“I am an exceptionally friendly, enthusiastic and focused young woman with the ability to learn new skills with ease and rapidity, driven by a perfectionism that is reflected in all areas of my life.”
What would you think if you read this on a CV? Would you sigh wearily and think: “Yeah, yeah, they all say that?” (If The Apprentice has done nothing else, it has inoculated us against the self-puff needed to get a job.) Would it make any difference to know that the young woman had just graduated from Cambridge University with a 2:1 in modern languages? And then what if we threw into the mix that, as one of five children, she had got herself there from a ropey old Worcestershire comp