Interview Skills……Interviewing is an art, not just a skill! Most interviewing career advice focuses on how to answer specific questions, but the best career advice will tell you that the actual interview is just one small part of the experience. Here are some top Interview Skills tips that will help you prepare for the experience. […]
Post Graduate – Growth Sectors Post Graduate and Growth Sectors: According to the Head of Careers at DIT the six major industry growth areas in Ireland include ICT, Accounting and Auditing, Innovation and Intellectual Property Related Enterprises, Green Sector Jobs, Business Services and Medical/Health. Companies within these sectors all need to be profitable, strategically […]
Post Grad Courses?? Apart from starting employment, the other main option open to you when you finish your degree is to go on to do a post grad course. But you must first research and question the post grad courses available to you. You will usually need a good honours degree (2:1 or above) […]
Postgraduate Courses – Best Course for me?? Ireland has the largest level of adults aged between 30 and 34 with tertiary level qualifications, 49% of this cohort have completed a postgraduate courses of sorts in 2011 according to an EU education report. In fact, according to a CSO report in late 2011 the number of […]
What kind of personality/traits does one need to study a language? I don’t buy this argument. It is not down to personality it’s down to environment. If two languages are spoken in a household the offspring will most likely pick up both languages. Most learning is from our developing years, our youth. The issue […]
Careers Advice and Languages Careers Advice: Why is it important to study languages nowadays? What are the benefits of doing so? There were almost 11,000 jobs created by foreign companies in Ireland in 2010 and that figures has certainly risen over the past five years. Mainly due to our countries continued almost zero […]
Changing Careers – Funding Career Change & Others Changing Careers – People always ask me if I have any career change grants advice and trying to fund change in general terms. Yes, it can be expensive, but you have to think about the return on investment once you graduate. You have the option to spread […]
Career Change Advice…..If you decide to upskill and you are looking for career change advice, how do you decide what course would suit you best? Let’s see if we can help……. Career Change Advice and Course Choice Course choice is extremely important. Almost one in four students are dropping out of third level […]
Spotlight on Changing Career Deciding to change careers is always a risk. In today’s economic climate however, the idea of changing career can seem positively frightening. The best career advice is impartial and objective, but since you’re a real live human being with lots of feelings, it will be important to know a few key […]
Career Advice – The Post Grad Option Throughout the Celtic Tiger era pre 2007 the number of graduate employment opportunities soared, an awful lot of graduates bypassed the Post Graduate option for the obvious financial logic of a regular good income, valuable experience with a Blue Chip company and an opportunity to pay off student […]
