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People change jobs 10-12 times throughout their careers and spend an average of 75,000 hours of their lives at work. Having a career that provides  satisfaction and fulfillment has a significant part to play overall happiness & wellbeing . Career Advice Ireland  provides the career advice and tools necessary to guide you towards a career that is personally, professionally and financially rewarding.

Career Direction

• Career consultation to uncover your skills, accomplishments, experience and professional ambitions
• Identify your strengths, areas for improvement & obstacles to achieving career goals.
• Determine the career options available to you and define a detailed career plan to achieve these.
• Review of marketable & transferable skills, where & what value these have in the marketplace
• Psychometric  evaluation to reinforce career decisions and assist with career development
• Draft career plan

CV  Preparation

• CV Consultation to uncover experience, education, skills, achievements & interests
• Joint development of an impactful, good quality curriculum vitae
• Strategically structure your CV to convert negatives into positives.
• Ensure unique selling points and key phrases are evident so your CV will be top of recruitment database searches
• CV Layout & drafting an impressive cover letter

Interview Skills

• Interview skills coaching including personal delivery, presentation & non-verbal communication.
• Mock interview followed by self analysis and honest objective feedback from a consultant .
• Types of interviews & how to successfully deliver –  Behavioral, standard, panel, telephone
• Answering interview questions using the STAR technique ( situation, task, action, result )  .
• How and where to research in advance of an interview
• How to manage questions where experience maybe lacking.

 Job Searching Techniques

• Uncovering the unadvertised job market ( 70% of roles are not advertised )
• Where to find organizations to proactively approach directly both online and offline
• Career Mentors PLUS: We will provide you with companies & contact names to target
• How & why you should network.  Formulating networking strategies that  will deliver.
• How to chose the best recruitment consultancies & the service standards you should expect
• Uncovering the unadvertised job market ( 70% of roles are unadvertised )
• Where to find organisations to target, both online and offline
• Web 2:0 Technologies – Using social media for job searching e.g http://www.linkedin.com
• Making the most of online recruitment technologies

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