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Competency Based Interview Coaching
Understand the process and develop your competitive advantage to get the job you want ahead of the competition.
Competency Based Application Forms
The Application Forms is a key part of the process and developing good examples gives you a much better chance of success.
Career Coaching
Make the candidate’s market work for you and target a career that will give you what you need. There has never been a better time to give up complaining about your job for good!
World Class Competency Based Interview Coaching & Career Services
H-Training's mission is to support people to be better.
H-Training provides a range of services in Learning and Development, Competency-Based Interview Coaching, Career Coaching & Development, Career Guidance For Adults, Sales Training, Interview Panel Training and Strategic Consultancy. Founded in 1989 its clients range from Corporate tech giants to Local Authorities, An Garda Síochána and a range of SME’s.

Leadership & Coaching Programmes
Leadership Programmes have become run of the mill in recent years. This is something H-Training is striving to disrupt. In any competitive workplace, your ‘edge’ is the advantage you have over the competition. A qualification that helps you to apply learning directly to result will bolster you advantage...

Competency-Based Interview Coaching
Interview Coaching is one of H-Training’s key services. Our experience allows us to provide a nuanced approach to each client. We will guide you in how to best demonstrate the behaviours and competencies tailored to the role for which you are applying in order to ensure that you finish ahead of the field

Strategic
Consultancy
Having supported many organisations and senior managers realise their goals, H-Training is delighted to now offer organisations the opportunity to clarify their strategic direction, agree the proper methodologies for execution and develop teams that deliver in line with your vision...
Interview Coaching
Interview Coaching is one of H-Training’s key services. We are uniquely placed to offer specialist expertise to clients across the Civil Service, Multi-National Organisations and SMEs. Our clients range from local authorities to an Garda Síochána, as well as Tech heavyweights such as Twitter, Teamwork and Google...
CV & LinkedIn
In a world of constant change the CV remains a central pillar of recruitment. As more and more old school processes are rendered redundant and or less significant, the CV’s sustained relevance has hardly been noticed. However, coming up fast behind our old friend, the CV, is our newer one, LinkedIn...
Career Coaching
While many people climb the ladder in their careers, they often experience a nagging dissatisfaction. We have supported many clients to identify why they are feeling this way. Often, we find it is not as impossible as people think to make impactful changes in their careers. We work with people collaborative to reach higher...
Interview Board Training
H-Training’s interview board training is a comprehensive programme for experienced and new interview board members alike. We have operated extensively across a range of businesses, from SME’s to big tech and a large corner of the Irish Public Sector and Civil Service...
Corporate
Group Interview Training
H-Training’s Corporate Group interview training is a comprehensive programme for staff members wanting to progress in their careers. H-TRAINING has worked extensively across a range of businesses, from SME’s to big tech and a large corner of the Irish Public Sector...
Corporate
Leadership & Coaching Programmes
Leadership Programmes in Cork and Dublin have become run of the mill in recent years. This is something H-Training is striving to disrupt. In any competitive workplace, your ‘edge’ is the advantage you have...
Leverage 30 years of strategic management
and leadership Expertise

Ciarán Hourican
Managing Director
Ciarán is a Professional Workplace Coach and Mentor, with a passionate interest in developing others and a track record for realising excellence. He has worked extensively across both the private and public sectors and more recently in the area of tech and start ups. With a background in politics and leadership psychology Ciarán brings a very dynamic energy to leadership and coaching. He zeros in on the difficult conversations that people aren’t having and supports teams and organisations to better understand what they are capable of and how to collaborate on holding each other accountable.
How we assist individual,
group and business success
With a background in politics and leadership psychology Ciarán brings a very dynamic energy to leadership and coaching. His approach has garnered a lot of traction recently amongst some emerging tech start ups that he has assisted to develop strategically both in terms of leadership and methods for monitoring this progress such as OKRs.
By facilitating engagement through his ongoing fascination with political, business and social icons, Ciaran’s development approach is client-focused. He is an advocate for people but carefully facilitates them to accept more responsibility for the challenges they face.
In his capacity as Managing Director of H-Training Ciarán has assumed
strategic responsibility for growing and developing the business.
He has studied Software Development as part of H-Training’s strategic shift towards online delivery and content development and is a SaaS evangelist along with being deeply excited and passionate about the many opportunities he sees in an ever changing world where AI and Blockchain continue to revolutionize our turbulent world.
Ciarán holds a BA in English and Politics and a Masters in Political Leadership from University College Cork where he was awarded Best Dissertation and Politics MA Student of the Year. He is also a qualified Coach and Mentor with ILM and is currently upskilling in affiliate marketing and SEO . His greatest passion lies in pushing people to think bigger and not accept the limitations they impose upon themselves.

Margaret Collins
Senior Associate
Margaret Collins is a Human Resources Professional and Leadership facilitator with over twenty years’ experience. She is a registered Emotional Intelligence Coach and is passionate about helping others unlock their leadership potential. She has managed diverse teams and developed people to excel in their work roles.
Having achieved a first-class Masters in HRM in 2018, Margaret is now leveraging her extensive background in HR Strategy and Business Development, consulting in the design and, implementation, of HR and Talent Management initiatives along with interview coaching and Career Development

Elizabeth Kingston
Senior Associate
Elizabeth Kingston is a HR Consultant, EQi & EQ360 coach with over twenty years’ experience as a Senior Human Resources Manager working at a number of leading multinationals. She has considerable experience in the areas of industrial and employee relations, employment law, performance management, people development and training. Elizabeth’s particular areas of expertise are leadership development, employment legislation, change management, best practice competency-based performance management, one to one coaching and talent management. Elizabeth is a CIPD and IITD member.
Testimonial
Feedback from H-Training Clients
I feel very fortunate to have discovered H-Training. and the Great Margaret Collins - I have gone on a journey almost beyond belief, I have to give myself the odd pinch to see is this for real! 12 months ago if I thought that would be me, I'd have said 'What Wow!'
I have truly discovered myself because of her!
EHCareer Coaching Client
Ciaran's coaching and training gave me the tools to improve my team management skills. I was able to apply the coaching to real life, current issues in my team and work through solutions with Ciaran, which was far more beneficial than doing a course like this as part of a group. I would highly recommend anyone do this training. Your career will thank you for it.
Katriona HeaslipSenior Product Marketing Manager, Hubspot
Ciarán's approach to the particular needs of our professional services firm was exceptional. His guidance and feedback provided us with a thorough analysis of the areas in which we had room for improvement. He also road-mapped how our employees could develop personally and, in doing so, help us grow as an organisation
John O'DonogueManaging DIrector, Owens McCarthy Loss Assessors
Rarely am I wowed, but Ciarán clearly had a skill and passion for what he does. In just a couple hours I went from nervous and unsure to confident and composed. I learned that an interview is a performance, and I feel I stepped into that room as prepared as I could possibly be as a result of H-Training. My coaching session gave me a structure so I could coherently communicate the message I wanted to convey.
Dr Jamie DavisEmergency Medicine SpR at University Hospital Galway
Just to let you know I have been offered the position I applied for and am in the process of accepting it. Thanks so much for all your help and encouragement in coaching me for the interview - it was invaluable.
GWCivil Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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