Excel Recruitment are delighted to present our 2017 Hotel Salary Survey. 2016 was a phenomenal year for the Irish hospitality industry. Ireland’s food service industry experienced massive growth in 2016, reaching a record €7.5bn. 2016 was a record breaking year for...
Part 2: Interview Questions designed to trip you up! By CEO Barry Whelan Following on from Part 1 of Interview Questions designed to trip you up, CEO of Excel Recruitment takes you through more tricky questions and how best to answer them… The best interviewers...
Our Salary Survey 2017 is now available. This past year has been a curious time for the grocery industry with the uncertainty brought by Brexit and other global factors continuing to affect retailers. Fears over the minimum wage increase to €9.25 per hour which...
In the first of our new series, CEO of Excel Recruitment Barry Whelan takes you through some tricky interview questions designed to really test you and more importantly, how to ace them. In the below examples, the interviewer ask seemingly simple...
What’s your greatest weakness is one of the most common interview questions but one of the trickiest to answer. It seems strange to discuss your negatives in a situation that is all about selling yourself but your answer tells the interviewer a lot about you and can...
Keywords, buzzwords, jargon. Whatever you call them, we here at Excel, see hundreds of CVs every day and know how important it is that certain words make an appearance on your CV, and that others are avoided. The Good Verbs Verbs or ‘doing words’ are crucially...