Get a Job Jumpstart from ICBE’s Begin Again
by Dave Dungan on October 7th, 2010
With the tough economic times more and more professionals are finding themselves out of a job. They are finding that there are little or no opportunities in their areas’ of expertise despite years of study and hard work. Most are also keen to adapt and re-skill in order to get back to work.
The Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE) have recently launched the Begin Againâ„¢ initiative aimed at getting unemployed professionals back into the workplace.
The programme offers a combination of work-placement, training and mentoring and focuses on maximising canditates current strengths, but also helping them to adapt to new roles.
They will be holding introductory meetings entitled ‘Jobs Jumpstart’ on Thursday 14th October in north and south Dublin.
- Stillorgan Park Hotel, 10am-12pm (South Dublin)
- Dublin Skylon Hotel, 2:30pm – 4:30pm (North Dublin)
These meetings aim to introduce young professionals to the Begin Again™ programme and show them the potential to get their careers back on track. The programme is free and you can retain your social welfare payments while you are with the host company. Over 20% of placements have secured new jobs since the start of the programme in August.
For more information on these events please visit the official Begin Againâ„¢ Facebook Page and these events have also beed added to LinkedIn here for North Dublin and here for South Dublin.
Begin Again Facebook and LinkedIn
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Hi Conor,
The Begin Again Facebook Page is setup and viewable here The events have been added to the events tab and also appear on the wall There is an add created with a preliminary budget of €25 per day that will show on Facebook for users in Dublin The events have also beed added to LinkedIn here (North Dublin) and here (South Dublin) Cheers –
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Connector Weekly News 24-30 May
by Sarai Fernandez on May 25th, 2010
Last week we launch Connector Clinic, as part of the “Digitise the Nation Week” run by the IIA. We have also appeared on joe.ie, with the second part of our “Diary of a start-up“.
On Friday 28th Connector will be hosting another training course, the Digital & Social Media Workshop. It will be at the CFCP in Dublin 2. Click here to book a place!
The same day Connector is having its 22nd event: Connector Comedy Cabaret for Charity at The Good Bits. This time we’ll have an excellent comedy line-up. Unlike other events, there will be a 10€ entrance fee which will raise funds for Beautiful Gate.
Besides all our activities, this week you cannot miss the 3rd Bizcamp Dublin, on Saturday, May 29th in the Guinness Storehouse.
And on wednesday 26th at 18.30, the Science Gallery will organise a conference called Burn Calories Not Carbon: Gavin Harte on Climate Change, to encourage all of us to do more exercise while protecting the enviroment.
The same day the PRII will be organising a forum called “Igniting the Leinster Rugby Brand“Â which will be examining the traditional and online strategies and tactics Leinster Rugby has put in place to build and connect with its supporter base including fans, sponsors and the local business community.
We’ll be back next week with more cool stuff!
Connector 2.0
by Sarai Fernandez on May 24th, 2010
At Connector we’re celebrating the blog’s second birthday this week. Yes, it has been two years since Conor started writing the Connector blog about all the interesting people and communities he met in Dublin. After that, the networking events came and some time later we started with the consulting and training services.
As a result of being so busy we’ve not being blogging so much, but with our 2nd birthday we want to commit to publish relevant content to share our knowledge of social media besides the new connections with people and communities. We are planning to start publishing webinars, videos and other training material that we hope you find useful.
We’ll give you more info later this week.
