Sonya McAllister
Role: Company Director Company: We Slim Together Track Record: Sonya McAllister’s background in nursing and the caring profession was the foundation to helping others through her role as a slimming coach. HOW I BECAME A WEIGHT LOSS COACH Give a brief outline of your career to date. I founded We Slim Together in April 2013...
Students show vision during entrepreneurial challenge
BELFAST school pupils have wowed a panel of industry leaders with their smart money-making ideas. The business-focused SKILL! Programme, organised by Visionpath Education, invited 40 young year 10 pupils from Ashfield Girls’ High School and St. Joseph’s College to develop clever concepts under the mentorship of professionals from Allen & Overy and PwC. Now in...
Helping businesses get Brexit ready
ULSTER University Business School has launched a threestage programme of activity to help Northern Ireland businesses get Brexit ready. The initiative has begun with the launch of an online Brexit Business Survey to be co-ordinated over the next four weeks in conjunction with FSB. This will aim to identify businesses’ perceptions of Brexit taking into...
Why not consider a career in recruitment?
Abacus Professional Recruitment are a specialist consultancy based in Belfast City who have serviced the needs of Northern Ireland’s largest and fastest growing businesses for the last 14 years. Due to ongoing demand for their services they now wish to promote a range of opportunities that they are now recruiting for. They have requirements for...
How to earn £100,000
It’s easy to earn loads of money, apparently. A quick look of the nijobfinder.co.uk site and some canny – at least in my technologically inept world – ‘advanced searching’ will bring up a plethora of jobs with a salary of over £100,000. More precisely, the top paying role pays up to £490-a-day which works out...
The robots are coming
Ever get the feeling someone is looking over your shoulder and eagerly eyeing your job? Maybe someone from another firm, a colleague or someone who works for you? What about the beady eyes of a robot, one which doesn’t ask for a salary, doesn’t take tea breaks and doesn’t get stuck in traffic? It might...
Reasons to be cheerful, part 1
Whether you’re looking for a job or hiring for a new position, it’s easy to get the feeling we’re very hard done by here in Northern Ireland. Sure, isn’t the dole queue down the street and the talent pool shallower than a puddle in the Gobi desert? Well don’t listen to such negativity because –...
How to…Cope With Redundancy
FACING redundancy can be an anxious time and although it may be a daunting prospect it is also an opportunity for a fresh start. There is plenty of advice out there on how best to cope with redundancy, how to survive it and how to use it to your best advantage. Keep busy: Until you...
Mark Angus
Role: Swimming Teacher and Coach Company: City of Belfast Swimming Club Track Record: Through volunteering swimming coach Mark Angus managed to turn a hobby he loved into a career. HOW I BECAME A SWIMMING TEACHER Give a brief outline of your career to date. I have been teaching learn to swim lessons for seven years...
Construction Academy launched to meet skills shortages
A NEW National Construction Skills Academy (NCSA) has been launched to plug a major skills gap in the building sector. The NCSA will be based at Industry Training Services (ITS) in Portadown and will provide tuition across several trades including groundworks, joinery, bricklaying, plastering, tiling, structural steel erection and steel-fixing. It has been established following...