How To… Provide A Reference
Ensuring Your References Will Help You RODGER Gilpin, a partner at Gilpin Executive Search gives his advice on choosing references. When filling out application forms, people tend to focus more on previous experience, skills and qualifications, but spend little time deciding who their references should be. Many employers consider reference checks an important part of...
Training Academy Celebrates As Initial Intake Of Graduates Make The Grade
A TRAINING academy has celebrated its first batch of successful graduates. Seventeen students successfully completed the Deloitte Analytics Training Academy (DATA) and have graduated with the skills and accredited qualifications identified by Deloitte for new job opportunities in their Belfast office. DATA is a Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) initiative involving a nine week...
Get The Edge With Problem-Solving Programme
SERC has launched a new inititive to help its students ‘Get the Edge’. Over 2,000 from the college took part in the programme, designed to help them gain vital employability skills, including problem-solving and communicating solutions, as well as achieving an additional City and Guilds qualification. Students in small teams competed in the challenge to...
‘Industry leading’ Course Sends Students To Work
STUDENTS at Ulster Business School are getting hands on experience in marketing products for the UK’s £1.4bn infant wear industry. With the country experiencing its biggest baby boom in over 40 years, the University of Ulster’s Business School is giving its 25 marketing management students the opportunity to feed into the marketing strategy of a...
Richard Kirk
Role: Assistant Director Company: Northern Ireland, Institution of Civil Engineers Track Record: “I work with government and politicians to reinforce the message that infrastructure is good for society, with every £1 invested generating a return of £2.84 in the wider economy,” said Richard. What does your job entail? I’m responsible for supporting all grades of...
Employment Briefs
Dentist Expansion A DENTAL surgery is to create around 12 new jobs on Belfast’s Lisburn Road. NI Dental Care will form a subsidiary of Church Road Dental Care, Carryduff, a practice founded by David Mann and Anne Higgins in 2009. According to Mr Mann, the expansion of the business, supported by Danske Bank, has been...
Employment Briefs
130 New Girlguides SAINSBURYS and Girlguiding Ulster have teamed up in a recruitment drive for the youth organisation. Thanks to marketing in each of supermarket’s 13 stores in Northern Ireland, the organisation has taken on over 130 new Girlguides and 20 new leaders. Carole Graham, Ulster chief commissioner for Girlguiding Ulster, said:“It was extremely generous...
How To … Sell Yourself
TOP TIPS FOR JOB SUCCESS If you’re a naturally shy person it can be a daunting task to try and sell yourself in a job application form or interview but there are a few ways to make it easier. 1) REALISE YOUR OWN STRENGTHSThe first step to selling yourself is to recognise that you have...
Employment Briefs
Driving Businesses QUEEN’S University has joined a unique cross-border project aimed at matching innovative ideas to existing businesses or seasoned entrepreneurs. The £2.56m Vital project, funded by the EU’s INTERREG IVA Programme and managed by the Special EU Programmes Body, aims to identify the best knowledge-based ideas,con-nect them to new and existing businesses and create...
A First For PhD Student From Magee with Top Law Bursary Award
A University of Ulster PhD student has become the first in Northern Ireland to receive a prestigious Modern Law Review (MLR) Scholarship. Orla Drummond from Londonderry — who is based at the universities Magee campus — will receive a bursary of £5,000 per annum. She will also be invited to the Modern Law Review Chorley...