Apprentice star takes post with top sales and marketing firm

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

Q. I am doing my final exams in Engineering in college in May and I am faced with doom and gloom about my future. Can I do anything at this stage to help me onto the career ladder?

A. Now is an excellent time to start deciding on your future and to be pro-active.

Big business comes to Galway schools

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

GMIT made the future look a lot brighter for almost 100 students from secondary schools in Galway, when they visited the Third Level Institute recently. The students were taking part in the Junior Achievement Ireland Enterprise Challenge project, supported by the GMIT Access office, under The Dormant Accounts (Educational Disadvantage) Fund for the development of access services in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

Mayor to announce Gradam finalists on eve of St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations, the Mayor of Galway City, Cllr Michael Crowe will announce the finalists of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2011 at 12.30 pm on Wednesday next March 16 at a press event on the ground floor in the Eyre Square Centre.

Mayor to announce Gradam finalists on eve of St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

As part of Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations, the Mayor of Galway City, Cllr Michael Crowe will announce the finalists of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2011 at 12.30 pm on Wednesday next March 16 at a press event on the ground floor in the Eyre Square Centre.

Gaillimh le Gaeilge organise this annual award in association with the Galway Advertiser, to recognise, honour and celebrate all the great bilingual work done in Galway in order to gain Bilingual Status for the city. This year, 19 businesses and organisations from a wide variety of sectors have entered the award.

GMIT conference to focus on the best of the construction industry

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A conference to mark the first international construction management day will be hosted by the GMIT Department of Building & Civil Engineering at GMIT’s Dublin Road campus, Galway, on Monday next March 14. The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the Construction Management Associations of America (CMMA), Japan (CMAJ) and Korea (CMAK) promote International Construction Management Day.

NUI Galway Students’ Union launches Student Enterprise Awards

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

The Student Enterprise Awards, a competition to encourage enterprise and innovation among students, has been launched at NUI Galway. The NUI Galway Students’ Union initiative invites students across campus to put forward proposals for a project or business, with a prize of €15,000 for the overall winner.

Galway Bay Hotel wins prestigious EFQM Excellence award

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

The Galway Bay Hotel was recently awarded with the much coveted EFQM award at a ceremony in Castleknock last Tuesday 22nd February. This is a European Quality Mark of Excellence, initiated by Failte Ireland.

Career progression with successful interviews

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

More and more companies are creating opportunities for employees to benefit from internal promotions. The recession has made companies review their internal hiring policies by replacing external recruitment with creating promotional opportunities internally, allowing employees to step up to the plate. It makes more commercial sense to develop current employees by encouraging them to take more senior roles.

One of the positives of the recession is that it has made companies more prudent and resourceful regarding its workforce. People always welcome the opportunity to develop and to prove that they can compete with the best candidates competing for the position. Companies would like their employees to see themselves as human capital. The only obstacle for competing candidates is the internal war for talent. They have to show hiring managers that they are up for the promotion by demonstrating new behaviours, maturity, professionalism and responsibilities if they are to secure the new position.

Two Galway businesswomen launch joint food and wine showcase

Thu, Feb 24, 2011

The adage ‘innovation is the key to success’ is true for two family-owned Galway businesses that are joining forces to bring some of the world’s best wine producers to Galway for a food and wine showcase event. Renvyle House Hotel and Galway city wine distributors J&C Kenny have combined their specialist skills and contacts in wine, food and hospitality to stage an International Wine Weekend at Renvyle House Hotel from April 1-3.

Seizing PR Opportunities – How your small business can look MÓR!

Thu, Feb 24, 2011

Have you ever felt your competitor seems to have that edge and manages to appear in the papers and you wonder why? The answer may be that they are proactive in managing their PR and take and create the opportunities in order to gain media coverage.

To demystify this, Mór Public Relations will present The DIY PR Workshop in association with the Galway City and County Enterprise Board on Monday March 7 from 10am to 2.30pm. This interactive training course, developed by well established PR consultant Máirín O’Reilly, specialises in enabling start-up enterprises and owner-run businesses to seize their PR opportunities in the current climate, gaining free publicity without having a PR budget.

Local med device company Marvao secures major investment

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Marvao Medical Devices, an early stage Irish medical device company base din Galway and focused on commercializing new products that reduce the risk of catheter related infections, has secured investment of €1.3 million in a funding round led by the AIB Seed Capital Fund along with earlier private investors including Harmac Medical Products and the Western Development Commission.

Turning your life around

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

What if you were told you could turn your life around in a matter of days? One man who promises just that, backed up by hundreds of success stories, is Seán Connaughton. His career has taken him from working in Human Resources for a leading computer giant, to becoming one of the west’s most successful masters in professional and personal effectiveness.

NUIG to host workshops for Project Maths

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

The School of Education at NUI Galway will host a series of workshops as part of the University’s new Continual Professional Development (CPD) programme for teachers. The workshops will focus on statistics, teaching and learning plans in Project Maths and GeoGebra. The events will take place on 1, 8 and 15 March in the Education Building in the University from 6 to 8.30 each evening.

Loughrea-based psychometric company leads the way to innovation success

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Loughrea company Cut-e has been announced as a finalist in the `Organisational Systems and Processes’ category of The Irish Times InterTradeIreland All-island Innovation Awards.

Yorkshire native Sean Rowland new head of JCI Galway

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

The 2011 President of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Galway is Sean Rowland, Corporate Sales Manager for the Harbour Hotel and local pianist. JCI Galway is part of an international organisation focusing on leadership, entrepreneurship and active citizenship. JCI has a strong focus on creating young leaders, achieved by running many worthwhile projects which add to and enhance community life in Galway.

Your Career, Your Choices - Don’t expect employers to ‘show you the money?’

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Q. I am hoping to finish my business degree this year. Apart from working in a local shop during the summer, the only work experience I have involved spending six months at a major multi-national IT company as part of my college course. I wasn’t even paid, but I learned a great deal. Should I present this as work experience in my CV?

Fancy a valuable package for the cupla focail?

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

Does your business or any business you know deserve to be recognised and rewarded for its efforts in promoting the Irish language. Then make sure that you nominate it or yourself for Galway’s best bilingual business awards competition.

Galway businesses feted for customer service

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

Two Galway businessmen had good cause for celebration last week when the SUBWAY® stores that they respectively own in Tuam and Loughrea were rated among the top 10 SUBWAY® stores in Ireland for cleanliness and customer service.

Seamus Hynes, who owns the SUBWAY® store at Bishop Street in Tuam, and Chris Talbot who owns another store in Loughrea, and their staff came very close to seeing their respective stores named as the winner of the SUBWAY® chain’s coveted Store of the Year 2010 award having scored highly in a series of monthly inspections.

Atlantic College - a recipe for success

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes,” these were the wise words of Benjamin Disraeli, a former British prime minister and the first Earl of Beaconsfield, words that Atlantic College founder John Daly has taken to heart and used as inspiration to build what began as a small language school into an internationally recognised success story.

Galway employees could ‘win a day off work’

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

With January being officially Ireland’s most depressing month, what better way to remedy the winter blues than the prospect of a ‘Duvet Day’ for a great cause. To help support the work of Ireland’s almost 275,000 family carers, broadcasters and patrons of The Carers Association, Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy, have teamed up to launch Ireland’s first ‘Win a Day Off Work’ campaign. The campaign offers Galway employees the chance to win a ‘Duvet Day’ while raising vital funds for family carers.

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