Next Session: November 5th

Marie Devane from Devane Careers (www.devanecareers.ie) is going to provide and lead a competency based mac interview workshop for our next WIN session.

The Mac Interview Session will involve:
- Giving a background on competency based interviewing techniques
- Outline to you how the technique works
- Talking you through the STAR (Situation, Task, Actions, Results) model
- Choosing a role for the purpose of the mac interviews
- Together identifying the key competencies required for that role
- Pairing off the group
- Allocating a competency to each pair
- Conducting mac interviews within a given timeframe and criteria
- Discuss feedback, challenges and thoughts
- Document the key learning points and discuss

This will be very beneficial for those of you looking for work and having interviews as it is practical and you will have the ability to transfer the knowledge and skills learned to any real life situation. In addition to this, it will be a fun exercise for you to carry out.

Next WIN Session - October 22nd.

The WIN next session will feature Johnny Beirne who will cover what we need to know when using Facebook for business and also introduce us to Twitter.

The topics he will cover include:


· Comprehensive overview of Facebook.
· Setting up a Business Page
· Customising a Business Page including a landing page
· Best practice, tools and techniques
· Running and monitoring a Facebook Ad Campaign

Johnny Beirne is well recognised nationally for his work in Internet Innovation, Professional Networking and Social Media Marketing.


With over 15 years experience Johnny now delivers courses, workshops and Masterclasses across the island of Ireland in both the public and private sector.

In addition Johnny is also renowned for his online music service downloadmusic.ie which is Ireland’s largest independent online music store. This service continues to expand in the UK as textatrack.co.uk. The services have collectively sold over 100,000 tracks and have over 2,000 registered bands and singer/songwriters. The success and growth of both services is completely attributable to Social Media Marketing.

Johnny also won an Irish Internet Award in the category Mobile Innovation for downloadmusic.ie.

Next WIN Session - Project Management

Out next WIN speaker will be John Murphy, whom some of you may have already met at WIN sessions. John is an experienced Project Manager having worked with many blue chip companies here in Ireland and abroad. John is going to give a guest presentation on Project Management. The session outline is as follows:


- Overview of Project Management - What is it?
- Methodologies - Overview of PRINCE2
- Project Management Tools
- Roles in the team

This will an insighful and practical session and well worth coming along.