When you lose your job and sense of self-worth

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Q: I I have been successful all my life, but the company for which I worked at middle management level has just closed down. I feel as if the rug has been pulled from under me. I can’t even begin to contemplate searching for a new job. I feel like I have lost all sense of my worth – as if the past 25 years of work and success has been for nothing. Do you have any suggestions? (JR, 46, email)

Dragon Duffy to launch mentoring programme in city next month

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

RTE Dragon and serial investor Gavin Duffy will officially launch a new mentoring initiative for small businesses at the SCCUL Mentworking Evening in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill on Wednesday May 2 at 5.30pm.

Take the stress out of networking

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

For most of us, we find networking events intimidating, stressful and downright scary. However, there are number of things that you can do to help you approach a networking event without the stress and ensure you achieve some success.

NUI Galway to host Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

NUI Galway will host the sixth Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) Conference in June with the event themed on the‘Poetics of Design, Narratives of Use’ focussingon the role that different artefacts, perspectives, methods and tools play in the design of new technologies.

Gradam award winners to be announced tonight

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Minister of State at the Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dinny McGinley T.D., will tonight announce the winners of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2012

The Elevator Pitch at WIN

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

When someone loses their job or when their business fails, they can quickly fall out of their business networks and in the most part start to fall out of their social networks. When this happens, people start to spend more and more time at home and can often fall into a cycle which leads to social isolation, damaging their confidence, self esteem and self belief. This means that it can become much more difficult for people to get back out into the business community, looking for work or simply seeing if they can do something with their own skills to find some work to pay the bills.

Part of our strategy at WIN is to ensure full member participation, working with each person to help build each individual’s confidence and self esteem, and a first step towards this is the Elevator Pitch.

Galway’s first app competition reveals talented coders at NUI Galway and GMIT

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

Judging the competition were NUI Galway’s John Breslin, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dr Jim Duggan, Information Technology, Dr Michael Lang, Business Information Systems, Clodagh Barry, Bright Ideas Initiative, and local company founders Paul Killoran, Ex Ordo, Michael FitzGerald, OnePageCRM and Dave Kelly, BeautyBoss. Professor Chris Curtin, Vice-President for Innovation and Performance at NUI Galway, presented the prizes.

Senior business figures allow their brains to be picked at SCCUL mentoring event

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

A new structured mentoring initiative where the expertise of leading business figures in Galway will be shared with small businesses was launched last Friday in Ballybane Enterprise Centre. Over 40 senior figures from the city’s business and commercial sector gathered for a briefing breakfast to launch SCCUL Mentors- a mentoring programme which will provide pro bono (free) access to business expertise and wisdom. The mentoring programme will be coordinated by SCCUL Enterprises and advice will provided in the key areas of Business planning, Finance, Sales, IT, Marketing & PR, Training and Development , HR Quality, and Research & Development

Your insightful questioning can produce better answers

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

Interviews are not just about candidates answering questions – they are about candidates asking questions too.

Every juncture in an interview is an opportunity to show how your skills, attributes and characteristics meet the employer’s needs. It is a point we have mentioned here before and we cannot stress it often enough.

Leading education figure is head of new Galway office for career training company

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

Patricia Maloney, who 22 years ago founded the first private college to provide a repeat Leaving Certificate programme in the west of Ireland, has teamed up with a leading career training company to establish its first Galway city office.

Galway’s first app competition reveals talented coders at NUI Galway and GMIT

Thu, Apr 05, 2012

The winners of CodeNinja, the app development competition for NUI Galway and GMIT students have been announced. First prize in the individual went to GMIT, with NUI Galway scooping first prize in the group category.

Feeding back the question in your answer

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

One of the approaches we recommend in interview training involves encouraging the candidate to feed back the very language they hear in the question.

So if the interviewer says: “We are looking for someone with excellent IT skills for this role, someone who can work their way around IT problems as they arise. How would you describe yourself in that regard?”

New Sinn Féin cumann for Athenry

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

SINN FÉIN has established a new cumann in Athenry recently with local man Gabe Cronnelly elected as cumann cathaoirleach.

Loughrea branch of Arthritis Ireland public meeting

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

The Loughrea branch of Arthritis Ireland Galway will hold a public meeting on Monday April 2 at 8pm in the Club Rea, next door to Fahy Glass.

Six Galway businesses are finalists in Ulster Bank awards

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Six leading Galway businesses will compete for awards at the national final of the 2011 Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards.

Six Galway businesses are finalists in Ulster Bank awards

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Six leading Galway businesses will compete for awards at the national final of the 2011 Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards.

The six companies, Atlantic Language Galway, Let’s Do It Global, Evergreen HealthFoods, Cold Chon, Galway Bay Seafoods, and Collins McNicholas Recruitment & HR Services Group, progressed to the national final after winning awards at the Connacht final of the competition last February.

NUI Galway’s Executive MBA programme turns forty

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

NUI Galway’s Executive MBA celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and a series of information evenings have been scheduled around the country for students wishing to join the programme in September 2012.

Technological healthcare at home is focus of new NUIG project’

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Technologies to facilitate the remote delivery of healthcare to patients in their own home is the focus of a new EU-funded project underway at NUI Galway.

Seminar for jobseekers on using web to build a business

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Have you an idea for a new business? Have you considered building your business using the internet? With the national focus on new work opportunities, Galway-based training company In Tuition are running an innovative training programme for jobseekers on building a successful business using the internet. A free introductory training workshop will take place in Ballybane Enterprise Centre on Tuesday 3rd April from 6.30 – 9.00pm.

Western Hygiene highly commended on national level

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Western Hygiene has been named as a winner of a Small Firms Association (SFA) 'Highly Commended' National Business Award in the Services category. Sponsored by Eircom, this prestigious award was presented to Terry Costelloe, sales manager, at the SFA awards ceremony in Trinity College Dining Hall recently.

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