How to move from learner to earner
AS we wait longer than ever to be served in shops and restaurants, have one’s driving licence returned or the phone answered, today’s students are also finding that landing a job in cutthroat professions such as law, the media, marketing and finance has rarely been harder. School rhetoric about ‘producing resilient children who will thrive in careers which haven’t even been invented yet’ is all well and good, but must be supported by practical help to smooth transition from learners to earners.
University careers departments may be strapped for cash, but the good news is that independent schools have upped their game, partly in response to the Gatsby Charitable Foundation-commissioned Good Career Guidance report in 2013, which identified eight
