Career sectors and Employment

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Legal
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Discussion on internships, jobs and graduate schemes for playing with numbers and cooking the books.

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Discussion around careers in the field of IT and technology, from programming to security.

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Discussion of careers, from surveying to planning, train driving to being a pilot.
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Armed Forces
Armed forces discussion.

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