Your First Job

From the day that Barry Jackson was served by the girl at the supermarket check-out who told him she had a 2:1 degree and “This is the best job I can get,” he was on a mission to help young people to thrive when they enter the job market.

Never having worked in the education system, or with teenagers, he was  aware that, unless he carried out a lot of research, he was in danger of becoming a passionate and very plausible moron.

His research led him to interview corporate executives from companies including Rolls Royce, Land Rover-Jaguar and Barclay’s Bank. He has mock interviewed over 3,000 students and validated his programs in school classrooms.

This is how Adam Rooke, Professional Apprenticeships, Bristol describes his approach: “Most guidance on the subject takes the form of a list of how to do things. I loved the way you turned this approach on its head. By taking the opposite approach: how not to, you made the message humorous and all the more readable. We encounter these problems every time we do school mock interviews.”