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Four principles to give your students careers success

Careers guidance
Jane Sunley, author of the new book It’s Never OK to Kiss the Interviewer, explains four key principles that will help your students onto the career superhighway.

By the end of June, an estimated six million students will have completed their A levels or GCSEs. By this point they will know what it will take to secure a place at their chosen university, which subjects they wish to continue at sixth form or college, where they are going on their gap year or which job or Apprenticeship they are going to apply for. However, how many of these have seriously considered what will make them happy? 

The most straightforward route to being happy and fulfilled is to do something you love. This might sound obvious, but so many of those stepping onto the career highway for the first time feel pressured into living up to the expectations of others or simply seek out and take the advice of others. 

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