Careers Guidance Fair and Seminar to be held in Belfast
November 14, 2012
Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge in association with Coláiste Feirste and Forbairt Feirste will organise a careers guidance fair and jobs seminar in Belfast on Thursday, 6th December 2012.
Coláiste Feirste and Forbairt Feirste have being hosting such large jobs fairs in the college in recent years and for the third year running the fair will once again link up the seminar.
Due to the success of these events both the jobs fair and seminar have combined forces once again this year and will take place in Coláiste Feirste.
The seminar will cater for second level students in Northern Ireland. ‘The Added Advantage of Irish’ is the theme of the seminar, and well-known personalities will speak on the advantages which the Irish language has afforded them in their chosen careers.
By linking the Careers Fair and seminar students will get a great opportunity to sit in on one hour of seminars and listen to guest speakers speak and then continue on and visit information stands.
Among the speakers will be the talented broadcaster Lynette Fay who works with BBC Raidió Uladh and who also works with TG4 on various programmes. Dónal McAnallen will give an insight into how he used the Irish language to his advantage as a cultural officer with the Ulster Council.
Gráinne Holland who hails from west Belfast and who is a removed Irish language and Gàidhlig singer will discuss her own experiences and insight into the doors the language has opened to her as an artist and the importance of a language as an identity when travelling abroad.
The event is expected to be both interesting and inspirational and it is hoped that it will motivate students to consider the Irish language when choosing their career paths.
Throughout the seminar students will have a chance to ask questions of the speakers, and to take part in what promises to be a lively debate.
If you are a secondary school teacher and would like to bring a class to the jobs fair and seminar or if you would like to have an information stand at this event please contact: Colma McKee
Tel: 0044 (0)28 90438 771 or e-mail: colma@forbairtfeirste.com
