Roisin McKee
Role: Director of Northern Ireland Company: People 1st Track Record: ‘The WorldHost customer service programme’s success has been phenomenal and was clearly demonstrated by the fantastic welcome staff and volunteers offered during last summer’s World Police and Fire Games and the more recent Giro D’Italia,’ says Roisin What does your job entail?As our name suggests,...
Retails Therapy: How to Get a rewarding Career
There are so many different types of retail environment in which to work, such as marketing, phone sales, visual merchandising and purchasing. If you’ve decided that you want to pursue a career in retail, it’s important that you’ve done your research and that you choose an environment which is going to suit you. Claire O’Reilly...
Answer Interview Questions
READY THAT ‘OFF THE CUFF’ REPLY YOU’VE secured the interview and have done all your research on the company and position but now you can give yourself an extra advantage by anticipating the interview scenario and questions. While all interview situations will differ from company to company there are a few generic questions you can...
Chance to make History with Navan Fort
ARMAGH is on the hunt for a creative artistic director or producer with the passion to transform the historic Navan Fort into a world class visitor destination. Armagh City and District Council wants the new artistic director/producer to play a central role in developing an innovative experiential interpretation of one of Ireland’s most impressive legendary...
Skilled people will help ‘transform the economy’
NORTHERN Ireland’s chief asset is its people and it is their talents and skills that will transform the economy, according to Employment & Learning Minister Stephen Farry. He was speaking at the re-cent launch of the second phase of the Qualifying the Existing Workforce initiative at the Construction Industry Training Board NI (CITB) Nutts Corner...
College’s Big Role
NEARLY one fifth of all high-er education students in Northern Ireland are studying in one of the six local further education regional colleges, according to Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Ferry. He was addressing the re-cent South Eastern Regional College (SERC) graduation ceremony in Belfast and said NI’s FE colleges played a central role in...
Nelson Returns
Nelson has been reap-pointed as a member of the governing body of Northern Regional College (NRC). Mr Nelson is chief executive of LEDCOM, one of Northern Ireland’s longest established business enterprise centres, and has over 22 years’ experience working as a business adviser, mentor and trainer with entrepreneurs, start up companies, small businesses and social...
State-of-the-art refrigeration skills training on offer
SOUTH Eastern Regional College (SERC) is offering air conditioning and refrigeration training for SMAs wanting to reduce carbon emissions. Thanks to funding from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Skills Solution Customised Training programme, Belfast based company Montgomery Refrigeration Ltd has already up-skilled over 20 refrigeration engineers. They trained in specialist hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerant to...
Scheme gets firms access to Knowledge
A KNOWLEDGE transfer programmehelping businesses improve their performance is now in it’s third launch phase. Launching Connceted 3 the minister for Emploment and Learning, Stephen Farry said: “My decision to approve a third round of Connected to run for the next four years, represents an investment of over £4.5 million and is testament to the excellent...
Bridghe Reilly
Role: Cookery Demonstrator Company: The Livestock and Meat Commission for NI Track Record: Bridghe qualified as a teacher of Home Economics in the 70s and taught Home Economics in St Mark’s High School, Warrenpoint until 2004. She held the post of head of department for most of that time and experienced many changes in her...