David Fusco – Customer Relationship Manager, Electric Ireland, Northern Ireland
The Post: Customer Relationship Manager, Electric Ireland, Northern Ireland The Post Holder: David Fusco HOW I BECAME A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGER Customer relationship manager, David Fusco has worked his way up in the energy industry. Give a brief outline of your career to date. My first full time job was at Clarity Telecom in Belfast...
445 Royal Mail Christmas jobs up for grabs
Royal Mail is launching its annual recruitment drive in a bid to fill 445 temporary positions in Northern Ireland over the busy festive period. The seasonal recruits will help to sort Christmas parcels and cards as well as the growing amount of online shopping orders before they are taken to delivery offices for postmen and...
How to… answer unexpected interview questions
Interviewers often throw in a trick or unexpected question to try and catch you unaware. Quite often there is no right or wrong answer but rather they are trying to gauge your ability to think on your feet. If you were given a box of 10 pencils can you list 10 things that you could...
Amazon relocates NI base to new Belfast Titanic Quarter site
Amazon, the online retailer, has relocated its base in Northern Ireland from Carrickfergus to Belfast. The online retail giant confirmed yesterday that it had moved to the Titanic Quarter in Belfast from its Amazon Logistics centre at Kilroot Business Park in Carrickfergus. 18 jobs were initially based at the Kilroot site, with another 130 driver...
New bar and restaurant at Belfast airport to create 15 jobs
Plans for ‘The Artisan’, Belfast City Airport’s new bar and restaurant, have been revealed. The bar and restaurant will create 15 new jobs and will open as part of a £15m investment at the airport. With work nearly completed on the 280 square metre premises, it is hoped that it will be ready to open...
Grant Thornton expands staff
Grant Thornton, the business advisory firm, has announced it is expanding its staff in a £4m investment. The firm will be recruiting 48 members of staff to add to its existing workforce of 100 in Northern Ireland. The roles include change management experts, IT consultants, economic advisers and cyber-specialists. Economic development agency Invest NI has...
Mary Arthurs – Hotel Proprietor/Bar Owner, The Portaferry Hotel & Dumigans’ Bar
The Post: Hotel proprietor/bar owner, The Portaferry Hotel & Dumigans’ Bar The Post Holder: Mary Arthurs HOW I BECAME A HOTEL PROPRIETOR No two days are ever the same for hotel owner Mary Arthurs. Give a brief outline of your career to date. I started out studying accountancy and after I realised it wasn’t for...
McDonald’s opening 30th outlet in Northern Ireland – creating 100 new jobs
A new McDonald’s restaurant will open in Northern Ireland next month creating 100 jobs. The “dual lane” drive thru restaurant at The Junction in Antrim the retail and leisure park, will be the first McDonald’s in Antrim. Its opening will see it compete directly with rival fast food chain, Burger King, which also has an...
How to… study effectively
While September may be all about settling into the new term – or maybe even a new school or university – now is the time to start focusing on your study technique. Putting in a little effort now will make life easier come exam time. HINTS AND TIPS Take good lecture notes It may sound...
£1m investment to double the size of Belfast’s new tech hub
Through a £1m investment, Belfast’s Ormeau Baths is set to double the size of its co-working space at the innovation hub. Since opening as a hub for firms in July 2017, the former Victorian bathhouse on Ormeau Avenue, has become a centre for new tech start-ups in the city. Announcing the development of a further...