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 […]
Make the most of LinkedIn groups by implementing these tips
By Ashley Cahillane, LinkedIn expert, Sli Nua Careers Developing an effective strategy to negotiate the LinkedIn groups feature will boost your stock in your industry. The feature provides users with a platform to showcase their skills, seek out guidance from their peers and open a gate for job opportunities – all while expanding on their […]
Four tips on how to use LinkedIn to catch attention of potential employers
By Ashley Cahillane, LinkedIn expert, Sli Nua Careers Give off a professional appearance by customising your LinkedIn URL. The added benefit of this is you will become easier to find and the neater URL will be easily distinguishable on a CV or Business Card. Find out more about the feature here – and be quick […]
CRC Corner – Be Creative in your Job Searching – @crc1925fm 22nd January 2014
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Liam Horan talks to mid-morning presenter Tommy Morahan on CRCfm about creative job-searching methods. Liam Horan is Managing Director of Sli Nua Careers Ltd. You can read more blogs from Sli Nua Careers coaches HERE, and make a booking for CV Preparation and Interview Training.
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 […]
Low-key meeting could still open the door, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: I couldn’t make the job interviews on the day they were convened. The company have kindly agreed to meet me on another date next week. However, instead of meeting the interview panel of three people, I will meet just one of them, and, from what I gather, he is the least important of the […]
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 […]
Self-campaign your way to dream job, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Job-searching is the new frontier, I believe. Think of six graduates coming out of college with the same qualification, more or less, give or take a grade here and there. They all have CVs of broadly similar quality. See all six on the starting-line, waiting for the gun, and then the race begins to see […]
SOS for job-searching campaigns
At Sli Nua Careers, we are currently compiling a list of great/quirky/persistent job-seeking campaigns. Like this one: http://bit.ly/Zukbt6 Or this one: http://bit.ly/Oygy9O If you know of any such campaigns – or, indeed, if you have executed one yourself – please email LIAM HORAN with a pointer in the right direction. We will be publicising these strategies […]
Phantom.ie
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers talk to phantom.ie about job-searching tips. Liam Horan is Managing Director of Sli Nua Careers Ltd. You can read more blogs from Sli Nua Careers coaches HERE, and make a booking for CV Preparation and Interview Training.