the minimum standard
Q: I’m going for a second interview for a position as a social media intern. They want a presentation as well on what I would do if I got the position. They haven’t specified what format they want the presentation in. I was thinking about PowerPoint. I could outline some of my ideas there and […]