Your Career, Your Choices

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

Q: As the song nearly says, ‘my boss didn’t like me anyway.’ My last job finished up badly last month because I felt the boss was a bully, but that’s a story for another day. In the end, I left – jumped before I was pushed, so to speak. Ironically, I got on exceptionally well with virtually everyone else in the management team, most notably with the number two woman in the company. I feel pretty sure she would speak well of me in a reference. Is it appropriate to put her down on my Curriculum Vitae as the person to contact, rather than the bosss? I have seen a job advertised that I think I can get. (TT, email)

Put your business in prime position with Prime Design

Thu, Apr 26, 2012

In today's competitive market, you have to speak directly to your target audience. You need to inspire trust, reliability and familiarity. You need to create a brand, but how? With something deceptively simple: an iconic logo design and a professional approach to your marketing materials.

Galway builders up for award at Dublin ceremony tonight

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Galway-based company, Passive House Builders, has been nominated for the prestigious ‘Green Residential Award’ at the National Green Awards 2012 being held tonight in Dublin.

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.

2012 marks the sixth year of the iHCI conference, and the first time it will be hosted in the west of Ireland. The particular emphasis of this year’s conference will be to look at the broad range of methods used to design, implement and evaluate technology, and to share stories of the design, deployment and evaluation of computing in context. Keynote speaker will be Professor Rod Stoneman, director of the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The speaker will be physiotherapist Deirdre Sreenan and those living with arthritis, their carers, and the general public are encouraged to attend.

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.

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.

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