Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
I lead the multi award winning Career Development & Employability team at National College of Ireland and am a qualified guidance professional, professional CV writer, experienced career coach and lecturer with over 25 years’ of career planning and recruitment experience in supporting clients to achieve their career goals and have an expert understanding of the Irish jobs market, personal branding and job search strategies. I help people secure jobs they love. Over the last 25 years I have worked with thousands of individuals from Graduate to Director level assisting them at different stages of the recruitment process and enabling them to clearly demonstrate unique skills to prospective employers. I hold the following qualifications and certifications: 🔳BA (Hons) Psychology 🔳MA in Social and Organisational Psychology 🔳Postgraduate Diploma in Career Education, Information and Guidance in Higher Education. 🔳EQ-I 2.0/EQ360 Certification 🔳Accredited Strengths Profile Practitioner 🔳Member of the British Association of CV Writers (BACVW) 🔳Trained Interview Panel Member 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬: 🔳Building Employability 🔳Module Development 🔳Career Coaching 🔳CV Writing 🔳 LinkedIn Strategy 🔳Interview coaching All views my own
•Leading, developing and managing a multi award winning Careers Service that provides a comprehensive programme of career development, career exploration, internships, job placement and career planning for over 3,000 NCI students annually that directly impacts graduate outcomes and meets key metrics, QS star and league tables. •Providing support to academic colleagues to embed employability in the curriculum and improve graduate outcomes at faculty and programme levels. •Partnering with key internal/external stakeholders regarding the student experience; driving innovation and expansion of resources and services with a focus on distinctiveness in resource service delivery. 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 📌2021 - Education Awards - Winner-- Career Impact Strategy 📌2021NCI Presidents Award for Impact 📌2021 National Teaching Hero Award 📌 2020 (Highly Commended) AHECS Award for Excellence in Employability 📌2019 Education Awards- Winner- Career Impact Strategy 📌2018 (Gold) AHECS Award for Excellence in Employability 📌2016 (Gold) AHECS Award for Excellence in Employability 📌2016 President’s Award recipient for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 📌2014 (Gold) AHECS Award for Excellence in Employability 📌 2013 (Gold) AHECS Award for Excellence in Employability 📌2012 (Bronze) AHECS Award for Excellence in Employability 📌2012 President’s Award recipient for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning 📌“National College of Ireland has one of the most consistent and best graduate employment records”. 📌 Sunday Times . National College of Ireland’s First Destination results are consistently higher than the National Average.
2006-2012 & 2018-2022 •Wrote numerous articles for the Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and Sunday Times on areas relating to the value of a degree, CAO offers, language deficiencies, the value of postgraduate qualifications, graduate recruitment and provided commentary to Irish Times, Metro, Sunday Business Post and national radio. •Managed the set-up and then developed and maintained the AHECS website. •Devised, organised and managed the creation of 29 you tube videos for gradireland and AHECS some of which have had over 40,000 views and are widely used by member services. •Set up and managed the Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube and Flickr accounts for AHECS. •Worked with designer in collaboration with Executive in rebranding AHECS. •Judge for the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Employer Awards 2013 for the categories Graduate Employer of the Year, Graduate Employee of the Year, Best Marketing Campaign.
● Recruiting Senior Director and Partner level Tax and Accounting professionals in both Dublin and London for SME, multi-national, Financial Services, Big 4 & Top 20 clients. ● On leaving ECHM was top fee earner in Dublin office, No 3 out of over 80 consultants in London, Dublin and Amsterdam and was joint first place in terms of placements achieved.