Students Set For A Career In The ‘Cloud’
FOURTEEN students have been honoured at an awards ceremony for the pilot Cloud Technology Academy. The Cloud Technology Academy trained the graduates with the skills and accredited qualifications identified by ICT sector employers for new job opportunities in the growing area of cloud technology. The academy comprised 15 weeks of training for the students at...
Karen Douglas
Role: Service Manager Company: The Rowan, Regional Sexual Referral Centre for Northern Ireland Track Record: Every victim of sex abuse has their own unique needs. “A police colleague recently told me about the work of Viktor E Frankl who wrote: ‘When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change...
SME’s Plug in to New Skills Hub Network
A NEW skills initiative in Northern Ireland — a first for the UK — will help local companies maximise their training and development opportunities, according to industry leaders. The objective of a Skills Hub is to enable employers to facilitate the secondment of highly skilled members of staff to other local organisations and SMEs. Speaking...
Gavin McGoldrick
Role: Senior Manager of Production Operations Company: Allstate NI Track Record: It can be very satisfying when you delight the client with a clever solution. “Tenacity and a commitment to resolve a situation helps to get results; we’re only as good as our last set of results,” says Gavin. What does your job entail? I...
David Meers
Role: Shopkeeper for Kitchens & Dining Company: Ikea Belfast Track Record: It’s good to hear how our products improve homes. THE POST Shopkeeper for kitchens and dining, IKEA THE POST HOLDER David Meers TRACK RECORD David Meers, who lives in Antrim town, has been married to Claire for 24 years. He has two daughters, Catherine...
Enhancing Our Engineering Talent
With increased focus on research and development as well as the use of pioneering technologies to drive forward growth in the engineering sector, the challenge going forward will be to ensure that we attract the right people and skills to meet our growing needs, says Darren McVicker, Managing Consultant, Vickerstock Engineering Recruitment. Manufacturing and engineering...
Gordon Walker
Role: Policy Officer Company: Community Relations Council Track Record: “You need to take risks in community dialogue.” ‘We are in a very privileged position to be able to foster the debate around these issues with a cross-section of community partners. I get a significant amount of fulfilment from seeing some of the results of this,...
Enterprise Scheme Boosts Marketing Skills Of Start-up Companies
BUDDING entrepreneurs from across Belfast are seeing their business ideas flourish after taking part in an enterprise programme funded by the City Council. They completed the Market Start-Up Programme, which explored market trading as a business model and gave new-start businesses within the food and craft industries in Belfast the chance to test trade products...
Skills Hub To Help Share Knowledge Of Employees
A NEW skills initiative in Northern Ireland — a first for the UK — will help local companies maximise their training and development opportunities, according to industry leaders. Speaking at the launch of the Skills Hub, Robert Cooper, CEO of Harland and Wolff, said the scheme was a ‘win-win’ solution for employers and employees. The...
Entrepreneurs To Benefit From Business Bootcamp
AN internationally recognised entrepreneurial boot camp comes to Belfast this month — its first ever visit to Ireland. Thanks to Lean Startup Machine, aspiring entrepreneurs will now have a new avenue to test their ideas and products with customers. The event received more than 300 online votes in just eight days in order to ‘unlock’...