School careers advisors are like a “backwards Google” and the tools they use are “Orwellian” and “detached from reality”, or at least so said journalist and concerned parent James Panichi in this masthead last month.

He is both harsh and fair, right and wrong. The same goes for the hundred plus comments which generally echoed his complaints. There was particular opprobrium reserved for the use of online matching assessments.

Choosing one career early in life doesn’t mean we’ll end up doing it forever, so it’s important........

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