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On graduation

So, it's exam time. Which means that around about now thousands of knackered excitable university students are getting ready to launch themselves onto the job market. My own graduation was fifteen years ago. I like saying that because the fact that I took two years to decide what to do about university now makes it seem like I'm two years younger than I actually am. Top tip, handy hint there for A Level students - take a few years out, pretend you're younger than you are later in life. OK, maybe not the best top tip, handy hint I'll offer in this post, but you need to start somewhere. I've interviewed quite a few fresh faced graduates over the past 15 years or so. I've even employed a few. So I thought it may be useful to share some of my advice and the stuff I wish someone had told me as I readied myself to enter the world of work. Get over yourself That degree that you've just spent the past three or four years sweating blood and vodka for? The o