Go Global In Your Quest For A Career
Teaching English abroad is an increasingly popular choice for struggling graduates, explains Daniel Goddard. Despite the UK economy recently coming out of a double-dip recession, the graduate job market is still lagging behind its heyday of the mid-noughties. With 52 applications on average for every graduate vacancy, teaching English abroad is fast becoming a serious...
What’s It Like To Study… Theatre Studies
JAMIE ROBERTSON studied BA Drama, Performance and Theatre Arts at Staffordshire University. I can remember clearly my drama teacher, Mr. Jewkes, chatting to me during my high school studies in Year 9 and telling me “you should really do this at GCSE Jamie”. Through my time at school I rode the wave a little too...
Volunteer And Boost Your Career
IN today’s more difficult economic climate, competition for jobs and college or university places can be tougher than ever, but volunteering your time to a good cause can give you a competitive edge. Anne Richardson, from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Careers Service explains. Have you ever felt the desire to help your community,...
How To Be A… Hairdresser
HAIRDRESSING has always been a popular career choice both with school leavers and as a second career. Sharon Malcolm of Sharon Malcolm Hairdressing, Newtownards talks through her route into the profession and offers advice for anyone considering hairdressing as a career. She says: “First and foremost, hairdressers in the making need to have a passion for...
Financial Course
BUSINESSES looking to skill up in the area of financial management should sign up for the latest course to be hosted by Belfast City Council. The Business of Finance Programme is open to 15 small businesses or social enterprises in the city with less than 20 employees and will offer a financial health check and...
More Going Abroad
MIGRATION experts are warning that more middle-class families are leaving the UK for a better quality of life abroad. Paul Arthur, director of The Emigration Group said: “People can see a way of life in Australia or New Zealand that can’t be achieved in the UK and this is reason enough to up sticks”. For more...
100 Jobs Through Derry’s City Of Culture Year
A £1 MILLION programme for smaller businesses planned by Derry City Council is expected to create around 100 new jobs next year during the City of Culture event. Invest Northern Ireland has offered over £700,000 of support towards the project which is also being funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the Sustainable Competitiveness...
East Belfast Now On A Mission To Create Jobs
EAST Belfast Mission, recently named the UK Social Enterprise of the Year, is creating 21 new full time positions with support from Invest Northern Ireland’s Jobs Fund. The community development organisation has opened a childcare nursery and relocated its café to its new Skainos building on the Newtownards Road where 17 of the 21 jobs...
Trust The Prince To Support Retail
THE Prince’s Trust’s Get Into Retail programme has secured employment for 11 young people thanks to a joint programme with a high street retailer. Fully funded and supported by TK Maxx this four week project, delivered in partnership with People 1st, has been specifically tailored to give unemployed 16-to-25-year-olds the confidence, skills and training to...
Hundreds To Be Helped By Job Scheme
OVER 300 unemployed people in East and South Belfast will benefit from a new job skills programme. Launched by the First Minister, participants in the ’Rapid Impact Programme’ will benefit from gaining new skills, training and work experience opportunities and a guaranteed job interview at the end of their placement. Welcoming the initiative Peter Robinson...