Academy Delivers 20 Graduate Openings
A NEW training academy aims to provide 20 graduates with leader-ship and management skills. The Deloitte Human Capital Academy will offer experience and training in the areas of project and programme management capabilities with human resource consulting, change management, organisational design and lead-ership expertise to manage and solve people issues. Targeting graduates from any discipline,...
Students Build for the Future
ARCHITECTURAL technology students from University of Ulster have been show-casing their work at the end of year show, including those who will graduate later this month. They demonstrated their talent in building information modelling and ex-hibited their innovative building concepts of domestic and commercial projects. Employers in attendance at the event, including WDR & RT...
Employment Briefs – Recruitment Fair
QUEEN’S University and Ulster University joined forces this week to host the biggest ever Northern Ireland Graduate Recruitment Fair. The Graduate Recruitment and Placement Fair, with Nijobfinder as media partner, saw 90 exhibitors from a range of employers across a variety of sectors and industries offering graduate vacancies, postgraduate study and training opportunities. Among those...
Kerry Teahan
Role: Director Company: Tughans Track Record: What does your job entail? I am a director in the Contracts and Technology Department at Tughans. We provide commercially focused legal advice on all types of commercial and technology arrangements, from distribution and agency agreements to website terms and conditions and OEM contracts. I work with a wide...
Julie Shannon
Role: Group Support Manager Company: Almac Group Track Record: Julie joined Almac Group in 2001 from Fujitsu. Since then she has progressed through the Information Services team, and now has responsibility for leading a global team to support Almac’s Information Services (IS) infrastructure, network, databases, systems and hardware. Based at the company’s headquarters in Craigavon,...
How to… Make a creative portfolio
REFLECT YOUR WORKING STYLE IF you’re looking to make it as a professional creative, the all-important question is what makes one creative portfolio stand out from another. Pip Jamieson, founder of professional creative networking platform, The Dips, shares five top portfolio tips: LESS IS MOREOr as we like to say in the office ‘all killer,...
Sweet Success for Neve’s Winning Code
A BELFAST schoolgirl has won the top prize in a healththemed code competition. Fourteen year-old Neve O’Neill was awarded a tablet computer for her winning entry ‘Sweet Invaders’ in the Better CoderDojo competition, organised by CoderDojo Belfast and Belfast-based tech company, TotalMobile. Judges of the competition, open to children under 16 who attend CoderDojo Belfast,...
University opening its doors to new students
THE Open University has launched its first ever Open Week to coincide with Adult Learners’ Week. Taking place in its Belfast headquarters, Open Week will run from June 15-19 and will provide prospective learners with information on courses, qualifications, fees and more. Welcoming Open Week, the Minister for Employment and Learning, Stephen Farry, highlighted the...
Expert advice offered at free SME clinics
SMES across Northern Ireland are being offered the opportunity to access expert practical advice on seeking financial investment by the Ulster University Business School’s SME Centre. A series of SME Finance Clinics are to be held in Belfast, Newry and Londonderry with the aim of upskilling and educating SMEs about the range of alternative finance...
Employment brief – Aerospace Creation
EIGHTY high quality jobs are to be created at an aerospacecomponent firm. RLC is investing almost £35m to expand its Northern Ireland operations and establish a world-class advanced manufacturing capability for its new 10,000sq m factory at the Global Point site in Newtownabbey. As part of the investment, RLC is also undertaking a research and...