We are very pleased to announce that Travel Counsellors will be exhibiting as well as recruiting at Jobs Expo Cork. Our Cork event takes place on Saturday 25th November 2017 at Devere Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn, University College Cork.
Travel Counsellors is not like any other travel company. They put the customer back at the heart of their travel experience. As a result, they create the perfect travel experiences for every customer, every time. Furthermore, this approach has allowed Travel Counsellors to build an unrivalled customer satisfaction score and amazing repeat business.
If you’d like to sell travel with the world’s best-loved travel company, here’s what they can offer you.
At Travel Counsellors, they have been empowering people to start their own travel businesses for over 20 years. They are a very successful travel home-working company. They are also part of a major global group with operations in seven countries:
Travel Counsellors recruit only the most professional people who are dedicated and passionate about travel. In addition, they assist, encourage and support individuals to build and develop their very own travel businesses from home.
The business model is simple. Firstly, Travel Counsellors head office delivers an exceptional administration and back office support to its international network of Travel Counsellors. This, therefore, leaves you you free to deliver exceptional front-end customer service to your clients.
Never worked in travel before? Then join their Academy Training Programme to become a travel professional running your own business, with the help of an established company!
We are proud to announce that the Noel Group will be exhibiting as well as recruiting at Jobs Expo Cork. As one of Ireland's largest recruitment agencies, the Group has a number of specialisms and divisions. Here is a brief overview of these.
With over 27 years’ experience and an award-winning heritage, the Noel Group is one of Ireland’s leading recruitment agencies. The Group has industry specific brands and related service businesses, and they operate out of 12 locations nationwide. As a result, Noel Group is the ideal total recruitment solutions partner.
The Noel Group’s clients value the exceptional quality, reliability and cost effectiveness of their service, as well as their expert advice and innovative approach. Their specific company divisions provide temporary and permanent candidates – from shop floor to top floor. In addition, they offer a full range of industry specific training and HR services.
The Noel Group has grown to deliver these business solutions to sectors as diverse as hospitality, healthcare, retail, driving, industrial, accountancy, office, secretarial, sales, marketing, IT, banking and finance in Ireland.
The Group’s Hospitality division is Ireland’s premier hospitality recruitment brand. Noel Group have a proud reputation earned by consistently delivering excellence to clients and candidates. Their team of specialist consultants combine a hospitality background with an in-depth sectoral knowledge.
Noel Healthcare is Ireland’s only healthcare brand providing a complete clinical and non-clinical recruitment solution nationwide. They recruit for both the public to the private hospital sector as well as long stay to homestay care. Furthermore, their Healthcare Consultants place candidates for various disciplines. These include nurses, medical doctors, allied health professionals, social care workers, healthcare assistants, home care assistants, carers, and recovery support workers, as well as social carers and non-clinical executives.
The award-winning Noel Industrial supplies all levels of staff across the sector. Assignments range from placing one temporary member of staff for one day to hundreds of warehouse operatives on an on-going basis. The Group’s Industrial division offers on-site Account Managers (if required), interviews, monitoring performance, weekly payroll, upkeep of training records as well as starter packs to HR before going on-site.
Noel Driving is a specialist division of the Noel Group. They provide services to a broad range of distribution companies from SMEs to large multinationals. They supply both temporary and permanent experienced drivers, and also offer a full outsourced solution through their network of experienced service providers.
The Noel Group’s training arm, Skills Team Training Services, provide courses ranging from entry level compliance training to internationally recognised and accredited courses. These are across Industrial, Hospitality and Healthcare sectors and support both clients and candidates. Skills Team Training Services are available on-site as well as in classroom at one of the Group’s dedicated training centres in Dublin, Naas, Limerick, Waterford and Cork. They are also available online on their recently launched training website. All courses are available to book at www.skillsteam.ie
Skills Team Employment Services along with Seetec and the Department of Social Protection (DSP) delivers JobPath across Dublin. JobPath is a new employment stimulation initiative. It caters mainly for people who are long-term unemployed to support them to secure full-time paid employment or self-employment.
