Kate Reardon

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.