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.
Audio: Three key pointers when going for promotion in your own school
You’re going for a job in your own school – perhaps hoping to step up from teacher to deputy principal, or from deputy principal to principal. The fact it’s your own school can complicate matters a little. In the audio below, Liam Horan, MD, Sli Nua Careers Ltd, talks about three crucial points you must bear in […]
Learning the lessons from teaching job hunt
Pic source www.pixabay.com By Deirdre May, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers (Limerick) Q: I qualified as a primary school teacher last year. I’ve spent the last few months sending out CVs, but to no avail. Some of my friends are saying I should call into schools, rather than sending on CVs, but I think that […]
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 show my creative side in my Curriculum Vitae
Q: When it comes to writing, I’m not exactly a straight-down-the-middle type of person. In school and college, technical essays scared me whereas I loved the ‘lá brea samhraidh a bhi ann…’ ones where I was required to dream up a madcap story that resulted in everyone living unhappily ever after. Maybe my fondness for […]
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 […]
Company have asked me to “talk to myself”, our weekly column from various Irish newspapers
Q: Help! I’ve been called to a first-round interview – but it’s a video interview. I have to sit in front of my webcam, press the button, and start answering questions that will be served up as written text on my screen. I’d really like to work for this company, but I can’t get my […]
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 […]