How to make best use of attending a career fair
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I am attending a career fair next week and really want to know the best way to prepare as this is my first one. I want to be get the most out of it if that I can. I have heard horror stories of people […]
How to handle difficult questions about previous employment
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: I am aware that I should not say anything negative about a former employer in a job interview. However I quit my last job because of disagreements with my boss over certain issues with how things were done within the company. He agreed he was […]
How to have an effective CV despite job gaps
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: How do you build a ‘good CV’, if you have lots of gaps in your work history? I know that before selling yourself face to face in an interview situation, you must first persuade them that you’re a valid candidate. I feel with […]
Five ways you can turbo-boost your job search in 2016
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers For many people, New Year means new career. That can be a little shift to the left or right, or a 180 degree pivot into something completely different. Whichever one you are contemplating, there are certain rules to be observed, as outlined here by […]
The best prepared interview candidate I ever came across
By Liam Horan, Career Coach & Managing Director, Sli Nua Careers Q: Can you talk about the best prepared candidate you ever came across – by this, I mean the candidate who was best prepared for an upcoming interview – (LT, email). A: I like the inclusion of the words ‘prepared’, because I am blue in the […]
Be conscious of your social media image
By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Be conscious of your social media image. It’s a simple mistake to make and one to which many have fallen victim. You create a winning CV that accurately matches your skills and talents to a particular job advertisement. You are called for interview. You present at interview […]
Aptitude tests – wing it and see? Absolutely not
Aptitude Tests by Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers You have moved to the next stage of the recruitment process; the aptitude test. You’ve never done one before, so do you wing it and hope for the best? Absolutely not, writes SABINA TRENCH, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers. Aptitude tests are often used in […]
Think About Your Dream Job Before You Leap – The Sun January 2015
By Liam Horan, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Our article with The Sun Newspaper January 2015. 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.
Four key questions they want answered in #job interviews – even if they don’t ask
By Sabina Trench, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Going for interview, candidates are often far too focused on themselves. To be able to look at it from the other side of the table can be a very liberating and powerful experience. When you begin to realise that the interview panel have a problem too – […]
Statement of interest can be a trump card
By Mary O’Brien-Killeen, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Q: Yesterday I attended for interview for a marketing role and felt I did well. I’m a new graduate and it was my first job interview. This morning, I got an email from the employer thanking me for coming along. She asked me to email her back confirming […]