How To… Love What You Do
IN her latest blog post for nijobfinder.co.uk Generation Women founder, Sinead Sharkey shares her top tips for falling in love with your job. How do you feel about your job? Did you know your career is the number one factor in your overall wellbeing? It stands to reason, after all, it’s what we do every...
Student success at hospitality and tourism awards
AN EVENTS Management graduate is celebrating after winning four top awards at the Ulster University Business School’s annual Hospitality and Tourism Awards. Catherine Jennings, who recently graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Leisure and Events Management, was presented with the Tourism NI Event Management Award, the Origin Digital Award, the Special Olympics Event Management...
Fiona Brown – Director, Fiona Brown Communications
The Post: Director, Fiona Brown Communications The Post Holder: Fiona Brown A passion for PR led Fiona Brown to her career path. HOW I BECAME A PR DIRECTOR FIONA BROWN Give a brief outline of your career to date. I have over 14 years’ experience in the PR industry and during this time I’ve worked...
New hospitality jobs at Belfast hotel
A TWO million pound investment at the Fitzwilliam Hotel, Belfast is to create 17 new hospitality jobs. Work has already begun to upgrade rooms and increase capacity at the five-star hotel’s Great Victoria Street premises and brings the total investment in the hotel since 2016 to £4million. This latest phase will see the existing bedrooms...
Stephen McGarry – Senior Business Advisor, Work West
The Post: Senior Business Advisor, Work West The Post Holder: Stephen McGarry As a social enterprise advisor Stephen McGarry helps the next generation of leaders to develop their skills. HOW I BECAME A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ADVISOR Give a brief outline of your career to date. My first job was working in my uncle’s corner shop...
Andy McNeill – General Manager, Hastings Stormont Hotel
Give a brief outline of your career to date I started working in the Hastings Europa Hotel when I was 16 and worked there for 19 years, steadily working my way up the ranks. I started as a function bars waiter and during my placement year I was night auditor. When I graduated I became...
Seven quirky facts you didn’t know about Grand Central Hotel Belfast
WITH only four months until the opening of the Grand Central, Hastings Hotels has put together seven quirky facts about the construction of Northern Ireland’s largest hotel. Julie Hastings, Marketing Director of Hastings Hotels said: “The Grand Central Hotel represents the single biggest project that Hastings Hotels has ever undertaken. The construction process has been...
Inspiring conference to unlock potential
ONE of the world’s most respected communications experts is to speak in Belfast next month. Julian Treasure will be one of three keynote speakers at the CO3 conference at the La Mon Hotel House on March 1. His talk, How to Speak So That People Want to Listen, is in the top 10 TED talks...
Alex Christofi – Coffee Trainer, BWL Group
The Post: Coffee Trainer, BWL Group The Post Holder: Alex Christofi A passion for the product helps coffee trainer, Alex Christofi to inspire others. HOW I BECAME A COFFEE TRAINER Give a brief outline of your career to date I was 15 when I first got involved in the hospitality industry and I haven’t looked back...
How to fall in love with your job?
Falling in love with your job: 5 tactics you can use to enjoy what you do more It’s Valentine’s week and we’re all being bombarded with marketing to tell us it’s time to show some love. Whether it makes you want to boke, or you love this time of year…how about spreading some of that...