It’s just not simple being a job-seeker these days it seems. This morning, yet again, on some radio show there was a guy talking about how his job-seeking routine drove him nearly to distraction. It got me to thinking about how did that all happen to the poor guy. But when you listen to all the… Continue reading »
Category: Job-seekers area
The word by people looking for jobs in the Midlands
CV Tips etc.
http://www.slideshare.net/pcosgrov/the-cpl-national-jobseeker-roadshow-2012
There’s been some requests for CV tips in recent days from registered job-seekers. The best advice going is available from CPL’s Job-seekers Roadshow. This guy doesn’t pull his punches. Very direct, to the point, no messing. To be fair though he’s only drawing off his own wealth of experience in the business, he’s not precious about his knowledge he doesn’t mind sharing his valuable insights. It’s really worth down-loading the slides so you can read his own notes at the bottom of the Powerpoint show.
Survive & Deal with Redundancy – Seminar in Tullamore Thursday 18th June
Offaly County Enterprise Board are organising an evening Seminar for those who have been made redundant or who are seeking to identify new career opportunities. The event takes place in the Tullamore Court Hotel on Thursday 18th June starting at 4:00pm running until 6:30. Registration from 3:45pm. The event will be followed by an exhibition…. Continue reading »
One day motivational seminar for the unemployed
We have been asked to publicise this series of events: http://www.kevinkellyunlimited.com/courses.php
www.startingtoday.ie
If you’re a Professional or Manager and have recently been made redundant, you could possibly do worse than check out www.startingtoday.ie . The lady who set up this networking conference spoke on Today FM and certainly sounds like she’s not taking her own redundancy lying down. And fair play to her, we hope it’s a… Continue reading »
Jobseekers: digital Ireland – a safe career bet for the future
If you’ve had enough already of silly season journalism and in particular the over-pessimistic predictions for workers’ futures here, you could do worse than read the Ditigal Ireland supplement released once per month by the Irish Independent (Thursday business edition produced by Silicon Republic). It provides a welcome ray of light through the gloom. While those… Continue reading »
How bad / good is it really? Putting it into some perspective
This seems to be the big question on people’s minds these days. While on the one hand some commentators seem to be delighted to be able to tell us how bad everything is, other’s just seem to be trotting out the mantra that there simply is no economic problem at all and the whole world might just be talking itself into… Continue reading »
New to the Midlands ?? – Here are some local job-seeker resources
If you’re looking for some good local printed listings of jobs, here are the main ones – Tullamore Tribune, Westmeath Examiner (Mullingar), Westmeath Independent (Athlone), Offaly Independent, Offaly Express (includes jobs in Laois), Westmeath Topic, Longford News, the Mullingar / Athlone Advertiser. Also National papers including Irish Independent on Thursdays, Irish Times on Fridays and… Continue reading »
job seeking tip – 4. Please don’t apply for loads of different “types” of jobs
Going back to your plan, consider the jobs that you have a decent chance of getting. Nothing annoys recruiters more than seeing the same cv coming in for many different jobs across the recruitment spectrum. When this happens the recruiter has no choice but to think that the candidate really hasn’t got a clue what… Continue reading »
Job seeking tip – 3. Your CV
Think of your cv as the agenda for the interviews which you will be attending later on in the process. Imagine someone who might be an experienced and tough interviewer and imagine the sorts of questions they could ask you about your cv. This will help you to focus on keeping it relevant, truthful and… Continue reading »