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Career Corner with Liam Horan July 28th 2014 offer would be teachers advice
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. QUESTION Q: For applicants seeking a primary school teaching job for the next academic year, what advice can you offer to improve […]
Audio: questions a primary school teacher might be asked
A great deal of our experience and expertise lies in working with primary and secondary school teachers, deputy principals and principals. In these two audios below, Liam Horan of Sli Nua Careers talks about questions teachers might be asked in job interviews, and looks at information they should be transmitting in their answers. As always, […]
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 […]
Sli Nua Careers top tip
In interview, your chances of success hinge not just on your ability to do the job – but on your ability to demonstrate your ability to do the job. The artificiality of the interview environment irks many people. “Why can’t they just let me do the job for a week, and I’ll prove myself,” is […]
Money talk can come later
Q: I’ve gone through the first and second interviews for a job I’d really like to get. On the second day, I expected them to bring up the issue of salary, but they didn’t. I’m not the world’s best negotiator so I didn’t bring it up either. Should I have? And, secondly, how do I […]
Holiday shouldn’t be a deal-breaker
By Mick O’Connor, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Athlone Q: The interview is on June 4. I’m going on a week’s holidays on June 18. I’m afraid it will come against me? Should I tell them during the interview, or say nought for now? (IK, email). A: First off, a good holiday never came against […]
Right tone is crucial with interview acquaintances
By Mick O’Connor, Career Coach, Sli Nua Careers Athlone Q: I’m going for an interview next week, and it’s a bit like going back in time. In what we will call a previous life, I knew two of the five people who will be interviewing me – one in a professional context (we worked in […]
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 […]
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 […]