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Careers Officer

noun

  1. a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp to school leavers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

My careers officer said: “Don’t be silly, Morris. There’s no such thing as a black photographer.”

When I was 15 and said I wanted to do photography, my careers officer told me I couldn’t.

My parents said: “You heard what your careers officer said. Why don’t you get yourself a job as an electrician?”

Discouraged at school from aspiring to university, she won a scholarship to read English at Oxford, where a careers officer solemnly informed her and her best friend: “The world, of course, is your oyster, girls: you can teach, you can nurse or you can sit the civil service exam.”

Including, presumably, his old careers officer.

From BBC

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