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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kerry Eustice, Kate Taylor, Harriet Minter and Eliza Anyangwe

Careers Talk podcast: What influences our career choices?

Guests this week

We're joined by Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School and head of Interview Guru, a new video-based web resource for interview skills development.

News review

We have some tips for the 16 to 18 year olds that plan to skip university and jump straight into the job market, as revealed by a recent poll. We agree with a recent BBC School of Journalism blog by Josh Halliday that nepotism has been replaced by social networking, and profile the successes of budding journalists that have mastered personal branding. Plus why, in the week that businesses admit to replying on unpaid internships, you need to know your rights as an intern.

Dear Julian


Julian Linley aims to lift the spirits of one poor graduate who's spent an epic three years, fruitlessly looking for a job.

Jobs top 10

A chart full of gold-dust graduate positions, this week. Including a senior agent's assistant role at speaker bureau JLA and and accounts payable assistant at Net-A-Porter. For more details, and more jobs, hop over to Guardian Jobs.

Q&As coming up this week

Wednesday 11 May: Routes into chartered surveying
Thursday 12 May: Progressing your banking career

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