How To … Deal with Work Place Stress
A MIXTURE OF BALANCE AND ORGANISATION Do you dread the thought of Monday morning and the workload it brings? Most people at one stage or another will suffer from stress in the workplace but there are practical ways to manage it. DON’T TRY TO DO TOO MUCHOften we are our own harshest critics, putting ourselves...
Law Firm Reaching Out to Give Trainee Opportunities
LAW firm Allen & Overy is teaming up with South Eastern Regional College to offer an innovative course bolstering expertise in the legal jobs market. The Document Skills Foundation Course creates opportunities for people from legal and nonlegal backgrounds to gain employment with law firms in the production and management of complex documents. It is...
Your Views Count
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has hosted the first in a series of forums to collect the views of employers, young people and training providers on apprenticeships and youth training. Speaking from Belfast Metropolitan College’s e3 campus, he said: “The views expressed will feed into the major review of apprenticeship and youth training...
FE Needs Funding
Government must do more to promote and incentivise further education (FE) study to ensure more people gain new skills, according to the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland president Rebecca Hall.“FE is central to building skills for our economy and to helping attract more jobs to Northern Ireland,” she said. “I know that...
It’s Official, The Tele Is Market Leader For Jobs
RECENT figures reveal more people view NI Jobfinder jobs via print and online than any other job website or paper in Northern Ireland. The NITGI 2013 figures show 487,000 people have viewed Nijobfinder in the last month alone (Belfast Telegraph AIR, Sunday Life AIR and nijobfinder.co.uk past four weeks). With a platform in print,...
How To … Ask for Interview Feedback
MAKE SURE YOU IMPRESS ON THE NEXT OCCASION OK, let’s get the bad news over with — you didn’t get the job. But this is a great opportunity for you to turn bad news into good news.If you ask interviewers for feedback, it gives you a great chance to think constructively about your performance. You...
City Scapes Tell a Tale
The BT Portrait of a City project is working with community groups across Londonderry to upskill participants in digital media. The initiative is part of the 2013 City of Culture celebrations and a unique undertaking which aims to tell the stories of the city through the photographs, films and memories of its people. The goal...
Success Expected from Government-run Job Fair
Derry is playing host to what is expected to be the most successful jobs fair of its kind to date in the city. Tomorrow’s fair, in the Millennium Forum between 10am and 4pm, has been organised by the Department for Employment and Learning in conjunction with Derry City Council, CultureTECH and EURES. Employment and Learning...
Belfast Met takes Holistic Approach to IT Training
A NEW curriculum at Belfast Metropolitan College is boosting student numbers and reaping benefits for local businesses, it was claimed today. With forecasts suggesting 2,000 new IT jobs annually over the next 10 years for Northern Ireland, Belfast Met — in conjunction with industry and organisations such as Momentum, eSkills and Digital Circle — says...
Professional Help
THE Ulster Business School (UBS) has announced the appointment of two new visiting professors — Tracy Hamilton (above right), cofounder and director of Mash Direct and Ian McConnell, partner with PwC. Both are alumni of Ulster Business School and will assume their voluntary roles for a four-year period. Dean of Ulster Business School, Professor Marie...