Section 2. Getting a job.
These days it's hard enough to find a suitable job, let alone get as far as an interview.
Dozens of people every day scour the Situations Vacant columns of the press, send off their curriculum vitae or application form, and wait hopefully to be summoned for an interview.
Now this, apparently, is where a lot of people fall down, because of their inadequacy at completing their application forms, according to Judith Davison, author of Getting a job, a book which has recently come on the market.
This book, as the title suggests, is crammed full of useful tips on how to set about finding yourself work in these difficult times.
Our reporter, Christopher Shields, decided to look into this apparent inability of the British to sell themselves, and he spoke to Judith Davidson about it.
Very often a job application or a curriculum vitae will contain basic grammatical or careless spelling mistakes, even from university graduates.
Then those that do get as far as an interview become inarticulate or clumsy when they try to talk about themselves.
It doesn't matter how highly qualified or brilliant you may be,
if you come across as tongue-tied or gauche, your chances of getting a job are pretty small.
Judith Davidson lectures at a management training college for young men and women, most of whom have just graduated from university and gone there to take a crash course in management techniques.
One of the hardest thing is, not passing the course examinations successfully, but actually finding employment afterwards, so Judith now concentrates on helping trainees to set about doing just this.