CIPD NI Awards 2018 set sail
TITANIC Belfast will once again be the venue for a major celebration of Northern Ireland’s HR profession. CIPD Northern Ireland is staging its annual awards gala at the famous Belfast landmark for the third year running on May 10, 2018, with recruitment specialists Grafton as the principal sponsor. Entries for next year’s awards are now...
Tommy McGinley
Sales Manager John Mulholland Motor Group Role: John Mulholland Motor Group has appointed Tommy McGinley to the role of Sales Manager. Track Record: John Mulholland Motor Group has appointed Tommy McGinley to the role of Sales Manager.
Upskilling future business leaders
ULSTER University Business School has launched a programme to help develop the skills of future leaders. The Mini MBA initiative in partnership with American legal firm Axiom is designed to complement the company’s Developing Leaders curriculum and the first cohort will compromise of 15 members of Axiom’s talent pool from the local office in Belfast...
Tim Whittaker
Role: Production Apprentice Company: Forfey Ltd Track Record: Tim Whittaker is learning on the job in his first employed role as a production apprentice. HOW I BECAME A PRODUCTION APPRENTICE Give a brief outline of your career to date. This is my very first ‘real’ job – though when I was younger I was a...
Inspiring the next generation of scientists
OVER £1m is being invested through a partnership agreement aimed at enhancing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) knowledge and understanding among the next generation of budding scientists W5 has secured the Almac Group as its Health and Life Sciences partner for the next 10 years and the collaboration includes plans to open a new...
4 simple strategies to take you from nerves to impact at your next interview
From nerves to making the right impact at interview This is it. You’ve seen a job you would love to go for, you read the spec and think, yes! I can go for this. Then…the little voice in your heard starts. “But you haven’t done an interview in years, don’t be ridiculous, you can’t do...
Hairdressing event aims to spur innovation and creativity
A START-UP company is holding an event to encourage creativity and innovation across Northern Ireland’s haircare industry. The Belfast-based, Quartered Steels recently secured private equity funding to set up their bespoke scissors manufacturing business and with this one-day event its founders and organisers of the first ever HairFest 2017, Dan Wild and Andrew Mearns, hope...
Gillian McCann
Role: Cloud Architect Company: Liberty Information Technology Track Record: Working in a fast paced industry means cloud architect Gillian McCann needs good communication skills and the ability to think on her feet. HOW I BECAME A CLOUD ARCHITECT Give a brief outline of your career to date. I joined Liberty IT as a graduate in...
Study USA Student of the Year
AN ACCOUNTING student from Queen’s University, Belfast has been named Study USA Student of the Year. Niall O’Hagan spent a year studying business at Arcadia University, Pennsylvania and now hopes to use the experience to pursue a career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The 22-year-old was among 47 students from Northern Ireland to successfully graduate from the...
Catherine MacDonald
Role: General Manager Company: Little Wing Newtownards Track Record: Give a brief outline of your career to date. I had worked in a few different hospitality and retail jobs while at school and university. When I left university, I took up a full-time contract in the supermarket I had been working in and continued there...