Skills Team Employment Services brings over 27 years of experience in recruitment, delivering excellence to clients as well as candidates. Noel Group has evolved from one of Ireland’s largest recruitment agencies and they are extremely proud of their reputation. Therefore, they aim to use their extensive recruitment experience to effect positive and sustainable change in the lives of those they support through JobPath.
Noel Construction is the specialist construction recruitment division of the Noel Group. They recruit for construction jobs in Dublin and across Ireland. This new division offers clients a range of construction staffing solutions. This includes permanent, temporary and contract positions in addition to providing in-house specialist training relevant to the construction sector.
The Noel Group’s newest addition is Noel Retail. This is a specialist retail recruitment provider, sourcing and placing quality candidates in retail businesses across the country. Noel Retail was recently shortlisted for ‘Best Recruitment Provider’ in the 2017 Checkout National Retail Supplier Awards.
Founded in 2002, Orange Recruitment is a name associated with recruitment excellence. Orange was the first agency to seek and receive ISO accreditation in Ireland and has successfully retained this accreditation ever since. Orange Recruitment offers a tailored recruitment and payroll solution services to the public sector and semi-state bodies as well as private companies.
Another relatively new recruitment brand to join the Noel Group portfolio is Ascension Executive Recruitment. This specialist brand places senior candidates across a range of industries. Ascension places a variety of roles across C-Suite, Director, Head of Function and Senior Management. As seasoned recruiters they have the depth and breadth of knowledge to understand what clients and candidates are looking for. Furthermore, their detailed face-to-face meetings ensure they closely match your requirements.
Established over 25 years ago in Blackrock, South Dublin (hence the name!), Southside Personnel is a boutique generalist recruitment agency. Their clients range from small local firms to large multinational organisations. They have a real focus on quality. Consequently, Southside works very closely with all their clients to get a real understanding of their requirements. As a result, their candidates are fully briefed prior to each and every assignment or job interview. This ensures that they are a close fit for the role.
Southside became part of the Noel Group in 2013. This has enabled to keep abreast of the best technology and systems the industry has to offer but maintain the unique and personal approach their clients and candidates have always enjoyed.
Noel Group’s vision is to lead the field in all their specialisms by being the first-choice recruitment provider for clients and candidates. They do this by continually innovating and creating flexible and creative solutions best suited to an increasingly competitive and demanding workplace.
People remain at the forefront of everything they do. The relationships forged in their 27-year history are at the core of their success. They treat everyone they come in contact – their employees, clients and candidates – with dignity and respect.
If there’s one part of a job search that most of us dislike, it’s the interview. If your CV is about selling your skills, the interview is about selling yourself. That’s what rattles many of us. Even people who are highly qualified in their field may need a little help presenting themselves in the best possible way – and dealing with their nerves.
That’s one area where a career coach can help. We asked five career coaches to give us their No. 1 interview tip. Here’s what they had to say.
Preparing for the interview is the most important aspect for a successful result. By preparing, I mean “getting into the zone”. We cannot expect to perform well at an interview by running from our current role into an interview. We need to take some time to clear our head and focus on what the role is about, understanding what skills will be needed and what aspects of our experience aligns best with the requirements of the job. We need to take time to practice speaking about our experience in a positive manner using the STAR (Situation, Task, Actions and Results) framework. Take 5-6 responsibilities or tasks that you have been involved in, write them out, memorise them and use them to demonstrate your abilities in certain situations. Be confident in your ability to do the job!
Reframe how you view the interview. The interview is not about you, it's all about them – the interviewers. The interviewers have an idea in their minds of what the ideal candidate is like. This includes attitude, communication style, experience and skill set. To prepare well for an interview – get to grips with what that ideal is by analysing the job description thoroughly, speaking to people who have any knowledge of the role, company and industry. Once you are clear of what is needed match yourself to their needs by pinpointing stories from your past that match the level of the job you are going for rather than the one you are in.
