What is your personal brand?
Today marks the first day of our new biweekly blog from Sinead Sharkey of Generation Women, this week she explores your personal brand and how to get it right. Sinead is the Founder of Generation Women and is a Career and Leadership Coach. She has almost 20 years’ experience of developing leaders in global corporates....
Why you shouldn’t burn your bridges
There comes a time in every employee’s working life when they mull over the process of how they’re going to leave their job. Generally it’s after a particularly bad day when nothing has gone right and everybody is annoying them. Their computer’s crashed and lost all their hard work, the boss has reprimanded them for...
Why uni isn’t always the best route
For some, this week will have included the pat on the back they were expecting after a long, nervous wait over the summer. They’ll have woken up to a set of A Level results which will see them sail on to their chosen university and will spend this weekend celebrating and learning how to cook...
Why an apprenticeship could be your ticket to a new career
There aren’t many boardrooms I’d rave about but if you’re lucky enough to get a chance to visit Harland & Wolff’s then grab it with both hands. It is packed with mahogany furniture of the finest quality including one of the longest boardroom tables every created, models of ships it has made and oil platforms...
Jobcast Week 18
This week we hear about the recruitment crisis in the manufacturing sector, 17 jobs at a Belfast IT firm and five posts in an engineering firm.
Why the manufacturing sector needs YOU!
Another day, another industry crying out for talent. I know what you’re thinking: “he’s going to talk about the IT or the construction industry again”, but no, it’s actually the manufacturing sector (you know, the actual process of making stuff?). Back in the day, Northern Ireland used to be a world leader in manufacturing –...
Why you’ve been able to fight the power, with a nod to Stormont
Trying to come up with a list of positives about our elected representatives at the moment is a bit like trying to think of the best things about going back to work after a fortnight’s holiday. It’s not easy I know, but in the same way the prospect of not having to apply sun cream...
Why our pay packet is small, but mighty
All this chitter chatter about Stephen Nolan’s salary has got us thinking about pay. No, we’re not going to go into the reasons why he gets up to half a million pounds a year, or why Emily Matlis, who presents Newsnight, and Sarah Montague, who is a senior presenter on The Today programme, – two...
Do you want to work outside?
Vitamin D. Did you ever think the essential element which helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body (a description which is quite clearly lifted from a quick search of Google rather than an innate recollection of A Level biology) would influence your job choice? No, neither did I, but then again...
Why financial services are the future
Wouldn’t it be great if you knew which sector was going offer you lots of high paying, stimulating jobs in the future? Deciding what career path to follow would be child’s play if that were the case and you could spend the intervening years upskilling yourself to the eyeballs. We’ve already tried to offer you...