– One of the most fun and rewarding pieces of work that I do is helping young graduates get their first proper job after university. This is a hugely competitive field. There’ll be hundreds, sometimes thousands of people applying for a job at one of the big consulting groups, one of the big law firms, one of the big accountancy firms. And guess what? They’ve all got really good degrees. They’ve all got really good CVs. But getting through this three, four, five, or sometimes six-stage process is massive. There’s an away day, there’s a telephone interview, there’s all sorts of challenging things. But you know what’s amazing? It’s when I get the text or the phone call, one chappie, he got his job with KPMG. He’d come to me after he’d fallen at say, early barriers a few times. And he got his job at KPMG. And literally you could hear him on the phone. He was bouncing around like he was a sort of human pogo stick. And then I said, “What do your folks say?” He said, “I haven’t told them yet.” I’ve found you first. I’m gonna find them now. And then I spoke to his parents later. And they said, when he found them, he was like, “Yeah, I got the job, it was fun.” But that rush, that rush that those kids get when they get their first job, and they can now move out. Sometimes, of course, the parents are quite excited about that too.