Patricia Tiernan, Leap Career and Personal Coaching
Remember that going into a job interview and having a job specification, is like having a cheat sheet for a maths exam. They will only ask you questions relevant to what’s on that piece of paper. Understanding and studying it, will allow you to be able to have your answers clear and thought out. In regards to your answers, always have an example to back up what you say. If you were the Interviewer and you asked a potential employee "Are you a good communicator" and they answered "Yes, I am", would you be happy with this? Or would you want more of a concrete example as to why they say "Yes"?
Keith Coburn, Coburn Guidance and CV Writing
My number 1 interview tip is to pick 5 key points about yourself that you want to get across at some stage of the interview. Make sure they describe who you really are, what you love to do and that they sell your particular skills or character traits. Make it personal and unique so that they remember you. Treat these 5 key points as your brand –if they were the only things the interviewer heard about you then they would know who you are, what you offer and would want to hire you.
Jennifer Davis, Capture HR
There are a few key Ingredients to increasing your chances of doing an X factor interview but the most important one in my experience is to understand how to effectively answer competency or behavioural-style questions. This question style is playing a bigger part in the format of interviews, especially in the public sector. As the name suggest, these questions are looking for real examples of a candidate’s present or past work experience demonstrating how they have acquired certain competencies or achievements.
Unless you have crystal ball, you don’t know what exactly they will ask but use the job spec to identify what competencies would be most important for that job. Even without a spec you can do this by searching for a spec of a similar role. Once you have the list of possible competencies, have a think about suitable examples which you could discuss on the day. At the interview it is vital you give a well-structured answer. I would suggest you answer using PAR method. The Problem or issue, the Action you took, and the end Result (how you solved the problem). Using this structure for any competency or open ended questions gives a very polished answer.
Orla Donagher, Interview Tutor
At Jobs Expo Career Clinic, attendees can meet face-to-face with career coaches. The coaches can help with issues such as CV preparation, interview skills and changing career. The Career Clinic is absolutely free of charge.
The next Jobs Expo takes place in Cork on Saturday 25 November at UCC’s Devere Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn. To get your free ticket for Jobs Expo Cork, Galway or Dublin, click here.
We are happy to announce that Ireland’s largest field marketing company, FMI, will be exhibiting at Jobs Expo Cork. The event takes place on 25th November 2017 at the UCC Devere Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn.
FMI regularly deploy over 850 field staff on a weekly basis across the entire island. The company has offices in Dublin, Belfast and Cork. In addition, their field team covers a multitude of channels across a number of sectors. These include FMCG, consumer electronics, drinks, DIY, hospitality, NGO, utility, telco and government. Because of their scale, they can work with a wide variety of client partners. Therefore FMI work with smaller artisan retail suppliers right up to large blue chip industry leaders. The company believes in developing long term partnerships with their clients and they also strive to deliver results continuously.
FMI offers a complete end-to-end field solution. This includes everything from back end support systems right the way through to each personalised customer interaction. By using their services, clients are sure of a consistency of quality and service.
FMI are founder members of the European Field Marketing Partnership. They are also members of bodies CCMA, MSPA Europe, Sales Institute Ireland, Marketing Institute of Ireland and Retail NI. Therefore, they constantly have an eye on current and upcoming trends both within Ireland and across Europe.
With FMI there is no one size fits all generic approach. They tailor a bespoke solution for their client partners. As a result, they ensure maximum results and return on investment at all times.
FMI has Irish roots, but they are an international business made up of over 50 nationalities. They believe that this diverse background gives them a unique perspective in Irish field marketing. Their cosmopolitan team allows them to bring energy and enthusiasm to the brands that they represent.
