Celebrating STEM achievements
MORE than 4,000 young people from over 130 schools have attended Northern Ireland’s largest science fair. At the Sentinus Young Innovators and Big Bang Fair Northern Ireland, hosted at Ulster University, Jordanstown, students showcased their science projects solving real world problems and competed for a variety of prizes including the chance to represent Northern Ireland...
Gerard McCavanagh
Role: Concierge Company: Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast Track Record: As a hotel concierge Gerard McCavanagh is a man in the know. HOW I BECAME A CONCIERGE Give a brief outline of your career to date. I started my working life as an apprentice barman in Morrison’s Bar in 1996, I then got my first experience in...
Whoop! High fives all round! Take the afternoon off, you guys!
Yes it’s time to celebrate because the Northern Ireland job market hasn’t been in as a good shape for ages, according to the most recent set of stats from those clever bods at NISRA (Northern Ireland Stats are Really Awesome). At least, that’s what the headline numbers want you to believe. The number of people...
Gillian Kerr
Role: Talent Adviser Company: Corvus Recruitment Track Record: What does your job entail? Working as a talent adviser with Corvus is a really varied and rewarding job and no two days are the same. The job entails sourcing talented professionals who are committed to their careers, interviewing, business development, account management, talent branding, creative marketing...
How to prepare for an interview
Congratulations! Who knew you’d get as far as an interview? Not me, that’s for sure. Anyway, you’re here now so you should really make sure you’re properly prepared. You might think you know loads about the company you’re about to interview with, that you’re a dab hand at interviews and, really, you should be sitting...
Placement students making their mark on healthcare
A FEMALE scientist who has been working on the development of a test that diagnoses sepsis is just one of the award-winning students in this year’s university placement scheme with Randox Laboratories. The breakthrough sepsis test is being created by the Randox Molecular Diagnostics team, which Sarah-Louise Morrow from Belfast joined in September. Her innovative...
Camp to develop future IT skills
TWO Northern Ireland companies have joined together with Belfast Metropolitan College (Belfast Met) to offer budding IT engineers the chance to develop their skills. Novosco Cloud Camp, which is organised by Novosco and supported by Almac, will run at Belfast Met’s Titanic Quarter Campus between August 7-11, 2017. Free of charge and open to students over...
How To Get A Graduate Job
Your dissertation has been handed in, your final exams are over and the last few nights of celebration have been a blur of exhaustion, emotion and booze. All that’s left to do is throw your mortarboard in the air on graduation day and get a job. Ah. Real life hits like Carl Frampton in the...
Core Systems is Breaking the Glass Ceiling in the Technology Market
A locally-owned software development company which specialises in solutions for those in the criminal justice system, Core Systems (NI) Limited is bucking the trend in the IT industry. Considered a male-dominated sector, Core Systems’ not only has a female CEO, Patricia O’Hagan MBE, but it has female employees in each sector of the business –...
Risk assessment training
SOUTH Eastern Regional College (SERC) has created a specialist training partnership with CITB NI to deliver a brand new virtual environment risk assessment training programme. The course entitled, A Beginners Guide to Risk Assessment has been devised to combine the theory behind why risk assessments are necessary and to help businesses understand the basic processes...