General
A Guide to Planning Your Career
- A Canadian guide with useful information and activities to help you through the career planning process
boards.ie Work and Jobs forum
- Forum for discussion of work related topics - includes job vacancies
CareesPortal.ie
- Ireland’s national career guidance resource, providing up‑to-date and relevant guidance materials to those needing or providing career guidance
Citizens' Information - Employment
- The statutory body which supports the provision of information, advice and advocacy on a broad range of public and social services
Irish Civil Service Competency Framework
- The competencies expected from all civil service grades
Qualifax
- Information on further and higher education, training courses and career pathways
Working in Europe
- Advice on getting a job in Europe from Eurodesk
Career Tests, Quizzes and Games
The Career Interest Game
- Intended to help you match your interests and skills with appropriate careers. It's on the University of Missouri website and so has an American bias, but it is quite detailed.
CDDQ
- The aim of this free, anonymous site (with no advertisements) is to assist you in making better career decisions through a number of questionnaires
JobTestPrep
- A variety of psychometric tests: numerical, verbal, abstract, inductive, personality, situational judgement tests, and many more besides. Some are free, some are not.
Holland Code Career Test
- Uses the same model as the Career Interest Game To show you which jobs will suit your interests, talents, and aptitude. Basic report is free and a detailed report (not recommended) costs $19
Prospects Career Planner
- Registration required. The career planner matches your skills, motivations and desires to a career that's perfect for you (their words). Site also has 400 different job profiles
CareersPortal.ie Self-assessment tests
- Some self-assessment exercises to get you thinking about yourself and your motivations
Skills Summary
- A free tool that will help you assess your career skills - including communication skills, interpersonal skills and much more
Company Research
The Complete Guide to Researching a Company
- Ooutline the steps you can take to thoroughly research a company before applying for a job or attending an interview
Kompass
- provides information on over 50,000 companies, so is a good place to start if you're doing research into potential employers
Glassdoor
- A website where current and former employees anonymously review companies
Cover Letters
How to write a cover letter
- Detailed advice from Jobs.ie
Free cover letter samples
- A variety of cover letter samples covering a number of different situations
Cover letter samples and templates
- Cove letter ideas for different job titles
CVs
GRETB CV Builder
- An online CV builder tool created by GRETB. Fill in the form and it will generate an MS Word (.docx) file of your CV that you can download. No personal information is stored.
CV templates from Irishjobs.ie
- 3 different CV templates depending on where you are in your career and a list of keywords and phrases to use based on jobs advertised on the site
7 tips for writing a great CV when you have no work experience
- No work experience? No problem! Some ideas to write a good CV without work experience
CV tips from Jobs.ie
- Lots of suggestions to improve your CV writing skills, including job specific CVs
Employability Skills
How to Identify and Develop Soft Skills
- A guide to help you single out and grow your soft skills
How to Improve Soft Skills
- Develop your communication skills, strengthen your interpersonal relationships, and demonstrate your professional enthusiasm to show your colleagues and supervisors that your soft skills are well-rounded.
Soft Skills & How You Can Improve Yours
Interviews
10 tips for interview success
- Although this was written for librarians, it can be applied to all sectors (just replace library with company or organisation) and it's too good not to share.
100 top job interview questions—be prepared
- A list of 100 common interview questions. You are unlikely to be asked all of them in one interview, but it might be an idea to prepare an answer for them
Effective interview skills
- How to sell and market yourself so that you perform to the best of your ability at interview
Grad Ireland - Interview questions
- Typical job interview questions, and tips on how to answer them
Total Jobs: How to handle competency-based interviews
- A comprehensive guide to coping with competency-based interviews
Job Application Forms
Job Application Tops and Tricks
- Expert tips and tricks for filling in job application forms
Competency-based application forms
- HSE guide to completing competency-based job application forms
The ultimate guide to completing an application form
- A comprehensive guide on how to successfully complete a job application form
Job Searching
Job hunt: 34 ways to get that role
- From LinkedIn to interview tips, what steps you can take to stand out from the crowd
How to organise a successful job hunt
- A quick guide to how to arrange a successful job hunt
An ex job-seeker’s guide to: how to find a job in Ireland
- An American immigrant's guide to finding a job in Ireland - useful for an outsider's perspective
Making a speculative application
- Advice on making speculative job applications
How to make the perfect LinkedIn profile and find your dream job
- Some advice on improving your LinkedIn profile
Social Media
10 Social Media Moves That Could Completely Sabotage Your Career
- Career experts share their best advice for cleaning up your social media profile
45 Things to Do on Social Media to Find Jobs
- The tips you need to use every social media platform out there to your advantage.
How to “clean up” your social media presence before a job search
- A look at what you can do to tidy your social media profiles before starting a job search
Social Media and Employability
A guide, from Aberdeen University, on how to use social media to become more employable
