University of Ulster’s Graduate Bootcamp Is A Runaway Success
A Graduate Winter Bootcamp at the University of Ulster to boost graduates’ employment prospects has proved so popular that organisers are planning more for the future. The recent two-day forum attracted more participants than expected and those who were unable to secure a place will be enrolled in the next session. The bootcamp was organised...
ICT Apprentice Scheme Helps Recruit 32 Workers
More than 30 individuals have been recruited thanks to Belfast Metropolitan College’s Public/Private ICT Apprenticeship Pilot. The scheme, involving government and a number of local ICT employers, has seen 32 individuals recruited as apprentices and taking up various software development and IT infrastructure roles in both the public and private sector. Attending the celebratory event...
Scholarship Scheme Seeks Top Students
A Scholarship scheme will open up future career opportunities for more than 20 students. The All Ireland Scholarships for 2013 now in its fifth year, provides financial assistance to top-performing students from low income households who intend to take up a full-time undergraduate course in the coming autumn. The value of each scholarship is £5,500...
Business Students Get Careers Into Gear
Students from six Belfast schools are honing their business skills in an Apprentice-style challenge with Northern Ireland’s biggest car dealership. Organised by Charles Hurst Group and Business In The Community (BITC), three teams of students have each been awarded a vehicle and £500 to enhance the car’s value with a view to making a profit...
Is a Masters Degree Really Ever Worth It?
Your degree might be coming to an end, but are you ready to leave university yet? Tamsin Crouch and Tom Goulding discuss the benefits of continuing your university education. For many undergraduates in their final year at university, the spectre of graduation is looming ever closer on the horizon. Some will relish the prospect of...
Graduate Focus: QUB Backs Innovative E Learning Package
QUEEN’S HEALTH workers and patients across Northern Ireland are to benefit from a new initiative at Queen’s University which better prepares trainee doctors to safely move patients. In addition to the risk to patients from incorrect handling, back injuries suffered by healthcare workers are estimated to cost the NHS around £400 million and account for...
What’s It Like To Study… Field Science
Not every degree leaves you languishing in lectures for three years. Third-year zoologist Tamara Williams’ studies have taken her to Ecuador so she can get up close and personal with rain forest life. At some point in my teens, I found myself so lost in the mesmerising world portrayed by David Attenborough, that I knew...
How to… Tackle Those Killer Questions
Have you ever struggled to answer tough interview questions? Does your mind go blank when faced with questions about yourself or salary expectations? In the second of two features, Anne Richardson from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Careers Service takes a look at some tricky interview questions and suggests how you could approach them:...
CIPD NI Awards
The search is on to find Northern Ireland’s top HR practitioners with entries now open for the inaugural Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) NI Awards. Nijobfinder is proud media partner for the awards which will be presented in eight separate categories each recognizing the contribution individuals and teams working in the HR discipline have...
Businesses Get Networking To Develop ICT Skills
A Leading educationalist has welcomed the FE sector’s partnership with Northern Ireland SMEs to help drive ICT projects. SERC principal and chief executive Ken Webb was speaking at a recent InnovateUs initiative. This new programme will allow funding to be made available for SME’s to invest in ICT projects. Said Mr Webb: “This project is...