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The Wiki Man

The CV trick that guarantees you an interview

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

Sometimes the opposite of a good idea is, as Niels Bohr said, another good idea. But the converse is also true. The opposite of a bad idea can easily be an even worse idea. Something like this seems to have happened with the expansion of British higher education.

When I left university in 1988, if you wanted a reasonable first job, a degree from a Russell Group university was probably sufficient but not necessary.

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