Continuing Professional Development or CPD is the process of continual learning. Professionals undertake CPD to keep up to date with changes in their field, as well as learn new skills, and develop their knowledge or experience. Certain industries and professional bodies require or encourage their members to undertake a certain number of CPD hours every year […]
Business Management is a skill essential to harnessing, improving and reviewing performance for, or from within, your company/organisation. Business management is a continuous process of communication between a supervisor and an employee that occurs throughout the year, in support of accomplishing the strategic objectives of the organisation. The communication process includes clarifying expectations, setting objectives, […]
Irish Businesses can save thousands of euro on redundancy payments and recruitment costs by upskilling ‘at risk’ staff in coding, rather than making them redundant. That’s according to Dublin 8 based Wild Code School Dublin, who launched their part-time classroom-based coding courses, which run over five months just last week. Up to 46,000 jobs in […]
Jobs Expo is returning to Dublin’s Croke Park on Saturday, 15th October 2022 and runs from 10am-4pm. This careers fair will feature hundreds of active job opportunities and is the only careers exhibition of its type to feature free admission. Jobs Expo Dublin will provide job seekers with real opportunities to find new employment. What […]
In her popular series that looks at the trials and tribulations of a trainer, Monica Murphy helps a group of engineers to acquire presentation skills. Giving a presentation is one of the most useful skills anyone can have. The ability to apply it to numerous different situations in both a professional and personal capacity is one of […]
Ahead of the upcoming Virtual Recruitment jobs fair on 25th March, we profile Recruit.ie (formerly BCS Recruitment) and its success as a recruitment consultancy and event organiser. For over 10 years BCS Recruitment has been Ireland’s foremost specialist recruitment consultancy and event organiser and has led the way in putting skilled professionals directly in contact […]
A business relationship manager, or BRM, acts as a liaison between IT and other business units in the organisation. As departments increasingly rely on technology, organisations often find they need to establish stronger communication between IT and outside business units. Training in business relationships, typically for a senior-level professional, provides a wide range of experience, […]
Donald H Taylor takes a hard look at informal learning and asks if it is an opportunity or threat for learning and development professionals. For a while there everyone was talking about informal learning – at conferences, in books and on the internet. But what does informal learning mean? In particular, what does it mean […]
A new survey* covering different aspects of the experience of remote working in Ireland has suggested that most Irish workers are in favour of the concept of remote working continuing in some shape or form as we begin the transition towards a post-COVID-19 world of work. The COVID-19 crisis gave rise to a mass shift […]
If you’re starting a business you’re going to need a website. For a start a website is an opportunity to make a great first impression and is a great way to connect with your customers. And of course it will provide the platform for you to conduct your business, be it selling a product, providing […]