Those attending include An Garda Síochána, the National Ambulance Service, Laya Healthcare, Noel Group as well as the Government of the Isle of Man, plus the Office of Immigration and Multiculturalism of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, Abbvie, PE Global, and PhoneWatch amongst others.
The event will showcase up to 30 leading employers as well as educators and professional development experts and takes place on Saturday 25th November at UCC's Devere Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn.
In addition, Jobs Expo Cork has opportunities for anyone thinking of gaining international experience. Newfoundland and Labrador’s Office of Immigration and Multiculturalism will attend the event and highlighting jobs and immigration opportunities in Canada’s most easterly province. In addition, there are international jobs a little closer to home, with the Government of the Isle of Man showcasing opportunities on the island. Furthermore, international recruitment specialists, PE Global, will be recruiting for a variety of positions around the world.
“Cork’s economy is buoyant at the moment, and the Cork-Kerry region also has the lowest unemployment rate in Ireland. As a result, companies are in recruitment mode and we are really pleased with the range of jobs on offer at this November’s Jobs Expo Cork. We have some of amazing Irish as well as multinational exhibitors, including Abtran, PhoneWatch, Laya Healthcare and AbbVie. We are really delighted that both An Garda Síochána and the National Ambulance Service are taking part, offering people the chance to work in vital public service roles,” says Bronagh Cotter of event organiser Careers Unlimited.
Jobs Expo Cork will be divided into six separate zones to make it easier for attendants to find the companies and jobs that interest them the most. The dedicated areas include:
Jobs Expo Cork will also include free career advice as well as a series of industry seminars. The Career Clinic offers the chance for attendees to meet a team of professional careers coaches free of charge. The Agenda Stage will offer free, topical talks by industry insiders. These will include job-seeking skills, such as interview techniques and CV writing as well as opportunities with a number of the companies recruiting at the event. Jobseekers can register for free admission by visiting www.jobsexpo.ie
Date: Saturday 25th November 2017
Time: 10am – 4pm
Location: Devere Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn, UCC
Entrance fee: FREE
Register at: www.jobsexpo.ie/register
Bronagh Cotter
Jobs Expo Ireland
Tel: (01) 5311 280 / 087 646 3175
Email: bronagh@jobsexpo.ie
Lyndsay Donnelly
Business Development Executive. Jobs Expo Ireland
Tel: (01) 5311 280
Email: lyndsay@jobsexpo.ie
Fancy a new life in Canada? Newfoundland and Labrador’s Office of Immigration and Multiculturalism will be exhibiting at Jobs Expo Cork. The event takes place on Saturday 25th November at UCC's Devere Hall, Aras na Mac Leinn.
Newfoundland and Labrador is the most easterly province of Canada. It has two main landmasses: the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador to the northwest. Nearly all of the province’s residents speak English as their mother tongue. St. John's is the capital as well as the seat of government.
Humans have lived in Newfoundland and Labrador for about 9,000 years. The Maritime Archaic peoples were groups of sea-mammal hunters in the subarctic.
The oldest confirmed accounts of European contact date from a thousand years ago. According to the sagas, in the year 1001 Leif Ericson landed in three places to the west. Although it cannot be definitively proven, it seems that two of these were Newfoundland and Labrador. There is also archaeological evidence of a Norse settlement in the province.
Newfoundland was a colony and later a dominion of the United Kingdom. It became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949, as "Newfoundland." On December 6, 2001, the province's official name became Newfoundland and Labrador.
Traditional industries in the province include fishing. Fishing is still an important part of the economy, employing roughly 20,000 people. However, the province had a major energy and resources boom in the 21st century. In addition service industries, especially financial services, health care and public administration, are an important part of the province’s economy. Other significant industries are mining, oil production and manufacturing. Food production and brewing also contribute to the province’s economy.
Tourism is also a significant contributor to the province's economy. Tourism is most popular throughout the months of June–September, the warmest months of the year with the longest hours of daylight.