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Hello, I'm Michelle Hussain and this is the Best of Today podcast.

The last in our series of Christmas guest editors has been Jackie Wright,

one of the most senior Britons in the tech industry.

She is chief digital officer at Microsoft.

And for her program, she wanted to explore how we can better equip

children for the jobs of tomorrow, the jobs that often we don't even know will be needed.

As part of that, she went back to where she grew up, Tottenham in North London.

And near her own old school is Harris Academy, where Jackie went to ask A-level students what they thought

would make them employable.

I think as a person you can never stop learning, because there's always new things to learn

and experience this again. So I think even after we finish our time at school, there's

still things that we don't know about the outside world that we still need to get experience about.

So do you think you have everything you need to go out into the world and get a job?

I think one thing that you need that isn't just education is your social skills because we all have to interact with each other.

I feel like your social skills and who you know are very important when it comes into the

working life. Education can only take you so far and as well as learning soft skills at communication,

I feel like you need to have a good positive mindset within your work. So have dedication for your

work and passion for your work. The thing that struck me was how sophisticated and mature their answers were.

I don't think I would have answered like that when I was at school.

So I'm Lawrence Foley. I'm the executive principal of Harris Academy Tottenham.

We're an all-through school in the middle of Tottenham Hale.

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