Recognising the rounded person: Ignored skills acknowledged

Once upon a time, when black-and-white televisions were generally rented and butter was spared, planning a career path was straightforward enough. Go to school, get your exams — solely academic exams — and eventually get a job.

Those certainties, for so long bulwarks of our social construct, no longer apply as the nature of work today and the nature of tomorrow’s work are more difficult than ever to define.