Career Direction and Development 2012: Lunchtime Lecture 25th July - The Importance of LinkedIn for Your Job Search

Tomorrows lecture as part of this series in Dublin City Libraries Career Direction and Development Programme might be of interest.
It is free but you do need to book:
http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Events/Pages/career_direction_development_2012.aspx


Dublin City Public Libraries’ Career Direction and Development Programme, now in its third year, is a key Dublin City Council employment support initiative, designed as a response to the vastly changed Irish employment and careers landscape. Through a range of events, including lectures, workshops, information stands, helpdesks, displays and user education programmes, it aims to provide concentrated support to the city’s residents, workers and visitors in sourcing employment opportunities, developing job-hunting skills, and adapting to career changes in the current dynamic environment.

Smart Accessible Mobile Challenge 2012

The Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards 2012 are hosting a €200k prize fund competition. It is calling on developers across Europe to design smartphone applications and services which consider the needs older people and people with disabilities.

In support of the competition, Vodafone, Mobile Monday, in conjunction with NDRC Inventorium have partnered with the NCBI Centre for Inclusive Technology and the Irish Internet Association (IIA) to run a two-day workshop to stimulate the generation of smartphone app ideas to submit to the competition for a share of €200k worth of prize money.

The two-day workshop will explore the challenges, problems and commercial opportunities that exist for developers and entrepreneurs when building smartphone applications that consider the needs of this significant demographic.

http://smartaccessiblemobile-estw.eventbrite.com/

Interesting Article on IT CV Preparation

An interesting article on CV preparation for IT professionals.
http://www.morganmckinley.ie/article/sample-cv-preparation-it-professionals?goback=%2Egde_70747_member_133457946

Overcoming Cognitive Bias Video - UCD Leaders Insight Series

A really interesting short  video on Overcoming Cognitive Bias by Dr. Sonpar
- part of the Leaders Insight Series from UCD Business Alumni
http://youtu.be/HuKtVrXMneE

More from the Leaders Insight Series at http://www.ucd.ie/businessalumni/leadersinsightsseries/
Some interesting ones available:

John Herlihy: Innovation, Customer Focus and eCommerce as drivers of Business Success

Niall FitzGerald KBE: Leadership characteristics and the role of CSR in business

John Teeling: Getting Ireland back on Track

Professor Mary Lambkin: Rebuilding Ireland’s Reputation

Professor Niamh Brennan:The Importance of Corporate Governance

Colm Lyon: Key Skills for Leading a Start-up

Dr Karan Sonpar: Overcoming Cognitive Biases

Martin Murphy: What makes a great leader

ACM Learning Webinar Now ON DEMAND: "2012 - Big Data: End of the World or End of BI?"

If you missed it live, catch ACM's FREE learning webinar on Business Intelligence and Big Data On Demand - http://learning.acm.org/webinar/bi

You need to register and you will be then taken to the presentation.

There is an intro at the start re ACM learning centre etc you need to get past before the webinar starts.


This webinar explores the emerging ecosystem and poses some interesting challenges for BI vendors and implementers in 2013... Assuming we’re all still here...

Duration: 60 minutes
What You’ll Learn About:

The meaning and emergence of the biz-tech ecosystem

The re-convergence of operational and informational systems

Data, information and knowledge – reopening Pandora’s Box

Millennials and team decision making – the whys and wherefores

Architectural models for 2013 and beyond

MSc Dissertations Due 16th July

All dissertations must be submitted to the School of Computing office on or before 1pm on Monday 16^th July.

You need to submit the following:

-         2 soft-bound dissertations

      -         The declaration page of each soft-bound dissertation must be signed

-         A CD with all supporting material (data sets, surveys, electronic copy of dissertation, etc)

-         Email the electronic copy of your dissertation in PDF format to me (brendan.tierney@dit.ie)

No extensions are possible to the submission date and time. 

See the Dissertation Student Handbook for details of page length, formatting etc.

I'm not available for the submission of dissertations.

Brendan