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Ditch your O levels

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Monday 19th January 2015

I’m a bit puzzled by the news that people over the age of 50 are changing O levels to GCSEs on their CVs in a bid to be considered for job vacancies. They are also, according to The Sunday Times, deleting their early job history in a bid to appear younger than they actually are. The thing that baffles me is that O levels were actually phased out in 1987, ...keep reading