Category: Interviews, Promotion & Selection
How to Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile for Recruiters (in Ireland)
26th March 2025
Stand out to Irish recruiters with a LinkedIn profile that shows your value — not just your job title. You’ve polished your CV. You’ve sent off applications. You’ve even clicked “Easy Apply.”But if your LinkedIn profile doesn’t back up your experience — or worse, barely exists — you could be missing out on opportunities without […]
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Tips for Senior Management Interviews
30th October 2024
Navigating the landscape of senior management interviews can be both thrilling and challenging. With over 20 years of experience in HR, including my role as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Apple, I’ve had the privilege of helping countless candidates successfully prepare for these pivotal moments in their leadership careers in the public and private sector. […]
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Maximising Your Time During Redundancy: Tips for Staying Productive and Focused
7th April 2023
Redundancy, layoff, and losing your job identity, can be difficult and uncertain times, but they can also present an opportunity to reignite your career. Losing a job can be tough, particularly if you have a lot of pressing financial responsibilities but there are lots of things you can do to make the most of this […]
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
27th March 2020
Job hunting or effectively managing your career can be really tough at the best of times but during a pandemic where do you start? What can you do when restrictions and the impact on industries are changing daily. The Government is offering some support but this will have varying degrees of relief depending on your […]
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Looking for a Dream Job? – Network Your Way There
10th January 2020
How do you look for a dream job? Is your first thought to jump online to find it, only to become increasing despondent as you glaze over job ads that do not fit in with your dream? Or do you haphazardly check the organisation you would prefer to work for to see if they are hiring, […]
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How to Overcome Your Fear of Interviews
20th June 2018
As a Career Coach, one of the first things I hear when I run one-to-one interview skills training is ‘I hate selling myself, I’m just no good at interviews, I’m dreading this’. It is perfectly understandable why we fear interviews as many of us resist with every inch of our bodies speaking highly about ourselves. […]
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Perception In The Workplace
15th November 2016
Perception is in the eye of the beholder. For example, how Donald Trump is viewed in the workplace is reflective of one’s own past experiences, values, and belief systems. Some of those who voted against Donald Trump, for example, may use words such as narcissistic, chauvinist, racist, and bully to describe him. On the other […]
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5 Helpful Career Management Tips That Will Excel Your Career
1st July 2016
The world of work has changed forever. No matter how successfully the company we work for is performing we can’t rely on job security, outside of the public sector, no job is guaranteed for life. We, therefore, need to become experts in our own career management. So how can you effectively manage your career? Here are some career management tips […]
Continue reading »Benefits of using Social Media for Job Hunting
2nd February 2015
How can Social Media help you find work? Much is known about LinkedIn but what about the other tools like Twitter and Facebook? Some of the benefits of using Social Media to find work are: It offers you visibility. If an employer or recruiter searches for you, what do they find and more importantly, what do […]
Continue reading »How to Write a Good CV?
1st May 2014
Writing a CV used to be such a frustrating experience, until I became a recruiter. I found it really difficult to communicate clearly what it was I had done. Each line of the CV seemed to take me 20 minutes to write. My CV felt more like a scary factual timeline. I thought more about […]
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