Those were the actual words out of the mouth of a recruiter for a large, well-known firm, whilst trying to recruit me for a role a few...
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Inspiring career paths, personal stories of adversity in the workplace and a peak into working life in A Day in the Career Of…
I don’t know about you but I’ve been told a lot throughout my career not to burn any bridges. Perfectly sound advice. In theory. When moving on...
A Day in the Career of… Megan K. Fox, Filmmaker Megan K. Fox is the award-winning Irish writer/director of short films Slow Down (2015), GIRL (2016), Calling Home (2017) and The...
Focus Ireland has today launched a campaign under the hashtag #MovingDay to show the real lives and families behind the homeless figures. Highlighting the plight of Mums,...
“I go to work in pain and don’t mention it, feel sick and don’t complain – I don’t want them to think less of me for ‘always...
For companies looking to kick-start, or jump-start, their in-house CSR programmes, they would do well to look at Deloitte Ireland’s partnership with Nurture Africa. Far from being...
Listed as one of the UK’s Top Most Influential Women in Tech and recognised on the NI 40under40, Sheree Atcheson is a 27 year old, working as...
Jolie Niland had recently returned to her job as a Sales Executive at TV3 when her 8 month old son Jack was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia....
Tired of dating sites and with a knack for successfully matching friends, Mairead Loughman, Founder of A Table for Six, made the jump from finance into the...
Dorothy Day said, “Life is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair” and few people manage to get through it without some kind of mishap, tragedy or upset. The...
Upon my return to work after having my second son, I was invited to a workshop to discuss what my company could do to support women just...
The gender pay gap is not the only measure of gender inequality that’s getting worse in Ireland. The bulk of the domestic workload is still being carried...
A Day in the Career of…Katie Mythen Lynch, Co-Founder, FSTVLR & YAY Cork Don’t put all your eggs in one basket is a mantra to live by...
Ireland took a giant leap forward with the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in 2015, but many LGBTQ+ people in Ireland are still being discriminated against...
‘Seeing it to being it’ – that was the theory that spurred Jacqui Hurley on to become one of the countries leading Sports Presenters. Presenter, Olympic and...
The story of Margaret Cash and her 7 children caught the attention of the public, after photos of her children sleeping in their school uniforms on chairs...
For most women working through pregnancy, the biggest difficulties faced are proximity to the bathroom and squeezing into appropriate work wear. But, shockingly, for one third of...
A Day in the Career of… Karen O’ Reilly, Employmum Following a ‘meandering, random’ but highly successful career journey, Karen O’ Reilly found herself craving a new...
As a 42-year-old Managing Partner of a multi-million pound business, constantly travelling the world to service my clients, and with two kids to boot, I often get...
A physical touch. A boys club culture. A dick pic supposedly sent as a joke. Sexism comes in many insidious guises but for many who call it...