Dr. Sean Boyle Career Guidance and Assessment

20/03/2025

Hey Naas Ball, you're really from Naas if you can read this sign.

29/01/2025

Get all your CAO questions ❓ answered this Thursday & Friday by heading to our Instagram Stories for our online Q&A. Our team will be online from 10am - 4pm this Thursday & Friday to help you finalise your CAO application.

Closing date for CAO applications is 5pm on Saturday, 1st February.

15/01/2025

These are really popular, so you'd wanna be quick to sign up.
Great skill to have.

Our Barista courses are back!!

Our student barista course is intended for school going students from transition year onwards who would like to gain experience working in a coffee shop.

Courses begin next Monday 20th January at 5pm and continue with dates throughout February and March.

To book your spot please see the link below.

https://www.shop.mcauleyplace.ie/Work-Shops/Barista-Training-Learn-Coffee-Making-Naas-Kildare

14/01/2025

This was definitely my 1st year college experience and my years as an academic advisor in colleges have taught me that I wasn't alone.

It's been a busy time this Christmas with 1st year college clients experiencing challenges with engaging and fitting in.

You're not alone,
Everyone else may look like they have their stuff together,
but they don't.

1st semester of 1st year is tough for many,
but it does get better for almost all students.

If it doesn't in 2nd Semester, talk to your:
academic advisor,
tutor,
lecturer,
Head of Year,
Student Counselling Service,
your friends,
your parents,
your family,
me.

And after all that,
if you're still not having fun in 1st year,
it's probably them, not you.
You might simply be in the wrong course or wrong college
and you need a new plan.

Fake it til you fake it.

10/12/2024

“We need to stop this national obsession with the Leaving Cert,” he added. “Look at each student holistically, learn who they are and what they want to do.”
Paul Crone, director of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals

Secondary School should be helping young people figure out who they are and who they'd like to be.

Not prepping them for a 1 time only 3 hour memory test of everything they have learned in the last 2 years.

Who you can be should not be determined by a memory test, it should be: who you are,
what you are interested in,
what skills you bring,
and what you'd like to do with them!

The ratio of school leavers who went to university this year has stalled, the Irish Independent Feeder Schools supplement confirms today.

19/11/2024

Hard advice to take but amazing when you do.

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
Roy T. Bennett - The Light in the Heart.

Hannah Willow

18/10/2024

The Guardian's article proposes that society's promotion that you should love your job is false and maybe even dangerous.

I've been lucky enough to have had careers that I've absolutely loved - being a business owner, a student and Career Psychologist. 😁

And a couple that I thought I'd love but didn't. 🤬

I don't know about having to love your job but I have been doing this long enough to recognise when a job is enjoyable or not.

In my experience, the jobs and careers I have enjoyed I now rate as having been successful and vice versa. Whether correlation is causation though, I don't know 😁

Read the full article at
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/14/the-big-idea-why-its-ok-not-to-love-your-job

20/09/2024

As the "Summer" winds down and we all hunker down for the routine of Autumn and Winter, I like to take stock and make plans for the year ahead. This checklist by the charity Action for Happiness gives a really nice structure I find.

28/08/2024

2pm today marks the launch of over 66,000 new career adventures.
Best of luck to all and please remember that while its a big step, its only one of many in your future.

Enjoy the celebrations and the well deserved plaudits for all your hard work class of LC2024!!!!🥳🥳🥳


For those in the next wave of adventurers 😁https://fb.watch/ueL__GS35n/

23/08/2024

01/03/2024

I will never not call out The Irish Times for their flagrant use of the term ' drop out' when referring to college students who discontinue their chosen course.

Stop labelling those who discover the course that they thought they would like is not for them as 'drop outs'.

Stop labelling those who discover that they can't successfully combine working enough hours in a minimum wage job to address the financial commitment of attending college with the academic demands of 20 - 30 hours of lectures each week.

None of my clients ever 'drop out'.
None of my students have ever been 'drop-outs'.

They simply discovered that the course wasn't for them, or that they needed to rethink their academic options due to personal or financial reasons.

And they have to admit to themselves or their parents or partners that they made a mistake. They also have to admit to them that they are now facing an uncertain future which can be very stressfull.

And the last thing they need is a national newspaper labelling them as 'drop-outs' under the guise of concern for their mental well being.

No-one 'drops out'.

They make the brave decision to leave an uncomfortable situation and in doing so expose themselves to the judgement of others.

They don't need your label and the definitely don't need your faux concern.

The Irish Times, you need to do better.